LASSINGTON, a parish in the lower division of
the hundred of DUDSTONE-and-KING'S-BARTON, county
of GLOUCESTER, 3 miles (N.W.) from Gloucester, containing
52 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester,
rated in the king's books at £6.10., and in the patronage
of SirB.W. Guise, Bart., and the Bishop of Gloucester; the
former having two presentations, and the latter one. The
Herefordshire and Gloucestershire canal runs parallel
with the river Leadon, which bounds this parish on the
north and east, and falls into the western branch of the
Severn near the ancient camp, where both rivers are
crossed by the same bridge; here also the canal is
crossed by a branch of the Severn, and joins the main
branch at Gloucester. The petrifaction called Astroites,
or Star-stone, is met with in a hill in this neighbourhood.