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OLDBURY-ON-THE-HILL, a parish, with a village, in Tetbury district, Gloucester; among the Cotswolds, adjacent to Wilts, 5¾ miles S W of Tetbury, and 6¼ E of Wickwar r. station. Post-town, Chippenham. Acres, 1, 342. Real property, £2, 584. Pop. in 1851, 485; in 1861, 440. Houses, 105. The decrease of pop. was caused by the closing of a large boarding-school. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Didmarton, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Joint value, £387.* Patron, the Duke of Beaufort. The church is early English; and consists of nave and chancel, with a tower. There is a village school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Oldbury on the Hill Parish Tetbury Poor Law Union/Registration District Gloucestershire Ancient County |
| Place: | Oldbury on the Hill |
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