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Witcombe, or Whitcombe, or Witcombe Magna, is a township, parish and village, 5 miles south-east from Gloucester railway station, 6 south from Cheltenham, and 5 north from Painswick, in Dudstone and King’s Barton Hundred, Cheltenham Union, Gloucester Archdeaconry, and Gloucester and Bristol bishopric. It is seated on the road from Gloucester to Cirencester. The church is an old building; has tower, aisle, porch, chancel, 2 bells and font. The living is a rectory, worth £100 yearly, with residence, in the gift of Lady Cromie; Rev. John Rawlin Trye is the incumbent. There is a mixed school. There are the remains of a Roman villa in this parish. Witcombe Park, the seat of Lady Cromie, is a fine old mansion; the park contains about 100 acres. The soil is loamy; the subsoil clayey. Lady Cromie is lady of the manor, and chief landowner. The population is 167, and the number of acres, 918.

Woodlands, Nash’s, Birdlip, Capel’s, and Upper Farm, are places here.

Cromie Lady, Witcomb park

Trye Rev. John Rawlin, Rectory

Traders

Bubb William, farmer, Witcomb farm

Cook Henry, tailor

Gale John, farmer, Woodlands

Greenland George, shopkeeper

Haiden Giles, parish clerk

Hannis Ann (Mrs.), schoolmistress

Holbert John, builder

Holbert Joseph, farmer, Nash’s farm

Pinching Wm., ‘Black Horse’, Birdlip

Smith Edwin, blacksmith

Tombs Isaac, farmer, Capel’s farm

Tombs Job, farmer, Upper farm

Weager Joseph, ‘White Horse’

Letters through Gloucester, which is also the nearest money order office.

Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire with Bath and Bristol. Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., 19, 20 & 21, Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1856.