Stanway, Gloucestershire

Description
Stanway, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village is 4 miles NE of Winchcomb, and 6 E of Beckford station on the M.R. It has a post and telegraph office under Winchcomb (R.S.O.); money order office, Winchcomb. The parish includes the hamlets of Wood Stanway, Taddington, and Hornsleasow. Acreage, 3860; population of the civil parish, 325; of the ecclesiastical, 310. The manor belonged to Tewkesbury Abbey, and passed at the Dissolution to the Tracy family. It belongs now to the Earl of Wemyss and March. Stanway House, the residence of his son, Lord Elcho, was built in 1626 by Sir Paul Tracy, and has a gateway designed by Inigo Jones. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Wemyss and March. The church is Perpendicular, and consists of nave, chancel, and an embattled tower. Dover, who instituted the once famous " Cotswold Games," is buried in the churchyard.