Hatherop, Gloucestershire

Description
Hatherop, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands 3 miles N of Fairford, and 9 ENE of Ciren-cester. Post town, Fairford (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Coin St Aldwyn's. The parish includes also the hamlet of Netherton. Acreage, 2123; population, 307. The manor formerly belonged to Lacock Nunnery, and passed successively to the Blomer, Webb, and Ashley-Cooper families, Lord de Manley, the Maharajah Duleep Singh, and now belongs to the baronet family of Bazley. Hatherop Castle is a fine Tudor edifice, restored by Lord de Manley about 1850. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £350 with residence. The church was erected in the 15th century and rebuilt in 1855, and has a mortuary chapel with monument to Lady de Manley.