Matson
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Matson : Local Government No records of manorial government are known to survive
for the parish. King's Barton and Upton St. Leonards manors each had leet
jurisdiction in the parts of Matson belonging to Upton parish, 78 and
the former also dealt with tenurial matters there. 79 The
Upton manorial court regulated the use of the open field and waste land by the
Painswick road until the inclosure of 1897. Inhabitants of Matson contributed towards the expenses
of the Upton pound in the mid 19th century. 80 Matson parish had two churchwardens in the 16th
century, 81 but later there was sometimes only one. 82 The
parish had a constable in 1715. 83 The annual cost of poor relief in
the late 18th century and the early 19th rarely rose above
£43, there being usually only two or three people on permanent relief. 84
The parish was included with Upton St Leonards in the Gloucester poor-law union
in 1835. 85 later the Matson area was in the Gloucester rural
district until Gloucester city absorbed Matson and the Painswick road area in
1935, and the Wheatridge in 1967.86 Notes
:- Source: Quoted from the Victoria County History,
Gloucestershire, volume 4, page 445, by permission of the General Editor.
Submitted by Alan Longbottom
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