Saul, Gloucestershire

Description
Saul, a parish, with a village, in Gloucestershire, on the river Severn, at the junction of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal with the Stroud Canal, 5 miles NW of Stonehouse. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stonehouse. Acreage, with Fretherne, 1140; population of the civil parish, 854; of the ecclesiastical, 412. The civil parish is called Fretherne-with-Saul, and for parish council purposes is divided into two wards, Fretherne having two members and Saul four. The living of Saul is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, the incumbent having the great tithes, but out of them having to keep the chancel in repair. Patron, the Vicar of Standish. The church is old, and was repaired and enlarged about 1850. There is a Congregational chapel.