Rangeworthy

RANGEWORTHY, a chapelry, in the parish, union, and Lower division of the hundred, of Thornbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 3¾ miles (S. W. by W.) from Wickwar; containing 353 inhabitants. This chapelry, which comprises by computation 600 acres, is situated on the road from Wotton-under-Edge, through Cromhall, to Bristol; and the railroad from Gloucester to Bristol runs within a mile of the village. The manufacture of hats employs a few hands. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £80; patron, the Vicar of Thornbury; appropriators, the Dean and Canons of Christ-Church, Oxford. The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is a small edifice with a Norman south door. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans.