Slimbridge

"SLIMBRIDGE, (or Slymbridge), a parish in the upper division of Berkeley hundred, county Gloucester, 4 miles N.W. of Dursley. Stonehouse is its post town. The parish, which is of large extent, is bounded on the N. by the river Severn, and is intersected by the Gloucester and Berkeley canal and the Gloucester and Bristol rail-road. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture. The manufacture of iron was formerly carried on, but has been discontinued, and the site of the works is now occupied by a saw-mill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £601, in the patronage of Magdalen College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, has a lefty spire. The parochial charities produce about £5 per annum. There is a place of worship for Independents."

"CAMBRIDGE, a hamlet in the parish of Slimbridge, hundred of Berkeley, in the county of Gloucester, 3 miles to the N. of Dursley. It was the scene of a battle in the reign of Edward the Elder between the Saxons and the Danes."

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