Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LYPPIATT (LOWER and UPPER)

LYPPIATT (LOWER and UPPER), two tythings in Stroud parish, Gloucester; near the canal and the Great Western railway, 2 miles E of Stroud. Pop., 1,276 and 4,061. Lyppiatt Park belonged formerly to the Throgmortons; belongs now to J. E. Dorington, Esq.; and is said to have been the place where the Gunpowder plot was hatched.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "two tythings"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Stroud CP/Ch       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Lypiatt

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