Cam, Gloucestershire

Description
Cam, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on the Cam rivulet, under the Cotswolds, 1 mile N of Dursley, with a station on the Dursley branch of the M.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Dursley. Acreage of parish, 3304; population, 1782. Excellent cheese is produced. Cloth manufacture is carried on in a large establishment, and there are three flour mills. A battle was fought here in the time of Edward the Elder between the Danes and the Saxons. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol ; value, £168 with residence. The church, dedicated to St George, was erected in the time of Edward III., has Decorated and Perpendicular features, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles. The church at Lower Cam was erected in 1850, and an ecclesiastical district formed in 1888 called St Bartholomew's, with an endowment of £150. Patron of both livings, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels, an institute with reading and recreation rooms, and an endowed school for boys.