Colesbourne, Gloucestershire

Description
Colesbourne or Cowlesborne, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, among the Cotswolds, near the highest source of the river Thames, 3 miles E of Ermine Street, 5^ SE of Charlton Kings station and 6 SW of Andoversford station on the G.W.R., 7^ NW of Cirencester, 7 1/4 SSE of Cheltenham, and 3 SW of Wittington on the Midland and South-Westem Junction railway. Post town, Andoversford; money order office, North Cerney; telegraph office, Andoversford. Acreage, 2198 ; population, 242. Colesbourne Park, the seat of the Elwes family, is a modem Elizabethan mansion. Colesbourne Pen Hill is one of the highest summits in the county. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £102. The church is Ealry Perpendicular English, and has been restored.