Description
Kelmscott, a township chapelry in Bradwell parish, Oxford, on the river Thames, at the boundary with Berks and Gloucester, 2 1/2 miles E by S from Lechlade station on the G.W.R., and 4 NW from Farringdon. Post town, Swindon; money order and telegraph office, Lechlade. Acreage, 1037; population, 145. The manor, with Kelmscott House, a fine Tudor mansion, belongs to the Hobbs family. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Bradwell, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is an ancient cruciform building of stone in mixed styles.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
