Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire

Description
Bourton-on-the-Water, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands on the river Windrush, and on the Fosse Way, 4 miles SSW of Stow-on-the-Wold, and has a station on the G.W.R., and a post office (R.S.O.) The parish comprises 2470 acres; population of the civil parish, 1127; of the ecclesiastical, including Olapton and Lower Slaughter, 1492. Near the village is a large Roman encampment, in which swords, coins, pottery, and other Roman relics have been found. There are flour-mills, and mailing is carried on. A cottage hospital was erected in 1870. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelries of Clapton and Lower Slaughter, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £313 with residence. Patron, Wadham College, Oxford. The church was originally Decorated, but was partially rebuilt in 1784, when a tower with dome and pinnacles was added; it was restored in 1875. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.