Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EBRINGTON, or Ebberton

EBRINGTON, or Ebberton, a parish in the district of Shipston-on-Stour and county of Gloucester; adjacent to Warwickshire and to the West Midland railway, 2 miles East of Chipping-Campden. It contains the hamlet of Hidcote-Boyce; and gives the title of Viscount to Earl Fortescue. Post town, Chipping-Campden, under Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Acres, 2, 960. Real property, £3, 873. Pop., 570. Houses, 123. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Mickleton, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church contains monuments of the Fortescues; and is good. There are a national school and some charities. .


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Ebrington AP/CP       Gloucestershire AncC
Place names: EBBERTON     |     EBRINGTON     |     EBRINGTON OR EBBERTON
Place: Ebrington

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