RUDFORD, a parish partly in the hundred of
BOTLOE, and partly in the lower division of the hundred
of DUDSTONE-and-KING'S-BARTON, county of
GLOUCESTER, 3 miles (N. W. by W.) from Gloucester,
containing, with the hamlet of High Leadon, 189 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Hereford, and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the
king's books at £ 10, and in the patronage of the Dean
and Chapter of Gloucester. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary. The river Leadon separates this parish
from that of Hartpury, and the Gloucester and Ledbury
canal passes through it.