Tibberton (Holy Trinity)
TIBBERTON (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Newent, duchy of Lancaster, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 4¼ miles (S. E.) from Newent; containing 344 inhabitants. This place formed part of the hundred of Botloe until the 30th of Edward III., when, Lancashire being made a county palatine, all the estates of the Duke of Lancaster in this county, of which Tibberton was one, were erected into a new hundred of the duchy. The parish comprises 1337a. 1r. 20p.; the surface is varied, and the soil a stiff clay. A stream called Tibberton brook falls into the river Leddon, in the adjacent parish of Rudford; and the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire canal passes on the eastern side of this parish. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £7. 16. 0½., and in the gift of the Scott family: the tithes have been commuted for £327, and the glebe comprises 5 acres.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.