RODBOROUGH, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Stroud district, Gloucester. The village stands near Stroud river, 1 mile S S W of Stroud r. station; and is a seat of petty-sessions. The parish comprises 1, 310 acres. Post-town, Stroud, under Gloucester. Real property, £12,063. Pop., 2, 165. Houses, 492. The property is much divided. The manor belongs to Earl Russell. There are several good residences, and some woollen-cloth mills and dye-works. R. Hill commandsan extensive and very fine view, and has remains of a Roman camp. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £300.* Patron, P.jose, Esq. The church, excepting the tower, was re-built in 1842, and is in a florid later English style. Amorning lectureship belongs to the church, and is in thegift of Brasenose college, Oxford. Portions of the parishare included in the chapelries of Brimscombe and Am-berley. There are an Independent ehapel, two endowed schools with £85 a year, and a British school. Clutter-buck, a blind mechanical genius, born in 1638, was anative.—The sub-district contains also two other parishes. Acres, 4, 192. Pop., 5, 819. Houses, 1, 169.

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