Description
Blakeney, an ecclesiastical parish in Awre civil parish, Gloucestershire, on the W side of the Severn, 1 1/2 mile W of Awre station on the G.W.R., and 3 1/2 miles S by W of Newnham. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newnham, and fairs on 12 May and 12 Nov. It includes the tithings of Bledisloe, Etloe, and Hagloe. Population, 909. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £213. Patrons, the Haberdashers' Company. The church is modern. There are Congregational and Baptist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
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