ELMORE, a parish in the middle division of the
hundred of DUDSTONE-AND-KINGS-BARTON, county of
GLOUCESTER, 6 miles (W. S.W.) from Gloucester, containing
355 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester)
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £800
royal bounty, and in the patronage of Sir Berkeley
William Guise, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. John
the Baptist, has an embattled tower at the west end:
The waters in the neighbourhood abound with eels,
from which Elmore probably derived its name. The
river Severn is navigable on the west of the parish;
but, owing to a rock extending nearly across the stream
there is only a narrow channel for vessels of light
draught, except at high water. There are a day and
Sunday schools, supported by SirB.W. Guise.