KEMERTON, a parish in the lower division of the
hundred of TEWKESBURY, county of GLOUCESTER, 4
miles (N.E.) from Tewkesbury, containing 520 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at
£17. 13. 1., and in the patronage of the Mayor and
Corporation of Gloucester. The church has portions
in the early, and some in the later, style of English
architecture. There are places of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. The parish contains an excellent
quarry of freestone, and several petrifying springs.