Description

Arlingham, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on the left side of the Severn, within a fold of that river, nearly opposite Newnham station on the South Wales branch of the G.W.R., and 8 miles WNW of Stonehouse. The parish has a post office under Stonehouse; money order and telegraph office, Saul. Acreage, 2459, with 737 of water; population of the civil parish, 566; of the ecclesiastical, 503. Much of the land is marshy. Some spots command a fine view of the Severn and its screens. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £150. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1868, and there is a Wesleyan chapel.