OS Grid Reference: 51°44'N 2°19'W
Name Origin: Old English Frowecestre Roman station of the River Frome. Frome is from Welsh ffraw fair, fine, brisk.
LAND OF ST PETER'S OF GLOUCESTER
In BLACKLOW Hundred
The Church also held FROWCESTRE itself. 5 hides. In lordship 4 ploughs; 8 villagers and 7 smallholders with 7 ploughs. 3 slaves; meadow, 10 acres; woodland 3 furlongs long and 2 furlongs wide. The value was £3; now £8.
A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, 1831:
FROCESTER, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of WHITSTONE, county of GLOUCESTER, 5½ miles (W. by S.) from Stroud, containing 437 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the kings's books at £10. 5. 10. Lord Ducie was patron in 1814. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The village is situated at the foot of a lofty hill, from the top of which may be obtained an extensive and beautiful view of the vale, watered by the Severn. A college of prebendaries is said to have anciently existed here, which having been suppressed, its revenue was given to the abbey of St. Peter at Gloucester.
The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895:
Frocester, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village lies 2 miles SW of Stonehouse, and 5 miles W by S of Stroud, and-has a station on the M.K., and a post office under Stonehouse; money order office, Leonard Stanley; telegraph offices, Frocester station and Eastington. The parish comprises 1870 acres; population, 247. The manor belonged formerly to the Huntleys. The original manor house, Frocester Court, was built in the reign of Philip and Mary, figures of whom are carved in the ancient panelling in the hall. Queen Elizabeth visited George Huntley, Esq., there on St Lawrence's day, 1574. A house on the same site had formerly been the residence of the abbots of Gloucester, one of whom, John de Gamages, built the ancient tithe barn between 1284 and 1306, which is 210 feet long and still entire. The village is flanked on the S by Frocester Hill, Coaley Pike, and Cam Down - the latter of volcanic origin. The living is a vicarage in the- diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; tithe rent charge, £261 with residence. The church of St Peter was rebuilt in 1852 on an ancient site; it is used on Sunday mornings, the other services being held in St Andrew's chapel, situated near the people.
Associated Family: Evans
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