Owlpen, Gloucestershire

Description
Owlpen or Oldpen, a parish in Gloucestershire, under the Cotswolds, 3 miles E of Dursley, and 3 1/2 S of Frocester station on the Bristol and Birmingham section of the M.R. Post town, Dursley; money order and telegraph office, Uley. Acreage, 811; population, 108. The property belonged anciently to the Earls of Berkeley; was given by one of them to the Owlpen s; passed by marriage first to the Daunts, next to the Stoughtons, and remains in the possession of the Stoughton family. Owlpen Park is the chief residence. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Uley, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church was rebuilt in 1828, and restored in 1875, and is in the Early English style. In 1894 some fine glass was introduced into the nave. The apse was beautifully decorated in costly mosaic and an organ erected.