MINSTERWORTH, a parish in the duchy of LANCASTER,
county of GLOUCESTER, 4 miles (W. by S.)
from Gloucester, containing 462 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at
£10. 13. 4., endowed with £800 private benefaction,
£600 royal bounty, and £500 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Bristol. The
church is dedicated to St. George. The parish is
bounded on the east and south by the navigable river
Severn, in which is a considerable salmon fishery. A
great quantity of cider is made in the neighbourhood.
Daniel Ellis, in 1784, bequeathed £100 for the erection
of a school, which was built, in 1808, on land given by
Jeremiah Hawkins; there [is an endowment of £ 4 per
annum, left by Susannah Crump in 1763, and paid to
this charity for teaching ten children.