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WHEATENHURST, or Whitminster, a village, a parish, and a district, in Gloucester. The village stands near the Stroud canal, the Gloucester and Berkeley canal, and the river Severn, 3 miles NW of Stonehouse r. station; and has a post-office, of the name of Whitminster, under Stonehouse.—The parish comprises 1,237 acres of land, and 10 of water. Real property, £2,949. Pop., 411. Houses, 92. The manor belongs partly to J.Bengough, Esq. Whitminster House is the seat of H. H. Wilton, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £135. Patron, J.Bengough, Esq. The church is early English, and was enlarged in 1842. There are an endowed school with £31 a year, and charities £32.—The district contains 14 parishes, and is divided into Haresfield and Frampton sub-districts. Acres, 24,471. Poor rates in 1863, £3,984. Pop. in 1851, 7,987; in 1861, 7,813. Houses, 1,721. Marriages in 1863, 34; births, 226,-of which 12 were illegitimate; deaths, 116, -of which 40 were at ages under 5 years, and 9 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 422; births, 2,497; deaths, 1,489. The places of worship, in 1851, were 15 of the Church of England, with 4,036 sittings; 2 of Independents, with 420 s.; 2 of Baptists, with 220 s.; 4 of Wesleyans, with 835 s.; and 1 undefined, with 50 s. The schools were 18 public day-schools, with 918 scholars; 14 private day-schools, with 222 s.; and 18 Sunday schools, with 1,165 s. The workhouse is in Eastington. .
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Whitminster CP/AP Wheatenhurst RegD/PLU Gloucestershire AncC |
| Place names: | WHEATENHURST | WHEATENHURST OR WHITMINSTER | WHITMINSTER |
| Place: | Whitminster |
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