Description
Brimpsfield, a parish in Gloucestershire. The old Ermine Street was on the N side of it. It is 5 1/2 miles from Leckhampton station on the Oxford, Banbury, and Cheltenham line, and 6 1/2 miles from Cheltenham. It includes the hamlet of Caudle-Green and part of that of Birdlip. It has a post office under Gloucester; money order office, Pains-wick; and telegraph office at Birdlip. Acreage, 2729; population of the civil parish, 337; of the ecclesiastical with Granham, 654. A castle belonging to the Giffards stood here, and was destroyed by Edward II. A Benedictine priory also was here, a cell to Fontenay Abbey in Normandy. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £230 with residence. The church is-partly Norman, and is supposed to have originally formed portion of the priory; it has an embattled Perpendicular tower, which divides the chancel from the nave, and contains a piscina and some brasses. It was restored in 1883, when some fragmentary Maltese crosses were found below the soil adjoining it.
Villages, Hamlets, &c.
Birdlip, a hamlet divided between Cowley, Brimpsfield, and Witcombe parishes, Gloucestershire, near Witcombe Park, 6 1/2 miles SE by E of Gloucester, and 6 SW of Cheltenham. It has a post and telegraph office under Gloucester; money order office, Painswick. There is a Baptist chapel. Birdlip Hill, in the vicinity, is crossed by Ermine-street, and commands a noble view.
Caudle-Green, a hamlet in Brimpsfield parish, Gloucestershire, 1 1/2 mile S of Brimpsfield.
Villages, Hamlets, &c.
Birdlip, a hamlet divided between Cowley, Brimpsfield, and Witcombe parishes, Gloucestershire, near Witcombe Park, 6 1/2 miles SE by E of Gloucester, and 6 SW of Cheltenham. It has a post and telegraph office under Gloucester; money order office, Painswick. There is a Baptist chapel. Birdlip Hill, in the vicinity, is crossed by Ermine-street, and commands a noble view.
Caudle-Green, a hamlet in Brimpsfield parish, Gloucestershire, 1 1/2 mile S of Brimpsfield.
