SAPPERTON, a parish in the hundred of BISLEY,
county of GLOUCESTER, comprising the tythings of
Frampton-Marshall and Sapperton, and containing 476
inhabitants, of which number, 295 are. in the tything
of Sapperton, 5 miles (W. N. W.) from Cirencester.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £17, and in
the patronage of Earl Bathurst. The church is dedicated
to St. Kenelm. The Thames and Severn canal, in
its course through this parish, is conducted, by a tunnel
four thousand one hundred and eighty feet long,
underneath Hagley wood. At Frampton, two urns filled
with denarii and copper coins, were discovered, in 1759,
by the sinking of a wagon-wheel, near which spot are
vestiges of an ancient camp, and south-east of it there
was a beacon.