Upton St Leonard, Gloucestershire

Description
Upton St Leonard, a parish, with a village, in Gloucestershire, 3 miles SE of Gloucester. It has a post office under Gloucester; money order and telegraph office, Gloucester. Acreage, 2985; population of the civil parish, 1666; of the ecclesiastical, 835. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Bowden Hall, St Leonard's Court, and Kimsbury House are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is partly Norman, and was restored and the chancel rebuilt in 1850; the interior was reconstructed in 1889. There is a Wesleyan chapel. The cemetery for the city of Gloucester is in this civil parish.