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Names of fields and places in Tibberton : Longnev, 

 Pedners, Barlon Meadow, Moor, Gillan, Steven Hay, 

 Ooft, Muz/le Patch, Cinders, (where search has been 

 made for iron). 



Bully, Bolay, anciently Bulelege. Walter Balistarius 

 is recorded in Domesday as proprietor of Bulelege, in 

 Westburv Hundred, taxed at four hides. The Church, 

 which was for some time in ruins, has been recently 

 restored. It is annexed to the living of Churcham. There 

 is a fine Yew Tree in the Churchyard. 



Names of places and fields in Bulley : Hnglish Hill, 

 Does, Losle Field, Bisle Field, Harry Field, Handilow, 

 Shewell's Dole, Tucker's Dole, Lake Farm. Woods : 

 Sparke's Gutter, Pedncr's Pits, Demesne Hood. 



Churcham. anciently Ham me. Being the part of the 

 Ham where the Church was Iniilt, to distinguish it from 

 the other Hamlets. This was in 128 1 A.D. 



Highnam, Over, and Linton were hamlets forming one 

 tithing, but lately formed into the parish of Highnam, 

 they are in the Hundred of Dudstone and King's 

 Barton, but anciently Tolangbridges. The two manors of 

 Churcham and Highnam were given by mandate of the 

 Pope to the Abbey of Gloucester, as an atonement for the 

 murder of seven monks on their way to this place by 

 Wolphin de Rue, the proprietor, 1048. The Abbey 

 continued the possession till the dissolution. 



Highnam. During the Civil Wars the old mansion 

 was occupied in turns by both parties, and was reduced to 

 ruins, but soon after the Restoration it was rebuilt, on a 

 plan by Inigo Jones, by a pupil of that Architect, the 

 proprietor being William Cooke, Esquire. 



Over lies on the Western channel of the Severn, and 

 communicates with Gloucester by a bridge, with a fine 

 single span by Telford. The old bridge gave the name to 

 the old hundred of Langebridge. Over is derived from 



