Weston Subedge, Gloucestershire

Description
Weston-sub-Edge, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village is 2 miles SE of Honeybourne station on the G.W.R., and 2 W by N of Chipping Campden. It has a post and telegraph office under Broadway (R.S.O.); money order office, Campden. The parish includes also the hamlet of Norton, and comprises 2658 acres; population, 363. There is a parish council consisting of five members. In the parish The celebrated Dover's Hill Games were held annually in Whitsun Week, from the reign of James I. till 1852; the founder was Robert Dover, a local attorney. Norton House is the seat of the Earl of Harrowby. There was formerly a splendid moated residence belonging to the Gifford family. The bishops of Worcester were formerly rectors of the parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £451 with residence. The church is a large handsome Early English edifice, restored in 1861, and contains an ancient brass and some good memorial windows. There is a parish room with a library.