NEWINGTON BAGPATH is a parish and village, 1 mile from the road from Bath to Wotton and Berkeley, and 5 and a half miles east-by-north from Charfield station on the Bristol and Birmingham section of the Midland railway and 6 west from Tetbury station on the branch of the Great Western railway from Kemble Juntion, in the Eastern division of the county, upper division of Berkeley hundred, Tetbury union and petty sessional division, Dursley county court district, rural deanery of Dursley and archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The river Avon passes through the eastern portion of the parish. The church of St. Bartholomew is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and an embattled western tower containing one bell: there are 230 sittings. The register dates from the year 1686. The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Kingscote annexed, joint net yearly value £260, including 46 acres of glebe, in the gift of Col. Sir R.N.F. Kingscote K.C.B., and held since 1897 by the Rev. Selwyn Edward Rudge, M.A., of the University of Oxford. The interest of £50, left by Mr. John White, of Kingscote, is distributed to the poor in bread at Christmas. Lasborough Park, in this parish, the property of Capt. George Lindsay-Holford C.I.E., M.V.O., J.P., of Weston Birt, is now (1901) unoccupied. Col. Sir R.N.F. Kingscote K.C.B., of 19 South Audley Street, London W., is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is mixed clay and stone brash; subsoil oolite. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 1,975 acres; rateable value, £1,172; the population in 1891 was 179.

NEWINGTON is a small hamlet about a mile west.

By Local Government Board Order 14,749, March 24, 1884, a detached part of Newington Bagpath was added to Owlpen, and by Order 14,750, March 25, 1883, Old Leaze was transferred to Kingscote.

Sexton, William Webb

Letters through Wotton-under-Edge arrive at 8.30 a.m. Wall letter box cleared at 4.15 p.m. week days only. Kingscote, 1 mile distant, is the nearest post, money order & telegraph office.

National School (mixed), for the parishes of Newington Bagpath, Kingscote & Lasborough, built with master's house, in 1871, for 150 children; average attendance 50; Walter Bowdon, master.

RUDGE Rev. Selwyn Edward, M.A., Rectory (Postal address, Kingscote, Wotton-under-Edge)

DICKINSON Walter, shopkeeper

HATHERELL William, farmer & traction engine proprietor, Calcot farm (postal address, Tetbury)

HULBERT James, farmer, Scrubbits farm (postal address, Kingscote, Wotton-under-Edge)

ORMANDY William Whinnereh, farmer, Newington (postal address, Kingscote, Wotton-under-Edge)

TEAKLE Anthony George, farmer, Bagpath court

Back