AWRE, a parish in the hundred of BLIDESLOE,
county of GLOUCESTER, 2 miles (E. N.E.) from Blakeney,
comprising the chapelry of Blakeney and the tythings
of Blidesloe, Etloe, Etloe-Duchy, and Hagloe, and
containing 1138 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the. archdeaconry of Hereford, and diocese of Gloucester,
rated in the king's books at £ 10. 5., and in the
patronage of the Master and Wardens of the Haberdashers'
Company. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.
This parish forms a promontory of the Severn.
The port of Gatcomb, and' a town named Pomerton,
which were included within it, have both been entirely
destroyed: there is a large common, still called the Old
Wharf.