Description
Slimbridge, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands near the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal, 1 mile N of Coaley Junction station on the M.R., and 4 miles NNW of Dursley. It has a post office under Stonehouse; money order and telegraph office, Cam. The parish contains also the hamlets of Cambridge, Gossington, Moor End, and Shepherds Patch. Acreage, 3786; population, 872. There is a garish council consisting of seven members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; income derived from 344 acres of glebe with residence. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church was restored in 1846, and has a fine spire. There are Baptist and Congregational chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
