KINGSWOOD, (Gloucestershire) N. of Wickwar, though encompassed with Glocestershire, and in its diocese, and 7 m. from any
place in Wilts, is a p. nevertheless in the latter, and under its sheriffs, &c. The manor was anciently in the Berkleys
family, one of whom founded an abbey here, on which he settled it. After the Diss. it was granted to Sir John Thynn, from
whose family it was passed to the Smiths of Nibley, and afterwards to Tho. Mitchel; but the whole p. is tithe-free, on
account of a grant to the abbey. Here is a ch. sc.