Description
Kemble, a parish in North Wilts, at the Cirencester Junction station of the Cheltenham and G.W.R., and on the Thames and Severn Canal adjacent to Gloucestershire, 91 miles from London, and 4 SW from Cirencester. It has a post and telegraph office under Cirencester; money order office, Cirencester. It includes the tithing of Ewen. Acreage, 3600; population, 482. An affluent of the Thames rises here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £250. The church has a lofty steeple, which was struck and rent by lightning in 1823, and again in 1872, and contains a monument of a Knight Templar and several other monuments; the whole church was rebuilt in 1877.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
