Temple Guiting

"TEMPLE GUITING, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, county Gloucester, 5 miles S.E. of Winchcombe. In the 13th century it belonged to the Knights Templars; and in the reign of Edward III. a fulling-mill was established in the village in connection with the cloth manufacture, then recently introduced. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture; and the parish contains the hamlets of Barton, Ford, and Kineton. The tithes were commuted for land and corn rents, under an Enclosure Act, in 1804. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £94, in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford, who are impropriators. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a small but handsome edifice. The charities produce £8 per annum, the endowment of the Sunday-school."

"BARTON, a hamlet in the parish of Temple Guiting, and hundred of Lower Kiftsgate, in the county of Gloucester, 4 miles from Winchcombe."

"FORD, a hamlet in the parish of Temple Guiting, lower division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, county Gloucester, 4 miles E. of Winchcombe."

"KINETON, a hamlet in the parish of Temple Guiting, county Gloucester, 4 miles S.E. of Winchcombe. It is situated on the Cotswold hills."

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