Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kingstanley

Kingstanley, par. and vil., Gloucestershire, on Stroudwater Canal, 3½ miles SW. of Stroud, 1563 ac., pop. 2117; P.O., T.O.; is a place of considerable antiquity, has some remains of a Roman camp, and is said to have been a residence of the Mercian kings. The inhabitants are for the most part engaged in the mfr. of cloth. Near the vil. is Kingstanley Park, seat.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kings Stanley CP/AP       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Kings Stanley

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