Rodborough, Gloucestershire

Description
Rodborough, a large and scattered village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands near Stroud river, three-quarters of a mile SSW of Stroud. It has a post office under Stroud; money order and telegraph office, Stroud. The parish comprises 1317 acres; population of the civil parish, 2955; of the ecclesiastical, 2554. There are several good residences, and some woollen-cloth mills and dyeworks. Rodborough Hill commands an extensive and very fine view, and has remains of a Roman camp. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £280 with residence. The church, excepting the tower (which is 500 years old), was rebuilt in 1842, and is in a florid Later English style. A lectureship is attached to the church, and is in the gift of Brasenose College, Oxford. Portions of the parish are included in the ecclesiastical parishes of Brimscombe and Amberley. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.