BOURTON-on-the-HILL, a parish partly in the upper division of the hundred of TEWKESBURY, and partly in the upper division of the hundred of WESTMINSTER, county of GLOUCESTER, 2 miles (W. by N.) from Moreton in the Marsh, containing 354 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Moreton in the Marsh annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £14. The Rev. Dr. Warneford was patron in 1810. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. Sir Thomas Overbury, an ingenious writer in the reign of James I., who was poisoned whilst a prisoner in the Tower, was born here, in 1581.