A guide to archive sources for the history of South Gloucestershire

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A guide to archive sources for the history of
South Gloucestershire
Aircraft factory workers at Filton, © South Gloucestershire Council
Published by Gloucestershire Archives
in partnership with South Gloucestershire Council
November 2011 (second edition)
Archive sources for the history of South Gloucestershire
Table of contents
Click a heading to go to that section
How to use this guide.....................................................................................................................2
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................5
Sources listed by subject..............................................................................................................14
Sources listed by place...............................................................................................................262
Acknowledgements and feedback..............................................................................................707
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How to use this guide
Contents and arrangement
This guide covers the places now in the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire which were
in the county of Avon between 1974 and 1996, and prior to that in the historic county of
Gloucestershire. It also includes places formerly in Gloucestershire which are now in Bristol,
and some material relating to Bristol itself.
The information is presented in two sections: the first section consists of a series of subject
headings, with entries arranged by place. The second section is arranged by the place to which
the information relates, with entries arranged by subject under each placename heading.
A place has been given a separate entry if it has at any point been an ecclesiastical or civil
parish in its own right. Some modern ecclesiastical parishes still remain, for civil purposes,
within the larger parishes from which they were created, so researchers are advised to check
the placename entries for both (for example, the ecclesiastical parish of Patchway remains
within Almondsbury for civil purposes, so researchers interested in Patchway should check
Almondsbury for references to civil records such as those of the parish council). Each place
has an introduction detailing the parishes which it once contained, or the parish it was once part
of, and giving the main administrative bodies which covered it, including local councils,
magistrates’ courts, coroners’ divisions, parliamentary divisions, highway boards, poor law
unions, dioceses and deaneries.
The subject headings have been chosen as being those most likely to be useful to researchers
of local and family history. Some, such as ‘Deeds’, ‘Estate and family records’ and ‘Manorial
records’, are closely interrelated and researchers are advised to check them all.
Using the references
The references to documents are in the form of hyperlinks which will take you to the relevant
websites as follows:
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References to material held at Gloucestershire Archives will take you directly to the
relevant catalogue in the Gloucestershire Archives online catalogue database
o References to material held at Gloucestershire Archives which do not yet have an
online catalogue entry will take you to the front page of the Gloucestershire
Archives website
o References to material indexed in the Gloucestershire Archives Genealogical
Database will take you to the search page for the database. You should then put
the information you have into the relevant search boxes, select the types of
material you wish to search for, and press ‘Search’ to call up a hitlist of references
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References to material held at Bristol Record Office will take you to the search page for
Bristol Record Office’s online catalogue database. You should then put the reference
number into the ‘RefNo’ box and press ‘Search’ to call up the relevant catalogue
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References to material held at Bristol Reference Library will take you to the front page of
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the Bristol Reference Library website
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References to material held at Bristol Central Library will take you to the front page of the
Bristol Central Library website
Where a collection or group of material does not have a reference number or an online entry,
there is no hyperlink; you should contact the relevant repository in order to consult the material;
for example some of Bristol Record Office’s collections of deeds and maps are only accessible
via a card index in the Record Office searchroom, so if you find a reference to that collection
you will have to visit the Record Office in order to find the documents in which you are
interested.
Using the online catalogues
Both Gloucestershire Archives and Bristol Record Office use the same software to display their
online catalogues, so they work in a similar way, but the two catalogues look a little different.
The following instructions were written using Gloucestershire Archives’ site as a guide, as the
links for Gloucestershire Archives material take the user directly to a hitlist of results or a
catalogue record. The Bristol site works in exactly the same way, but it has not been possible
to link directly in to the hitlist or individual records: users will need to perform a search using the
reference numbers given in this guide.
When you click a Gloucestershire Archives link, or when you search for a Bristol Record Office
reference, you will be taken to a hitlist of results:
You can scroll through the hitlist by using the ‘Forward 1 page’ and ‘Forward 10 pages’ links.
Once you have found an entry you would like to see in more detail, you can then click the blue
number on the left-hand side in order to see the detailed catalogue entry for each item. Some
of the Gloucestershire Archives links will take you directly to the detailed catalogue entry for the
collection or item.
