Description
Newington Bagpath, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, among the Cotswolds, 4 miles SE by E of Dursley station, and 5 1/2 E by N of Charfield station on the M.R., and 6 WNW of Tetbury. Post town, Wotton-under-Edge; money order and telegraph office, Kingscote. Acreage, 1975 ; population of the civil parish, 179 ; of the ecclesiastical, with Kingscote, 418. The manor belongs to the Kingscote family. Bagpath Court was formerly a mansion and is now a farm-house. Lasborough Park is the chief residence. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Kingscote, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £277. The church is Early English.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
