Haresfield, Gloucestershire

Description
Haresfield, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, 3 miles N of Stonehouse, and 4 1/2 NW of Stroud. The village lies at the foot of a hill known as Haresfield Beacon, a spur of the Cotswolds, in the vale of the Severn, 1 mile W of the Bristol and Gloucester main road which passes through the parish. There is a station on the M.R., and a post office under Stonehouse; money order office, Stonehouse; telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 2948; population, 458. Haresfield Court, an ancient manor house, was restored in 1869 and considerably enlarged in 1893. An ancient camp is at Broad Ridge. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is ancient, is supposed to have been built by the prior of Llanthony Abbey, and was repaired in 1840, and again in 1891. Near the church is an ancient moat in good condition, formerly the site of an old castle.