HARESFIELD, a parish in the upper division of
the hundred of WHITSTONE, county of GLOUCESTER,
5 miles (N. W. by N.) from Stroud, containing 662
inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the
king's books at £17, andsin the patronage of the Earl
of Hardwicke. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, appears
to have been built by the prior of Llanthony;
it has a western tower, surmounted by a handsome
spire. The Gloucester and Berkeley canal passes through
the parish. A trifling sum, the united bequests of
Mrs. Capel and Mr. Daniel Niblett, is appropriated to
the instruction of children.