Batsford Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1856

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Batsford is a township, parish, and small village, about 1 ½ miles from the Moreton station on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton line of railway, 28 from Gloucester, and 5 from Campden, in Kiftsgate Hundred, Shipston-on-Stour Union, and Gloucester and Bristol bishopric.

The church is a small stone building, with 1 bell. The living is a rectory; the Rev. Cyril G. Hutchinson is the incumbent.

The population, in 1851, was 107; the acreage contained in the parish is 919 acres.

The Right Hon. Lord Redesdale is lord of the manor.

Gentry.
Hutchinson Rev. Cyril G. (rector)
Malcolm Mrs.
Redesdale Rt. Hon. Lord, Batsford pk

Traders.
Clark Stephen, farmer
Ellis James, farmer
Ellis Thomas, farmer
Hunt – , steward to Lord Redesdale

Letters through Moreton-in-the-Marsh, which is also the nearest money order office.

Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire with Bath and Bristol.  Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., 19, 20 & 21, Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1856.