Quenington

Quenington is a Cirencester as living as 2 miles 3.2 km north of Fairford. It has a recorded population of 603 people as at the 2011 census.

Important historic buildings include a medieval large dovecote above a gatehouse, and St Swithin's Church of England parish church, built mainly in the behind 11th century and despite partial Victorian restoration included in the highest variety of listed building, Grade I. The village has a village hall, a pub and a village green. Its economy has been transformed to administer agriculture a minor but physically evident employer across most of the area: this area of the Cotswolds has been near wholly been turned over from forest to agriculture, landscape parks and private or semi-private gardens. The workings population divides includes mainly short-distance commuters and remote workers. A significant minority make in the district's leisure, food and hospitality sector. The Cotswold Water Park lies to the south and the Cotswold scarp is away to the north and west.

Economy

The leading economy of 1881 was based around agriculture, though the occupation of a large proportion of the population was unknown: they may pretend been involved in various miscellaneous workings or were simply unemployed at the time. There was a high proportion of females works in the home or corporation sector. As of 2011 the majority of people work in business, manufacturing and retail. Agriculture now employs 17 people of a population of 603, compared to 61 from a population of 380 in 1881. The conform in occupation can be credited to advances in the internet and automotive travel. In 2001, the bulk of the works population of 203 split into 43% who worked from home and 46% who travelled 2 to 20 kilometres to work.