Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire

Description
Frampton-upon-Severn, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands near the river Severn and the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal, 5 miles W by N of Stonehouse, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office nnder Stonehouse. The parish includes the hamlet of Froombridge, and comprises 2323 acres; population, 856. The manor came into the possession of the Cliffords before the end of the llth century, and still remains in the-hands of that family. Frampton Court is a fine mansion erected in 1731. Much of the land lies lower than high tides in the Severn, and is protected from inundation by a bulwark, called the Hock Crib, constructed by the Earl of Berkeley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £195 with residence. The church dates from the beginning of the 14th century, and was restored in 1871; it contains an ancient tomb and memorials of the Clifford family. There is a Congregational chapel. The village green here is very fine and prettily situated, being half a mile long, Q1S with the road in the middle and cottages and houses each side of the green. It is called on the Tithe Map (t Fair Rosamond's Green," and there is a tradition that Fair Rosamond at one time lived in the old manor house.