Sandhurst (St. Lawrence)
SANDHURST (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the Upper division of the hundred of Dudstone and King's Barton, union, and E. division of the county, of Gloucester, 3 miles (N.) from Gloucester; containing 540 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the eastern bank of the Severn, between that river and the road from Gloucester to Tewkesbury; and comprises 2227a. 1r. 1p. The living is a discharged vicarage; patron and appropriator, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The great tithes have been commuted for £480, and the vicarial for £205; the glebe comprises 12 acres of land.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.