COATES, a parish in the hundred of CROWTHORNE-and-MINETY,
county of GLOUCESTER, 3 miles (W. by S.)
from Cirencester, containing 309 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester,
rated in the king's books at £9- 6. 8., and in the
patronage of William Tombs, Esq. The church is dedicated
to St. Matthew. The Thames and Severn canal
is crossed by a bridge on the line of the old Ackmaiiway,
as it passes through this parish. In the neighbourhood
is Trewsbury castle, also vestiges of a Roman
encampment.