Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GRETTON

GRETTON, a chapelry in Winchcombe parish, Gloucester; 2 miles NNW of Winchcombe, and 4½ SSE of Beckford r. station. Post town, Winchcombe, under Cheltenham. Real property, £2, 171. Pop. returned with the parish. The living is a p. curacy, Annexed to the vicarage of Winchcombe, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. There are a church and a Wesleyan chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Winchcombe AP/CP       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Gretton

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