Swindon (St. Lawrence)

SWINDON (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union and hundred of Cheltenham, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 1½ mile (N. N. W.) from Cheltenham; containing 204 inhabitants. It comprises 722a. 20p., about 100 acres of which are arable, and the remainder pasture and orchard; the soil is partly clay, and partly sand. The Cheltenham and Tewkesbury road, and the Bristol and Birmingham railway, pass through the parish. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £13. 1. 0½., and in the gift of the Raymond family: the tithes have been commuted for £265; there is a parsonage-house, and the glebe contains 32¼ acres. The church is in the Norman style, with some portions of early English, and has an hexagonal tower; a gallery has been lately built.