Elmore

"ELMORE, a parish in the middle division of the hundred of Dudstone, county Gloucester, 5 miles S.W. of Gloucester, its post town, and about 4 miles distant from the railway station on the Great Western line. It is situated on the eastern bank of the river Severn. The greater portion of the land is meadow and pasture. A rock here obstructs the course of the Severn, and renders it un-navigable at low water. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £73. The church is an ancient stone structure with an embattled tower at the W. end. It is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and contains monuments of the Guise family. There are charities producing about £17 per annum, and a free school for both sexes. Elmore Court, the ancient seat of the Guise family, is a handsome Elizabethan mansion, situated on an eminence. Sir J. W. Guise is lord of the manor."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]