Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OAKRIDGE

OAKRIDGE, a village and a chapelry in Bisley parish, Gloucester. The village stands under the Cotswolds, near the Thames and Severn canal, 2 miles N E of Brimscombe r. station, and 4½ E by S of Stroud. The chapelry was constituted in 1849; and its post town is Bisley, under Stroud. Pop. in 1861, 875. Houses, 217. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £64.* Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is a modern edifice, in the early English style; and consists of nave and chancel, with porch and tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bisley CP/AP       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Oakridge

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