Description
Ampney St Peter, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, contiguous to Ampney St Mary, 4 miles E of Cirencester. Area of parish, 618 acres; population, 189. The living is a rectory united with the vicarage of Ampney St Mary, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £140. The church is a small edifice, dating from the early portion of the 12th century, and was enlarged in 1879. There is a Norman north door, and a small rose window in the western tower. Half a mile from the village is Ranbury Camp, the remains of an extensive encampment, either of British or Roman origin.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
