Oxenhall, Gloucestershire

Description
Oxenhall, a parish in Gloucestershire, three-quarters of a mile NW of Newent, 2 1/4 miles E of the boundary with Herefordshire, and 9 NW of Gloucester. It was anciently called Horsenehal, and consists entirely of scattered dwellings. Post town, Newent, under Gloucester. Acreage, 2250; population of the civil parish, 218 ; of the ecclesiastical, 190. The manor, with The Furnace and most of the land, belongs to the Onslow family. Coal and ironstone have been found, but are not now worked. A tunnel of the Hereford and Gloucester Canal is here, 6576 feet long. Water of good quality and quantity is to be found in the parish, and the Gloucester Corporation are boring with a view to forming a reservoir in the neighbourhood, from which to supply the city of Gloucester. The first sod of the new waterworks was cut in 1894. A Roman settlement was at Cold Harbour. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £96 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church, dedicated to St Anne, consists of nave and chancel, with porch, and W tower and spire, contains an old leaden font, and, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1868.