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The detailed catalogue entry looks like this:
If you want to browse the collection, you can go back to the hitlist and scroll through it as before,
you can use the ‘Forward 1’, ‘Forward 10’, ‘Back 1’ and ‘Back 10’ links, or you can click the red
seal icon next to the word ‘SortRef’ in order to bring up the catalogue ‘tree structure’:
The ‘tree’ works much like the folder structure in file management programs such as Windows
Explorer. Section and series headings are given, and you can click the folder icons to expand
the tree to show what is in each section and series. You can click the document icon to go to
any individual catalogue entry.
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Introduction
The purpose of this guide is to draw together the sources of archives for the area which is now
administered by the South Gloucestershire Unitary Authority. This area was under Avon County
Council between 1974 and 1996 and until 1974 was part of the county of Gloucestershire.
Archives for the area will be found in Gloucester at the Gloucestershire Archives and in Bristol
at the Bristol Record Office and in Bristol Central Library.
Bristol has been a city and county in its own right since 1373, apart from the years it was part of
the county of Avon (1974-1996). On the abolition of Avon in 1996, Bristol reverted to its
separate status. In many indexes Bristol is listed under Gloucestershire because the medieval
city is on the north side of the River Avon which flows through the city and traditionally marked
the border between Gloucestershire and Somerset.
In 1835, Bristol's city council extended the city's boundaries to encompass the parishes of St
Philip and Jacob Without and Clifton, the united district of St James and St Paul, and parts of
the parishes of Bedminster and Westbury-on-Trym. At that time, the Bristol Incorporation
comprised the city parishes of All Saints, Castle Precincts, Christ Church, St Augustine the less,
St Ewen, St James, St John, St Leonard, St Mary-le-Port, St Mary Redcliffe, St Michael, St
Nicholas, St Paul, St Peter, St Philip & St Jacob, St Stephen, St Thomas, St Werburgh, and
Temple.
A Boundaries Committee was appointed in 1889 to consider the extension of the boundaries of
the city of Bristol; its minutes survive for the period 1889-1897 (M/BCC/A/M/BOU/1/1-4, Bristol
Record Office). Meanwhile, the boundaries of the county of Gloucestershire as a local
government unit were defined in 1894, including the parishes of Avonmouth, Fishponds,
Henbury, Horfield, St George, Shirehampton, Stapleton, Stoke Bishop and Westbury on Trym.
These parishes became part of Bristol between 1897 and 1904; indeed, parts of Henbury
remained in Gloucestershire until 1930.
In 1974, Bristol became the centre of the new county of Avon, and remained so until 1996,
when Avon was abolished. Bristol regained its county status, and the unitary authority of South
Gloucestershire was created out of the borough of Kingswood and the district of Northavon.
Archive provision in South Gloucestershire
Bristol Record Office was established in 1924 to care for the archives of the City and County of
Bristol, and Gloucestershire Archives (then known as Gloucestershire Record Office) was set
up in 1936 to look after the archives of the ancient county of Gloucestershire.
When local government reorganisation took place in 1974, the southern portion of the county of
Gloucestershire was transferred to Avon, but no county record office was set up for the new
county. Archives relating to the City of Bristol were still cared for by Bristol Record Office, but
neither that office nor Gloucestershire Record Office had authority to look after the records of
the parishes in Avon which were outside the city boundaries.
Following the creation in 1996 of South Gloucestershire, the new unitary authority bought into
Gloucestershire County Council’s archive service and so once again the old shire county has
the care of the archives down to the Bristol boundary.
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The City of Bristol and its record keeping
The City of Bristol has a long tradition of recordkeeping, dating back to the Middle Ages; the
Common Council proceedings begin in 1598 (M/BCC/CCP, Bristol Record Office).
Except for the Mayor and Aldermen’s Committee, the first City committees were not permanent,
instead being appointed for a particular purpose. Minutes were generally entered in separate
books until General Committee books were created to contain most of them. Out of this system
there developed in about 1790 certain standing committees, many of which had significant
interests in South Gloucestershire.
Committees
The Corporation of Bristol had begun to purchase estates in the surrounding countryside by the
16th and early 17th centuries, partly as a result of the dissolution of the monastic houses and
partly due to increasing prosperity. By 1725 the Surveyors of City Lands Committee had been
formed to manage the City’s landed estates. It met monthly from 1790 and the minutes survive
from that date (04299, Bristol Record Office). A volume of surveys by John Jacob de Wilstar
containing maps of various manors including Gaunts Earthcott, Filton, Henbury, Siston and
Winterbourne, for the period 1736-43 (04480, Bristol Record Office), is among the records of
the Surveyors, together with plans of the estates of Lea Tithing and the manor of Gaunts
Earthcott by Player and Sturge, 1784, 1824 and 1837. The records also include copies of
leases, plans, minutes and court rolls (BCC/F/E, Bristol Record Office).
