Description
Twyning or Twining, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, 2 miles N of Tewkesbury. There is a post office of the name of Twyning Green, under Tewkesbury; money order and telegraph office, Bredon. Acreage, 3191; population, 389. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Twyning Park, Puckrup Hall, and the Manor House are the chief residences. An ancient camp is at Towbury. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £174 with residence. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is partly Norman, and was restored in 1868. It contains a fine alabaster tomb of 1577 and a Norman font.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
