Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BADGINGTON, or Badgendon

BADGINGTON, or Badgendon, a parish in Cirencester district, Gloucester; on the river-Churn and near Ermine-street, 4 miles N by W of Cirencester r. station. Post Town, North Cerney under Cirencester. Acres, 1,106. Real property, £1,604. Pop., 175. Houses, 40. The property is divided among a few. Remains exist of two entrenchments, which are supposed to have been thrown up in 556, on occasion of a battle between the Britons and the West Saxons. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £191. Patron, Jesus' College, Oxford. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bagendon AP/CP       Cirencester RegD/PLU       Gloucestershire AncC
Place names: BADGENDON     |     BADGINGTON     |     BADGINGTON OR BADGENDON
Place: Bagendon

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