TORWORTH, (Gloucestershire) on the S. side of the Avon, to the W. of Wotton under Edge, is a p. 8 m. in com. Sir Rich.
Kingston, the Ld. of it, in the R. of Edward I. purchased Fairs and Mts. here, long since disused. From his family the
manor went by marriage to the Veels, who held it above 200 years; from them it went by marriage to the Matthews's, and
after to the Throgmortons, who sold it to Mr. Web, of whom Sir Robert Ducy bought it, whose descendant, the Ld. Ducy
Morton, has a seat here, with a park. In his garden there is, or was lately, a chesnut-tree about 19 yards in com. said to
have been growing ever since the R. of K. John.