Awre, a tithing and a parish in Gloucestershire. The tithing lies on the river Severn, 3 1/2 miles SE of Newnham, and has a post office under Newnham, and a station on the G.W.R., about a mile from the village. Blakeney, about 2 miles SW, is the money order and telegraph office. There is a branch line of the G.W.R. for goods and minerals from Awre into the Forest of Dean. The tithings of Blakeney, Bledisloe, Hagloe, and Etioe, which are included in this parish for civil purposes, were formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1877. Area of Awre, 4313 acres of land and 1859 of water; population of the civil parish, 1148; of the ecclesiastical, 239. Part of the land has been washed away by the Severn. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £230. Patron, the Haberdashers' Company. The church is ancient, in the Early English and Decorated styles, and was restored in 1875. It has an embattled tower, and some stained glass windows. In the churchyard is a yew tree said to be over 1000 years old. Oaklands Park is the chief residence. Stemhold, one of the authors of the English metrical version of the Psalms, was a native. Stemhold and Hopkins both lived in this parish about 1550, the former at the Hawfield, the latter at the Woodend, by the river Severn, in a house which has now been washed away by the encroachments of the river. The Psalms were first sung in English in Awre church.
