Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire

Description
Brookthorpe or Brookthrop or Brockthrop, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, under the Wolds, 2 1/2 miles NNE of Haresfield station on the M.R., and 4 miles S of Gloucester. There is a post office under Gloucester, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of the civil parish, 1094; population, 180 ; of the ecclesiastical with Whaddon, 426. The living is a vicarage united with the vicarage of Whaddon and part of Tuffley in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £254 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester, two turns, and the Neeld family, one turn. The church is Early English, with a saddle-back tower, and has on the cornice of the south porch a curious inscription relating to the execution of Charles I.