FORTHAMPTON, a parish in Tewkesbury district, Gloucester; adjacent to the river Severn and to the boundary with Worcester, 2½ miles W of Tewkesbury r. station. It has a post office under Tewkesbury. Acres, 2, 440. Real property, with Swinley, £3, 945. Rated property of F. alone, £2, 807. Pop., 442. Houses, 96. The property is divided among a few. Forthampton Court belonged once to the abbots of Tewkesbury, and belongs now to J. Yorke, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Valne, £138. Patron, J. Yorke, Esq. The church is ancient, cruciform, and good.

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