DUMBLETON, a parish in the lower division of
the hundred of KIFTSGATE, county of GLOUCESTER, 6
miles (N.byW.) from Winchcombe, containing 374 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books
at £18. 16. 8. The church, dedicated to St. Peter,
has an embattled tower at the west end. A rivulet,
called the Isborn, runs through the parish; and on the
side of a hill a mineral spring rises. Dorothy Cocks,
in 1754, bequeathed £2 per annum for teaching children
to read; and Richard Cocks, in 1728, gave an estate at
Tainton, worth £21 per annum, part for apprenticing a
boy, and the remainder to the poor not receiving alms.