Amberley, Gloucestershire

Description
Amberley, a hamlet in Minchinhampton parish, and an ecclesiastical parish in Minchinhampton and Rod borough parishes, Gloucestershire. The hamlet stands near Wood-chester station on the Stonehouse and Nailsworth section of the M.R., 3 miles S of Stroud, which is the post town. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1840. Population, 1494. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value, £330. The church was erected in 1836, and a day school for 270 scholars was built in 1887. Amberley Court, Moor Court, Highlands, and the Culver House are the chief residences. Earl Russell takes thu title of Viscount from this place. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and in the neighbouring hamlet of St Chloe an endowed school. There are remains of a large Saxon camp in the neighbourhood.