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| | GENUKI: Kingswood, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | "KINGSWOOD, a parish and township in the hundred of Chippenham, county Gloucester, 1 mile S.W. of Wootton-under-Edge, its post town, and 2 miles from the Charfield station, on the Bristol and Birmingham railway. |
 | | It was once forest, and has the gatehouse and other remains of a Cistercian priory, founded in 1139 by Roger Berkeley, as a cell to Tyntern Abbey. |
 | | There are woollen cloth factories at Kingswood Mills, Nind Mills, and Park Mills, also a brewery. |
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