Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 14 Dec 1947
Place: Cowley, Cheltenham
The body of a newly born male child was found in a hedge in Cowley off the Cheltenham to Cirencester Road.
It was found on the Sunday 14 December 1947 by a farmer who lived at The Old Rectory in Cowley whilst he was walking in a field adjoining the main Cheltenham to Cirencester Road. He said that it was in a brown paper parcel lying in the hedge and that when he opened it he discovered the child's body.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Gloucestershire Echo - Saturday 31 January 1948
see Unsolved 1947
