Churchdown, Gloucestershire

Description
Churchdown, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands near Ermine Street, under the Cotswolds, 4 miles E of Gloucester. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Gloucester, a station on the M.R. and G.W.R., and a police station. The parish includes also part of the hamlet of Hucclecote. Acreage, 2692; population of the civil parish, 750 ; of the ecclesiastical, 805. Church-down Hill, an outlier of the Cotswolds, is 580 feet high, and has quarries and the remains of an earthwork on the summit, The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £300. Patron, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church is situated on the summit of the hill, and contains Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Transition, and Perpendicular work. It was restored in 1884. There is a Wesleyan chapel.