Description
Tidenham, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands on the peninsula between the Severn and the Wye, 2 1/2 miles NNE of Chepstow. It has a post and money order office under Chepstow; telegraph office, Tutshill. The parish contains the hamlets of Woodcroft, Tutshill, Bishton, Stroat, Sedbury, and Wibdon, and the Chase district. Acreage, 6376 with 924 of adjacent tidal water and 626 of foreshore; population of civil parish, 1736; of ecclesiastical, 1617. There is a parish council of nine members and a chairman. Tidenham House, Tutshill House, and Sedbury Park are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £63. The church is Early English and Decorated, and contains a Norman font. The vicarage of Beachley is a separate benefice. There are chapels of ease at Tidenham Chase and Tutshill, and a Wesleyan chapel at Tidenham.
Villages, Hamlets, &c.
Beachley, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish in Tyden-liam parish, Gloucestershire, at the influx of the river Wye to the Severn, 4 miles SE of Chepstow, under which there is a post office. Population of the parish, 112. Beachley Lodge is a fine seat. Here is the Aust ferry across the Severn, which was considered an important military pass in all times of war, and here was the termination of Offa's Dyke, which can still be traced. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £75. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church was erected in 1833. The remains of an ancient cliapel, said to have been built in 47, are visible below high-water mark in the sea near the mouth of the Wye.
Bishton, a hamlet in Tidenham parish, Gloucestershire, 1 1/2 mile NE of Chepstow.
