Elmstone, Gloucestershire

Description
Elmstone, a parish in Gloucestershire, containing the two townships of Harkwicke (commonly called Elmstone Hardwicke) and Uckington. Elmstone Hardwicke, the principal township, is 2 miles SW of Cleeve station on the M.R., and 4 NNW of Cheltenham. It has a post office under Cheltenham; money order office, Cheltenham; telegraph office, Coombe Hill. Acreage, 1746 ; population, 197. Uckington is 2 1/4 miles from Cheltenham; post, money order, and telegraph office, Cheltenham. Acreage, 852 ; population, 148. The living of Elmstone is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £239 with residence at Uckington. The church, in the old manor of Elmstone, of Saxon foundation, contains some Saxon and Norman remains, as well as Early English, and a fine Perpendicular tower. It was restored in 1878.