Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RANDWICK

RANDWICK, a village and a parish in Stroud district, Gloucester. The village stands 1½ mile N W of Stroud r. station, and has a post-office under Stroud. The parish contains also the hamlet of Oxlinch, and is all within Stroud borough. Acres, 1, 260. Real property, £2, 702; of which £173 are in railway s. Pop. in 1851, 959; in 1861, 1,060. Houses, 234. The property is much sub-divided. The manor belongs to F. J. R. Barrow, Esq. Rylands, Blenheim House, and Longcourt are chief residences. Randwick Ash commands a fine view of thevale of Gloucester and the Malvern hills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £130.* Patron, the Vicar of Standish. The church is later English and Tudor; was restored the nave almost rebuilt in 1865; and has a tower. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, an endowed national school with £40 a year, and charities £50.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Randwick CP/Ch       Stroud RegD/PLU       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Randwick

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