Hardwicke

"HARDWICKE, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of Whitstone, county Gloucester, 5 miles S. of Gloucester, its post town, and 1½ mile E. of Haresfield railway station. It is situated on the Gloucester and Bristol ship canal, and near the river Severn. It formerly belonged to the families of Botelers and Tryes. The land is partly in common, and the soil clay and blue lias. The living is a vicarage annexed to that of Standish, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is a stone edifice, with a tower containing five bells. It has monuments to the Tryes family. There is a parochial school for both sexes, also a reformatory school, under the superintendence of Thomas Barlvick Lloyd Baker, Esq., who is lord of the manor, and whose seat is Hardwicke Court, the principal residence."

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