Kingswood, Gloucestershire

Description
Kingswood, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands 1 mile NE of Charfield station on the M.R., and 1 SW of Wootton-under-Edge, carries on manufactures in woollen cloth, and has a post and money order office under Wootton-under-Edge; telegraph office, Wootton-under-Edge. Acreage of parish, 2365; population, 938. The land anciently formed part of an extensive forest, superintended by the constable of Bristol Castle. A Cistercian priory, a cell to Tintem Abbey, was founded here in 1139 by William de Berkeley, was removed for a time to Rodmarton and Tetbnry, was refounded here in 1170, was given by Queen Elizabeth to the Thynnes, and remains of it still exist near the parish church. Woollen cloth, silk, elastic, and pins are manufactured. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value,, £180 with residence. The church of the Holy Trinity, built and consecrated in 1723, renovated and restored in 1872, comprises porch, nave, N aisle, chancel, organ chamber, vestry, and tower, with clock and peal of eight bells, and contains monuments of the Berkeleys and others. There is a Congregational chapel.