Description
Hill, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on the Severn, 4 miles N of Thombury. The village has a post office under Falfield (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Falfield. The parish comprises 2053 acres; population, 214. Hill Court, supposed to occupy the site of a nunnery of the 12th century, belongs to the Fust family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £140 with residence. The church is Early English, and has a mortuary chapel containing monuments of the Fust family. It is well fitted with handsome oak benches of the 14th century, in good preservation.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
