Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire

Description
Kingstanley or King's Stanley, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands on the Stroudwater Canal, near Ryeford station on the Nailsworth, Stroud, and Stonehonse branch of the M.R., 3 1/4 miles SW of Stroud. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stone-house. The parish comprises 1719 acres; population of the civil parish, 1982; of the ecclesiastical, 1245. The manor belonged to the Mercian kings, and passed to the families of Maltravers, Arundel, and others. Traces of a Roman camp are within the parish, and Roman altars and other relics have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, Jesus College, Cambridge. The church is good, partly Norman, and has an embattled tower. The parsonage is ancient, and has been restored and enlarged. The ecclesiastical parish of Selsley was constituted in 1863 out of this parish. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.