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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"STRATTON, a parish in the hundred of Crowthorne, county Gloucester, 1½ mile N.W. of Cirencester, its post town. The village is situated on the line of the ancient Ermine Street, and on the high road between Cirencester and Gloucester. Brewing and malt making are carried on to some extent. The soil consists of stone brash, with a subsoil of limestone rock. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £388, in the patronage of New College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is old, and has a low slated tower rising from between the nave and chancel. There is a parochial school for both sexes."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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