Barbara

At Yorkley the Revd. Henry Poole of Parkend conducted cottage services in the late 1820s. (fn. 95) In 1867 the perpetual curate of Bream was licensed to hold services in a schoolroom at Yorkley Wood. (fn. 96) The mission continued in the 1870s (fn. 97) and the schoolroom, formerly a workshop, was remodelled as a church in 1884. (fn. 98) St. Paul's church, Parkend, ran the mission from 1909 (fn. 99) and Caroline Gosling (d. 1917) gave £500 stock for a charity to keep the mission chuch in repair. (fn. 1) In 1968 the mission church, which was known as St. Luke's, was closed (fn. 2) and the fittings, including a bell cast in 1882, were moved to a house on Captain's green, lower down in Yorkley, the ground floor of which was adapted for the mission. (fn. 3) The abandoned church was later converted as a house and the mission was ended in 1991. (fn. 4)

From: 'Forest of Dean: Churches', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 389-396. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23271 Date accessed: 30 July 2009.

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The Parsonage
Captains Green Road
Yorkley
Lydney Gloucestershire. GL15 4TW.

Can anyone please tell me where Captins/Captins Green is and how it got its name.I think it may be at Lower Yorkley,but not sure.

Many Thanks

Barbara