ARLINGHAM, a parish in the upper division of the
hundred of BERKELEY, county of GLOUCESTER, if mile
(S. E. by E.) from Newnham, containing 715 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £19- 7- 8.
Mrs. Rogers was patroness in 1814. The church is
dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. Arlingham is situated on a
nook of land, formed by a curvature of the river Severn,
by which the parish is bounded on three sides. Mrs.
Mary Yate, in 1765, endowed a school for boys and
girls with a rent-charge of £40, of which she directed
that £20 should be paid to the master, and £10 to the
mistress, the remainder to be laid out in purchasing
books: she also gave an additional rent-charge of £40
for the benefit of the poor.