Description
Whiteshill, an ecclesiastical parish in Stroud parish, Gloucestershire, 1 mile NW of Stroud. It was constituted in 1843, and it contains Bread Street and Ruscombe hamlets, and part of Pagenhill. Population, 1695. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. It has a post office under Stroud; money order and telegraph office, Stroud. The living is a titular vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church was built in 1841 and enlarged in 1881. There is a Congregational chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
