East Dean, Gloucestershire

Description
Dean, East, a township in Gloucestershire. Acreage, 13,265; population, 14,622. It consists of the eastern part of Dean Forest, and comprises Cinderford, Drybrook, Ruar-dean-Woodside, Ruardean Hill, Hairy Hill, Bilson, BUson Woodside, part of Lydbrook, Ruspidge, Soudley, Hinders Lane, Dockham, Lea Bailey, The Plump, and Pope's Hill. There are stations on the Severn and Wye, Severn Bridge and Monmouth railway at Cinderford and Drybrook Road, and post offices at Cinderford, Drybrook, and Ruspidge. The township is divided into three ecclesiastical districts, Holy Trinity, St John the Evangelist, and St Stephen's, Woodside. The living of Holy Trinity is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £290. Patron, the Crown. The church was built in 1816. The parish was constituted in 1842, and comprises Drybrook, Ruardean-Woodside, Ruardean Hill, Harry Hill, Nailbridge, The Plump, Lea Bailey, and Pope's Hill. The ecclesiastical parish of St John the Evangelist was constituted in 1844, and comprises Cinderford, Ruspidge, and Soudley. The living is a vicarage. Patron, the Crown; gross value, £270. The ecclesiastical parish of St Stephen's, Woodside, was constituted in 1880, and comprises Cinderford (part of), Bilson-Woodside, Hinders Lane, and Dockham. The living is a perpetual curacy; gross value, £250. Patron, the Church Patronage Society. There are Congregational, Baptist, Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Bible Christian chapels.