STANLEY (KING'S), a parish in the lower division
of the hundred of WHITSTONE, county of GLOUCESTER,
3 miles (W. by S.) from Stroud, containing 2269 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at
£18. 15. 2., and in the patronage of the Master and
Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge. The church is
dedicated to St. George. There are places. of worship
for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. Three small
schools, conducted by females, in different parts of the
parish, are partly supported with £18 a year, arising
from several bequests. Here are Vestiges of an ancient
encampment, at some distance from which eight Roman
altars, a large brass of Alexander Severus, and other
relics, were discovered some years since.