Description
Addlestrop or Adlestrop, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, near the river Evenlode, 3 miles E of Stow-on-the-Wold, with a station on the G.W.R. Post town, Chipping Norton ; money order and telegraph office, Stow-on-the-Wold. Acreage, 1306; population, 164. The manor belonged to the abbey of Evesham, passed at the dissolution to Sir Thomas Leigh, and is now the property of Lord Leigh. Addlestrop House is a large and interesting mansion, partly of considerable antiquity, amid beautiful grounds laid out by Adey Repton. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Broadwell, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church was built in 1764, and is in good condition.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
