Description
Cainscross, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Stonehouse, Stroud, and Randwick parishes, Gloucestershire, 1 mile W of Stroud, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. The ecclesiastical parish includes Ebley, Dudbridge, and parts of Pakenhill and Westrip. Population, 2598. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £154 with residence. The church was erected in 1837, and has an embattled western tower. There is a Congregational chapel at Ebley, and a cloth-mill at Dudbridge.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
