NIBLEY (NORTH), a parish in the upper division
of the hundred of BERKELEY, county of GLOUCESTER,
2 miles (N. W.) from Wotton under Edge, containing
1553 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, endowed
with £400 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and
£800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The
church, dedicated to St. Martin, has lately received an
addition of fifty free sittings, the Incorporated Society
for the enlargement of churches and chapels having
granted £50 towards defraying the expense. There is
a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. William
Purnell, in 1763, bequeathed £300 to purchase an
annuity for teaching five boys of the parish, also an
estate for apprenticing the sons of parishioners, with
each of whom a premium of about £20 is given, the
total'annual income being £57. 2. 6. There is a bequest
of £4. 10. per annum by Matthew Tyndall, for teaching
poor children to read.