Rodmarton, Gloucestershire

Description
Rodmarton, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands 1 1/2 mile NW of the Fosse Way at the boundary with Wiltshire, 1 1/2 NE of Culkerton station on the Kemble and Tetbury branch of the G.W.R., and 4 1/2 miles NE of Tetbury; and occupies the site of a Roman settlement, probably an advanced post from Cirencester. A tessellated pavement and Boman coins were found at it in 1636. It has a post office under Cirencester; money order office, Sapperton; telegraph office, Coates. The parish includes the tithing of Culkerton and part of the hamlet of Tarlton, and comprises 4145 acres; population, 412. The manor house, a quadrangular edifice of the 15th century, is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £120. The church is Early English, and was restored in 1862 and again in 1884. It contains many tablets and brasses. An old chapel in the hamlet of Tarlton, 1 1/2 mile E, is at the manor house there, and has been partially restored. S. and D. Lysons, authors of " Magna Britannia," were natives.