North Nibley, Gloucestershire

Description
Nibley, North, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands under a knoll of the Cotswolds, 2 miles NW of Wotton-under-Edge, and 2 SW of Dursley; is supposed to have been the birthplace of Tyndale, the translator of the Bible, and has a post office under Dursley; money order and telegraph office, Dursley. A monument to Tyndale was erected in 1866 on Nibley Knoll, overlooking the village. It is a Gothic tower 111 feet liigh, surmounted by a cross. The parish comprises 3283 acres; population of the civil parish, 784; of the ecclesiastical, 801. The manor belongs to Lord Fitzhardinge, The right to the manor was fought between the Berkeleys and the Lisles in 1469 on Nibley Green. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £180 with residence. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is mainly Perpendicular, but the chancel was rebuilt in I860, and is in the Early English style. A N porch was erected in 1874, and a reredos in 1873. There are a chapel of ease and a Congregational chapel.