MINCHING-HAMPTON, (Gloucestershire) 3 m. from Tetbury, 6 m. from Cirencester, 20 m. from Bath and Bristol, 77 cm. and near
90 mm. from London. It had the name from the nuns called Minchings at Caen in Normandy, to whom it bel. as it had before
to the monks of Worcester; but Hen. V. who suppressed the alien mons. settled it on his nunnery at Sion in Middlesex. At
the Diss. this manor was granted to Andrews Ld. Windsor, in whose family it continued, till Thomas Ld. Windsor sold it to
Mr. Samuel Shepherd, whose son, Philip, lived in the large house here, with the park near the Ch. One of the abbesses of
Caen, in the R. of Henry III. purchased the grant of its Mt. which is on Tu. and its Fairs, which are on Oct. 18, and the
M. after Trinity. The p. is pretty large, being bounded on the N. with the Stroud, and on the S. by the brook Avening, and
has 17 hamlets bel. to it, with a common, called Amberley. Here is a good large rectory, Ch. built in form of a cross, and
worth 200 l. a year. Near it are very large camps, with deep trenches; and near Dunkirk in this p. are fulling-mills.