Tormarton

"TORMARTON, a parish in the lower division of Grumbalds Ash hundred, county Gloucester, 12½ miles N.W. of Chippenham, its post town, 4 E. of Chipping, Sodbury, and 5½ S.E. of Yate railway station. The village is on the old coach road from Bath to Gloucester. Stone of excellent quality is quarried. The soil is loamy, with a subsoil of oolite. The living is a rectory* with the vicarage of Acton-Turville and the curacy of West Littleton annexed, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £800. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an old structure, and has been restored at the expense of the present rector. The interior contains a brass of great antiquity, and a tomb of the founder. There is a chapel-of-ease at West Littleton. The parochial charities produce about £2 per annum. There are a mixed National school and an infant school. The Duke of Beaufort is lord of the manor and principal landowner."

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