NORTH NIBLEY is a parish and village, 3 miles north-east from Charfield, 2 from Wotton-under-Edge, 2 from Dursley, and 17 from Gloucester and Bristol, in the Western division of the county, Berkeley hundred, Dursley union and county court district, and in the rural deanery of Dursley, Gloucester archdeaconry, and Gloucester and Bristol diocese. The church of St. Martin is an old stone building, in the Perpendicular style (the chancel was rebuilt in 1860, in the Early English style); it has a nave, aisle, chancel, porch, and low square tower with 6 bells, and contains an organ. The register dates from the year 1567. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £160, with residence, in the gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and held by the Rev. David Edwards, M. A., student of Christ Church; the Rev. William Thompson, of King's College London, is the curate, but non-resident. There is an Endowed school for boys (about £90 is appropriated to education, and £21 for apprenticing, and £24 are distributed to the poor), and a girls' school, supported by voluntary contributions. Benefactions:- The late incumbent, the Rev. Thomas L. Jones, left £1,000, the interest of which is to provide 10 coats and 10 cloaks yearly, the residue for church repairs; the late Mrs. Jones left £2,000, the interest is distributed weekly to poor old parishioners in money; Miss Mary Elizabeth Jones, sister of the late incumbent, left £1,000, the interest to be distributed between two poor persons of the parish. There are a Wesleyan and Independent chapels. Here is a woollen cloth factory. This is the supposed birthplace of Tyndale, the first translator of the Bible, to whose memory a monument 111 feet high was erected on Nibley Knoll in 1865, the site for which was presented by Lord Fitzhardinge. Lord Fitzhardinge, lord of the manor, the Ven. Sir G. Prevost, bart., G. H. Bengough, esq., R. B. Hale, esq., and Mrs. Williams, are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil, blue clay. The chief crops are principally pasturage; the area is 2,200 acres, and the population in 1861 was 1,020; gross estimated rental, £5,780; rateable value, £5,213.

Parish Clerk, Frederick Organ.

Post Office - John Parsons, receiver. Letters are delivered from Dursley at 8 a.m. & dispatched at 5 p.m. The nearest money order offices are at Wotton-under-Edge and Dursley.

Endowed School, Charles Partridge, master; Mrs. Catherine Partridge, mistress.

 

ALLWAY Mrs.

AUSTIN Miss, Bournestream

BLOXSOME Rev. William Henry, J. P.

CHILD Miss

EDWARDS Rev. David, M. A., Vicarage

MASON Mrs.

PERRETT Mrs.

SHATFORD Mr. Richard

 

COMMERCIAL:-

BARTON Augustus, farmer

BENNETT Isaac, farmer

BYE James, baker

CLARK Thomas, farmer

COOK William, farmer

COOPER William, beer retailer

ELLIOTT Alfred, New Inn

FRAPE John, beer retailer

GABB John, blacksmith

GAZARD Elizabeth (Mrs.), butcher

GAZARD Henry, woollen cloth manufacturer, Crowl Brook mill

HARRIS Samuel, farmer

HATHWAY John, farmer

KING Albert William, farmer

LEE Lawford, farmer

LEWTON Albert, Black Horse

LIMER Thomas, butcher

LONG Edward Ricketts, miller

MEEK Susan (Mrs.), farmer

MILLS William, White Hart

MUNDAY Matthew, shoe maker

ORGAN David, shoe maker

ORGAN Frederick, shoe maker

PARSONS John, wheelwright & postmaster & assistant overseer

PERRIN Llewelyn, miller

PICK Joseph Dimery, miller

RANDALL Benjamin, farmer

ROBERTSON William, farmer

ROBINSON Thos., farmer, Hunt's Court farm

SHATFORD Benjamin, farmer

SHATFORD Jabez, farmer

SHATFORD Richard, farmer

SMITH Elias, farmer

WATTS Edwin, tailor

WEBB Joseph, carpenter

WOODWARD Joseph, farmer

WOODWARD Samuel, blacksmith

 

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