CHEDWORTH, a parish in the hundred of RAPSGATE,
county of GLOUCESTER, 5 miles (W. S. W.) from
North Leach, containing 975 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester,
rated in the king's books at £7- 8/4., and in the
patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Queen's
College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew,
contains a stone pulpit. In 1760, a Roman hypocaust
was discovered at Lestercomb Bottom, in this parish,
with a brick floor and pillars, a spring, and a cistern, the
bricks of which bore the inscription " a'rviri." On a
hill a little above is a large tumulus, in which, on the
removal of a large stone set upright at its mouth, a
great quantity of human bones was exposed.' The
rental of about one hundred and fifty acres of land
is applied to the support of two schoolmasters and the
vicar. Chedworth gave title of baron to the family of
Howe, which became extinct on the death of John,
Lord Chedworth.