Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HATHERLEY-DOWN

HATHERLEY-DOWN, a parish in the district and county of Gloucester; on a small affluent of the Severn, 3¾ miles NE by N of Gloucester city and r. station. Post town, Gloucester. Acres, 930. Real property, £1, 632. Pop., 192. Houses, 41. The property is divided among a few. Hatherley House is the seat of A. G. Jones, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £320.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was rebuilt in 1860; and is in the early decorated English style. There are a national school, and charities £22.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Down Hatherley

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