Description
Guiting (or Guyting) Temple or Upper Guiting, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands among the Cotswolds, 5 miles NW of Notgrove station on the G.W.R., and 6 E by S of Winchcombe. The parish includes also the hamlets of Ford Hill, Trafalgar, Rineton Hill, and Bemborough. Post town, Winchcombe (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Stanway. Acreage, 6004; population, 443. The manor belongs to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £100 with residence. Patron, Christ College, Oxford. The church is ancient, has a massive Perpendicular tower, and was restored in 1885; it is dedicated to St Mary, dates from the time of the Rnights Templar (hence the name of the parish), consists of chancel, nave, north transept, north porch, and a massive embattled western tower, containing a clock and five bells.
Villages, Hamlets, &c.
Barton, a hamlet in Guyting-Temple parish, Gloucestershire, 4 miles E of Winchcomb.
