In the Middle Ages to guarantee the mill’s supply of water and to facilitate repairs after flooding Gloucester abbey made several agreements about the course of the river and of the Glynch brook with landholders immediately upstream in Staunton. On the east side of the parish part of the river was embanked and adapted as a leat to the site of Upleadon mill. The parish lies mainly on the mudstones and other sediments formerly known as the Keuper Marl with a broad bed of alluvium beside the river Leadon on the east and the Ell brook on the south. Ībove the valley of the Leadon the land lies mainly at below 40 m but in the north-western corner it rises more steeply to 70 m on Eden’s hill. The following account deals with the parish as constituted until 1992. It was enlarged to 645.5 ha in 1992 by the addition from Newent and Pauntley of settled farmland to the west in an area extending northwards from Okle green to Eden’s hill and of land in Madam’s and Collin Park woods to the north-west. Where on the east side it followed the course of the Glynch brook flowing into the Leadon from the north-east, the parish boundary underwent some adjustment after the river’s course was adapted as a mill leat in 1605 Sir Thomas Lucy, the lord of Upleadon, and William Horton exchanged meadow land upstream of the mill on the boundary between Upleadon and Staunton (Worcs., later Glos.). Upleadon’s shorter southern boundary followed the tributary Newent or Ell brook, known in the early 21st century as the Leachford brook.Ī chapelry of Rudford in the Middle Ages, Upleadon contained 1,230 a. The parish of Upleadon, situated 10.5 km north-west of Gloucester, extends southwards for 5 km beside the river Leadon and was represented in the Domesday survey by an estate of Gloucester abbey called Leadon. On the parish’s north-eastern side the river marked the ancient boundary between Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. (Victoria History of Gloucestershire XIII, draft text by John Juřica: © University of London 2011)
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