SANDHURST, a parish in the upper division of
the hundred of DUDSTONE-and-KING'S-BARTON, county
of GLOUCESTER, 3 miles (N.) from Gloucester, containing
473 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Bristol.
The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. The navigable
river Severn bounds the parish on the east and north.