Wheatenhurst, Gloucestershire

Description
Wheatenhurst or Whitminster, a village, a parish, and the head of a poor-law union and petty sessional division, in Gloucestershire. The village stands near the Stroud Water Canal, the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal, and the river Severn, 3 miles NW of Stonehouse station on the M.R. and G.W.R., and 6 W by N of Stroud. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office, of the name of Whitminster, under Stonehouse. The parish comprises 1267 acres; population of the civil parish, 360; of the ecclesiastical, 357. There is a parish council consisting of six members. Whitminster House and Parklands are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £102. The church is Early English, and was restored in 1884. The workhouse is at Eastington.