ARLINGHAM is a parish and village, 1 mile and a half east from Newnham station on the South Wales railway, but separated from it by the river Severn, across which is a ferry at high water, 13 miles south-west from Gloucester, 8 north-west from Stonehouse, and 103 from London, in the Western division of the county, Upper Berkeley hundred, Wheatenhurst union, Newnham county court district, Gloucester rural deanery and archdeaconry, and Gloucester and Bristol diocese, situated on the navigable river Severn.

The church of St. Mary is a stone building in the Early English style: it has chancel, nave, porch, tower with 6 bells, and contains an organ: it was restored in 1868. The register dates from the year 1539. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £270, with residence, in the gift of John Sayer, esq. who owns the rectorial tithes, and held by the Rev. Thomas Holmes Ravenhill, M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford. The Wesleyans have a chapel here. There are charities of £40 yearly value; also the interest of £200 left by C. Vale esq. for an Infant school alternately with the towns of Warwick, Kenilworth, Stratford-on-Avon, and Wotton- under-Edge: Hodges Carter, esq. of Gloucester, left £200, the interest of which is given to persons not in receipt of parochial relief.

R.S.Holford, esq. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is loamy; subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat, and much land is in pasture. The area is 2.390 acres of land and 835 of water; rateable value £4,060; the population in 1871 was 697.

OVERTON is a hamlet, 1 mile and a half south-east.

Parish Clerk, John Ayland

POST OFFICE.—John Ayland, postmaster. Letters arrive from Stonehouse at 10.30 a.m.; dispatched at 3.30 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Frampton-on-Severn.

The National school is endowed with £40 yearly, left by John Yates, esq.: John Cock, master; Elizabeth Cock, mistress. The infant school was built in 1869: Miss Emily Fisher, mistress.

CARRIER TO STROUD.—George Phillips, Friday, returning same day.

Arlingham

RESIDENTS

Campbell Capt. John, The REddings

Carter Giles

Merrett John

Ravenhill Rev. Thomas Holmes, M.A. Vicarage

Ravenhill Rev. William Henry (curate), Vicarage

Sayer John, Slowwe house

COMMERCIAL

Burcher Daniel, farmer Church farm

Butt Ellen (Mrs.), farmer

Carter John, farmer, Puckpool farm

Greenway George, mason

Greenway James, mason

Greenway, Thomas, mason

Harper Charles, shopkeeper

Hayward Daniel, Red Lion

Hayward Robert, shopkeeper

Hayward Samuel, jun. New Inn

Hobbs William, blacksmith

Holder William, tailor

Jones Charles, beer retailer

Merrett Charles, farmer

Merrett Daniel, farmer

Merrett Henry, farmer, Wharf farm

Merrett Henry, jun. Farmer

Merrett James, farmer

Phillips Charles, barge owner

Phillips George, carrier & shopkeeper

Phipps Thomas, farmer

Turner Wm. Farmer, Slowwe farm

Vernon Eliza (Mrs.), & Hayward, farmers Lower Milton End farm

Vernon John, butcher & shopkeeper

Wathen John, carpenter

Withers George, farmer, Upper Milton End farm

Overton

Ballinger George, farmer

Browning Charles, farmer

Camm Charles, beer retailer

Davis John, farmer

Godsell Critchley, farmer, Wick farm

Hayward Joseph, farmer & beer retailer

Pitcher Daniel, farmer.