Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HUCCLECOTE

HUCCLECOTE, a hamlet and a chapelry in Church down parish, Gloucestershire. The hamlet lies on Erminestreet, 2½ miles E by S of Gloucester r. station. Posttown, Gloucester. Acres, 1, 517. Real property, £3, 809. Pop., 460. The property is much subdivided. There are some brick works.—The chapelry is less extensive than the hamlet, and was constituted in 1851. Pop., 359. Houses, 71. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £63. * Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church has a bell turret, and is very good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and a national school.


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

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Feature Description: "a hamlet and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire Ancient County
Place: Hucclecote

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