Description
Tirley, a parish in Gloucestershire, on the river Severn, 5 miles SW by S of Tewkesbury. It has a post office under Tewkesbury; money order office, Corse Lawn; telegraph office, Hasfield. The parish includes Haw hamlet. Acreage, 1924; population, 393. There is a parish council of five members and a chairman. A bridge spans the Severn at Haw, and was built in 1825 at a cost of £24,349. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £330 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is Decorated English, and was restored in 1893. There is a small Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
