Description

Badgworth, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands on a small tributary of the Severn, 2 miles E of Churchdown station on the M.R. and G.W., 3 SW of Leckhampton station on the G.W.R., and 4 SW of Cheltenham. The parish includes also the hamlets of Bentham, Little Shurdington, the Reddings, and Little Witcomb, and its post town is Cheltenham; money order and telegraph office, Churchdown. Acreage, 3901; population of the civil parish, 1096; of the ecclesiastical, 847. Badgworth Court and The Greenway are the chief residences. There is a mineral spring. The living is a vicarage, united with the curacy of Bentham, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, ?160. The church is interesting, partly Perpendicular and partly Decorated, and has been carefully restored. It has a chapel dedicated to St Margaret. The Decorated windows of this chapel are very fine. There is a square embattled tower and a south porch with an ancient oak door, and massive oak parish chests in the porch.