RODMARTON, a parish in the hundred of LONGTREE,
county of GLOUCESTER, 6 miles (W. S. W.) from
Cirencester, containing 357 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester,
rated in the king's books at £18. 1. 3,, and in the
patronage of the Rev. Daniel Lysons. The church is
dedicated to St. Peter. The old Akeman-street passes
near the south-eastern boundary of the parish. In a
field called Hocbery, a tesselated pavement, with coins
of Antoninus and Valentinian, was discovered, in 1636.
A farm-house at Hasleden, in this parish, is supposed
to have been at one time a monastery; and attached
to the old manor-house at Tarlton are the'remains of, a
chapel. Samuel Lysons, F. R. S., and F. S. A., author
of the " Environs of London," and joint author of the
" Magna Britannia," was born here, in 1763.