Sapperton, Gloucestershire

Description
Sapperton, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, 5 miles of Kemble Junction on the Kemble and Tetbury branch of the G.W.R., and 5 W by N of Cirencester, with a post and money order office under Cirencester; telegraph office, Coates. The parish includes the tithing of Frampton Mansell. Acreage, 3960; population of the civil parish, 498; of the ecclesiastical, 514. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The manor belongs to Earl Bathurst. Sapperton tunnel, on the G.W.R., is 1 3/4 mile long. Vestiges of an ancient camp exist, and many Roman coins were found in 1759. A sawmill is at Daneway. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £584 with residence. Patron, Earl Bathurst. The church is ancient, cruciform, and good, and has a tower and spire with three bells dated 1698. A chapel of ease is at Frampton Mansell, and was built by Earl Bathurst in 1844.