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| | GENUKI: Painswick, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868 |
 | | It is situated near the line of the Bristol and Birmingham railway, and the high roads from Cheltenham to Bath, and from Stroud to Gloucester, pass through it. |
 | | There is a grammar-school, founded in 1724, by Giles Smith, and known as the Painswick commercial, mathematical, and classical school, with an endowment of £60 per annum; also the united, National, and free, and a British school, which last belongs to the Dissenters. |
 | | Painswick House and Painswick Grove are the principal residences. |
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