BOXWELL is a parish and village, 5 and a half miles west from the Charfield station on the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, 6 and a half west from Tetbury, 14 south-west from Cirencester, and about 108 from London, in the Western division of the county, Grumbalds Ash hundred, Tetbury union, Malmesbury county court district, Hawkesbury rural deanery, Bristol archdeaconry, and Gloucester and Bristol diocese, situated on the Bath and Cheltenham road. The church of the Virgin is an old stone building in the Early English style; it has nave, chancel, north aisle, porch, a curious old Early English font, and low campanic tower with 1 bell. The register dates from the year 1548. The living is a rectory, yearly value £375, with residence and 68 acres of glebe land in the parish, and 4 and a half acres in Lasborough, in the gift of Henry Huntley, Esq., and held by the Rev. John Balfour Clutterbuck, B.A., of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. The Independents have a chapel here. There is a box wood about 40 acres in extent; in it is a well, dedicated to the Virgin; nightshade, hemlock, henbane, and sweet scented flag grow there in great abundance. The Old Manor House was the court-house of the Abbot of Gloucester, under whom the Huntleys were lessees, and purchased the freehold of Sir Walter Raleigh, to whom it was granted by Queen Elizabeth; during the Civil War it was frequently the resting-place of Prince Rupert. Henry Huntley Esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is light loam; subsoil, oolite and marl. The chief crops are barley, wheat and oats. The area is 2,266 acres, and the population in 1861 was 255; gross estimated rental, £2,762; rateable value, £2,495.

LEIGHTERTON is a hamlet and chapelry of Boxwell, about 1 mile and a half north-west. The chapel of St. Andrew has a low square tower with 1 bell; here the services of the church are performed, as it is here the greater portion of the inhabitants reside; the services are performed at Boxwell only on particular occasions and for marriages, the chapel not being licensed for that purpose. Here is a large barrow, opened by Matthew Huntley, Esq., about the year 1700, containing three vaults, in each of which was found an earthern urn, containing burnt human bones; there is also a smaller one at Boxwell, whereon is a large and upright stone above 6 feet high.

Parish Clerk - Henry Jones

Letters through Wotton-under-Edge, arrive at 10.30 a.m.; dispatched at 3.45 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Wotton-under-Edge.

BOXWELL

COLLYER Baring, Esq., Boxwell court

DREW Benjamin, farmer

 

LEIGHTERTON

CLUTTERBUCK Rev. John Balfour, B.A., [rector]

TYNDALL Mrs.

 

Commercial

BRISTOW Samuel, farmer

EXELL Edward Gabb, Royal Oak, & miller & farmer

FORD Charles, blacksmith

HAYWARD George, carpenter

HOLBOROW William, farmer

HOOPER John, nailer

HOWSE Rachael (Mrs.), shopkeeper

MOSS William, butcher

TANNER William, farmer

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