FORTHAMPTON, a parish in the lower division of
the hundred of TEWKESBURY, county of GLOUCESTER,
2 miles (W.) from Tewkesbury, containing 474 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with
£1400 private benefaction, £1000 royal bounty, and
£600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
J. Yorke, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
The navigable river Severn runs through the parish, and
frequently inundates the meadows on its banks. Forthampton
court, a private mansion, was formerly the
residence of the abbots of Tewkesbury.