CORSE, a parish in the lower division of the hundred
of WESTMINSTER, county of GLOUCESTER, 5
miles (E, by N.) from Newent, containing 446 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage; in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's
books at £6. 2. 9., and in the patronage of the Crown.
The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. This parish is
beautifully situated, and has recently been improved by
the enclosure of upwards of one thousand three hundred
acres of land, which anciently abounded with wood, and
was called " Corse Lawn."