Framilode, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Framilode, a village in Saul parish, and an ecclesiastical parish in Saul, Arlingham, Eastington, Fretherne, Morton Valence, and Wheatenhurst parishes, Gloucestershire. The village stands at the influx of the river Frome and the Stroudwater Canal to the Severn, 5 miles NW from Stone-house station on the M.R., 6 from Stonehouse station on the G.W.R., 9 from Gloucester, and 9 from Stroud. It has a post office under Stonehouse; money order and telegraph office, Saul. The ecclesiastical parish includes the hamlet of Epney, and was constituted in 1855. Population, 481. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £259 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church was built in 1854.

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1854.

The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.

Churches

Church of England

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Framilode are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Gloucestershire online:

• Gloucester Citizen
• Gloucester Journal
• Gloucestershire Chronicle
• Gloucestershire Echo
• Cheltenham Chronicle
• Cheltenham Looker-On

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.