PAUNTLEY, a parish in the hundred of BOTLOE,
county of GLOUCESTER, 2 miles (N.E. by N.) from
Newent, containing 280 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Hereford, and
diocese of Gloucester, endowed with £ 600 royal bounty,
and £200 parliamentary grant, arid in the patronage
of the Bishop of Gloucester. The church, dedicated to
St. John the Evangelist, has an enriched Norman door.
The river Leddon runs through the parish. Here are
springs, the water of which is similar in quality to the
Cheltenham waters.