DRIFFIELD, a parish in the hundred of CROWTHORNE-and-MINETY,
county of GLOUCESTER, 4 miles
(E. S. E.) from Cirencester, containing 144 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £8. 2. 3.,
and in the patronage of T. Smith, Esq. The church is
dedicated to St. Mary. A free school was founded in
1825, by Arthur Vansittart, Esq. and Susannah Cumberland,
the former granting a messuage and garden,,
and the latter bestowing £300, the interest of which,
together with other voluntary contributions, is applied
to the instruction of about twenty children on the National
system.