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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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NIBLEY (North), a village and a parish in Dursley district, Gloucester. The village stands under a knoll of the Cotswolds, 1¼ mile E of the Bristol and Gloucester railway, 2 N W of Wotton-under-Edge, and 2 S W of Dursley r. station; is supposed to have been the birth-place of Tyndale, the translator of the Bible; and has a post-office under Dursley. A monument to Tyndalewas erected in 1866, on Nibley Knoll, overhanging the village. The parish comprises 3, 245 acres. Real property, £6, 324. Pop. in 1851, 1, 133; in 1861, 1,020. Houses, 246. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Earl Fitzhardinge. The right to themanor was fought between the Berkeleys and the Lisles, in 1470, on Nibley-Green. There is a woollen cloth factory. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £160. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church is mainly later English; but the chancel was recently rebuilt, and is in the early English style. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, an endowed school with £91 a year, and charities about £33.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | North Nibley Ch/CP Dursley RegD/PLU Gloucestershire AncC |
| Place names: | NIBLEY | NIBLEY NORTH | NORTH NIBLEY |
| Place: | North Nibley |
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