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Marshfield in Gloucester County England History and GeographyMARSHFIELD, a market town and parish in the upper division of the hundred of THORNBURY, county of GLOUCESTER, 11½ miles (E.) from Bristol, and 102 (W. by S.) from London, containing 1569 inhabitants. The town consists chiefly of a single street of old buildings, nearly a mile in length. The trade is principally in malt, a great part of which is the produce of the vicinity. The market is on Tuesday; and fairs are held on the 24th of May and 24th of October, the former chiefly for horned cattle, and the latter for sheep, horses, and cheese. A bailiff is annually elected at the manorial court, and is assisted by a serjeant at mace; his jurisdiction extends to a considerable distance round the town. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £29. 4. 9., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford. The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome and spacious fabric, in the later style of English architecture, with a fine square tower at the west end. There is a place of worship for Unitarians. A free school was founded, about 1722, by John Harrington, Esq., who gave the school-house; it was subsequently endowed with messuages and lands for the support of a schoolmaster, in 1731, by Dionysia Long: the annual income, arising from this and other benefactions, is £62. 5., and twenty children are instructed: the present school-room was built in 1793. Almshouses for eight poor persons were founded and endowed by Nicholas Crispe, in 1625; and there are benefactions for apprenticing poor boys, and other charitable purposes. In this parish are some barrows and intrenchments, supposed to have been raised by the Britons, or Saxons, about 561, when the battle of Dirham took place in this neighbourhood. Leland mentions the existence of a nunnery also, but there are no vestiges of it. In the vicinity are three stones, which mark the limits of the counties of Gloucester, Somerset, and Wilts. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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