Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire

Description
Hawkesbury, a tithing and a parish in Gloucestershire. The tithing lies under the Cotswolds, 3 miles W of the boundary with Wiltshire, 4 NW by N of Chipping Sodbnry, and 4 ESE of Wickwar station on the M.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office, of the name of Hawkesbury Upton, under Chippenham, and gave the title of Baron to the Earls of Liverpool. The parish contains also the tithings of Upton, Hillesley, Little Badminton, Sad-diewood Tresham, and Rillcott. Acreage, 9912; population. of the civil parish, 1795; of the ecclesiastical, 1250. Hillesley and Rillcott form a separate ecclesiastical parish. A fine tower, erected in 1846 to General Lord R. E. H. Somer-1 set, stands on the brow of a hill commanding a fine view. There are traces of a Roman road. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Tresham, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £220 with residence. The church is of various dates, chiefly Early English and Perpendicular; consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with a tower; and contains monuments of the Jenkinsons. There are Congregational, Baptist, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a Church of England chapel of ease at Tresham.