TURKDEAN, a parish in the hundred of BRADLEY,
county of GLOUCESTER, 2 miles (N. by W.) from
North Leach, containing 228 inhabitants. .The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry "and diocese
of Gloucester, rated "in the king's books' at £10,
endowed with £210 private benefaction, and £'200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage qf the Dean and Canons
of Christ Church, Oxford." The church is dedicated ,tb
All Saints. There are quarries of good freestone, "from
which large quantities were taken and used in the building
of Blenheim House.