ROCKHAMPTON, a parish in the lower division
of the hundred of LANGLEY-and-SWINEHEAD, county
of GLOUCESTER, 2 miles (N. E. by N.) from Thornbury,
containing 159 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry and .diocese of Gloucester,
rated in the king's books at £ 15, and in the patronage
of Danvers Ward, Esq. The church is dedicated to St..
Oswald. The parish is partly bounded by the navigable
river Severn.