RODMARTON, a village and a parish in Cirencester district, Gloucester. The village stands 1½ mile N W of the Fosse way at the boundary with Wilts, 3 W of Tetbury-Road r. station, and 4¾ N E of Tetbury; and occupies the site of a Roman settlement, probably anadvanced post from Cirencester. A tesselated pavement and Roman coins were found at it in 1636. The parishincludes the tything of Calkerton, and comprises 4,012acres. Post-town, Cirencester. Real property, £4,022. Pop., 401. Houses, 92. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Miss Gordon. The manor-house, a quadrangular edifice of the 15th century, is now a farm-house. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £650.* Patron, the Rev. S. Lysons. The church is early English, was restored in 1862, and has a tower and spire. There are a national school, and charities £19. An old chapel in the hamlet of Tarlton, 1½ mile E, is at the manor-house there, and has been partially restored. S. and D. Lysons, authors of " Magna Britannia, " were natives.

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