HAWLING, a village and a parish in Winchcomb district, Gloucester. The village lies under the Cotswolds, 4½ miles SE by S of Winchcomb, and 7½ W of Bourton-on-the-Water r. station; and has a post-office under Cheltenham. The parish comprises 1,846 acres. Real property, £2,091. Pop., 171. Houses, 40. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £100.* Patron, H. T. Hope, Esq. The church is Norman and good; and has a square embattled tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.

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