Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FRAMILODE

FRAMILODE, a village in Saul parish, and a chapelry in Saul, Arlingham, Eastington, Fretherne, Moreton-Valence, Standish, and Wheatenhurst parishes, Gloucester. The village stands at the influx of the river Frome or Stroudwater to the Severn, near the Gloucester and Hereford Junction railway, 4¼ miles NW by W of Stone-house r. station, and 8 SW of Gloucester. The chapelry was constitued in 1855; and its post town is Whitminster, under Stonehouse. Pop., 635. Houses, 140. Pop. of the part in Saul parish, 248. Houses, 57. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £78.* Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church was built in 1854. There is a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Framilode

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