Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ELKSTONE

ELKSTONE, a parish in Cirencester district, Gloucester; near Ermine-street, 7½ miles NNW of Cirencester r. station. Post town, Brimpsfield, under Stroud. Acres, 2, 058. Real property, £2, 261. Pop., 320. Houses, 70. The property is divided among a few. Stone is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £360.* Patron, the Hon. R. K. Craven. The church is very ancient, but good; is partly early English; and has a fine Norman door.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Elkstone AP/CP       Cirencester RegD/PLU       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Elkstone

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