Siddington

"SIDDINGTON, a parish in the hundred of Crowthorne, county Gloucester, 2 miles S.E. of Cirencester, its post town, and 8 from Cricklade. The Great Western railway, which passes through the parish, has a branch from Kemble to Cirencester. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the road from Cirencester to Wootton-Bassett, near the river Churn and the Thames and Severn canal. It was formerly celebrated for the manufacture of pottery. The soil consists of stonebrash and clay, upon a subsoil of rock, and stone of a bluish colour, and very durable, is quarried for paving.

The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £440, with the discharged vicarage of St. Peter annexed, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a stone structure, with a tower containing two bells. Bishop Bull was rector of this parish. The parochial charities produce about £8 per annum. There is a National school for both sexes. The Independents have a chapel. The Earl Bathurst is lord of the manor."

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