Description
Duntisborne-Abbotts, a village and parish in Gloucestershire, near Ermine Street, 6miles NNW of Cirencester. The parish contains the tithing of Duntisborne-Leer, and has a post office under Cirencester; money order and telegraph office, Stratton. Acreage, 2332; population, 285. The manor belonged to Gloucester Abbey. Duntisborne House is the chief residence. Several barrows exist in the neighbourhood, a memorial of a conflict with the Danes. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £152 with residence. The church is Early English, and has been restored. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
