Batsford Morris Gloucestershire Directory 1876

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Batsford is a village and parish in Shipston-on-Stour union, containing by the census of 1861, 130, and in 1871, 97 inhabitants, with 919 acres of land; in the hundred of Kiftsgate, deanery of Campden, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, East Gloucestershire, 1 ½ mile north-west from Moreton Station on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway. 5 south from Chipping Campden, 28 north-east from Gloucester, and 85 from London.

The rectory, valued at £370 per annum, with residence, is in the incumbency of the Rev. Cyril G. Hutchinson, M. A., honorary Canon of Gloucester and Rural Dean, and in the patronage of Lord Redesdale. The church is a handsome edifice, in the Anglo-Norman style, and consists of nave and chancel, with a tower surmounted by a spire; it is dedicated to St. Mary, and was rebuilt in 1860, by Miss Mitford, sister to Lord Redesdale. It will seat 120. The rateable value of the parish is £1913.

Batsford Park House is a handsome mansion, in the midst of a park well stocked with deer, and is the seat of Lord Redesdale, who is lord of the manor and owner of the parish.

Clergy and Gentry

Hutchinson Rev. Cyril G., M.A., The Rectory

Malcolm Miss Grace

Redesdale Right Hon. Lord, Batsford Park

Trades and professions

Callaway William, head carpenter to Lord Redesdale

Ellis James, farmer, Blenheim farm

Peach Thomas, parish clerk, Moreton

Scovell John, steward to Lord Redesdale

Letters though Moreton-in-the-Marsh, which is the nearest money order office. Box cleared at 4.30 p.m. on week-days only

Morris & Co.’s Commercial Directory & Gazetteer of Gloucestershire with Bristol and Monmouth. Second Edition. Hounds Gate, Nottingham. 1876.