Description
Quenington, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands on the Fosse Way and the river Coin, 2 miles N of Fairford, and 8 E by N of Cirencester, and has a post office under Fairford (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Coin St Aldwyn's. The parish comprises 1996 acres; population, 366. There is a parish council consisting of five members. A preceptory of Knights Hospitallers was founded here before the time of King John, and went to the Kingstones. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £140 with residence. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1882. It has two Norman doorways of remarkably rich design. There are Congregational and Plymouth Brethren chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