A Rivers Committee was created in 1791 to enquire into nuisances which had arisen in the
Rivers Avon, Severn and Frome. Minutes survive for this committee between 1791 and 1826
(BCC/A/2, Bristol Record Office).
The Estates and General Purposes Committee superintended the receipts and disbursements
of corporate funds and the funds of the city lands. Two committees were set up in 1836 and
amalgamated into a finance committee in 1901 with responsibility for planning and traffic as
well. Minutes, orders, land stewards and other records survive from 1836 for this committee.
A committee was appointed in 1902 to enquire and report on the management of Brentry
Homes, Henbury (BCC/A/M, Bristol Record Office). There are minutes of the District
Committee of the Gloucestershire War Agricultural Executive Committee, 1939-1945 (BCC/A/M/
GWAR/1, Bristol Record Office).
Bristol Corporation of the Poor
The city of Bristol passed a private Poor Relief Act in 1696 which amalgamated all of the
nineteen parishes within the city limits for poor-relief purposes and established the first Board of
Guardians (Bristol Corporation of the Poor) and the first workhouse in England at St Peter’s
Hospital, which was purchased by the Bristol Corporation of the Poor for use as a workhouse
for the destitute and as a lunatic asylum c.1698.
This Act enabled the erecting of hospitals and "workhouses within the City of Bristol for the
better employing and maintaining of the poor”. It was the first of its kind in the country and other
towns and cities followed Bristol’s lead. This inspired the passing of similar Acts until the Poor
Law Amendment Act of 1868
In 1779 a prison had been built to house French prisoners of war in Fishponds which was then
part of Stapleton parish. There are references to these prisoners in the register of inquests kept
by William Joyner of Berkeley, County Coroner from 1790-1823 (D260, Gloucestershire
Archives). In 1833 the prison was taken over by the Bristol authorities as a workhouse and
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lunatic asylum, due to overcrowding at St Peter's Hospital which after 1865 was used mainly for
administrative purposes. The Fishponds site continued to develop, with male and female
infirmary blocks being erected in about 1870. There was a major redevelopment of the main
building in about 1890.
There had been a private lunatic asylum in Fishponds since 1738 founded by Dr Joseph Mason.
His granddaughter married Dr George Bompas and the Asylum passed to members of the Cox
and Bompas families. The deeds of Fishponds House, also known as “Mason’s Madhouse”,
dating from 1747 can be seen in the Bristol Record Office (49646). The Asylum closed in 1850,
and the patients were transferred to the Borough Lunatic Asylum nearby.
Between 1835 and 1897, the Bristol Corporation of the Poor continued to operate at St Peter's
Hospital and Stapleton [Fishponds] workhouses.
Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 the Clifton Union (renamed Barton Regis in 1877)
and Bedminster were constituted in 1837. Due to the extension of the city boundaries in 1835
these two unions were included within the City although they retained separate headquarters,
Barton Regis at Eastville [100 Fishponds Road in Stapleton parish] and Bedminster at Long
Ashton. Clifton Union included the following parishes which were outside the City itself: Clifton,
St James and St Paul, St Philip and Jacob, Horfield, Stapleton, St George, Stoke Gifford,
Westbury on Trym, Filton, Henbury, Winterbourne and Compton Greenfield.
By an act of 1897 there was one union for the entire city with its headquarters at St Peter’s
Hospital. In 1904 Barton Regis Union was dissolved and a workhouse at Southmead built in
1902 was taken over by the Bristol Board of Guardians. In 1929 this body was replaced by the
Public Assistance Committee.
An Act of Parliament of 1845 made provision for the regulation of lunatic asylums and the
maintenance and care of pauper lunatics in England. These duties were transferred from the
Justices of the Peace to the Council in 1846 and in 1930 became known as the Mental Hospital
Visiting Committee. This committee was dissolved under the Mental Health Act of 1946.
Minutes survive from 1856-1948; visitors, books, 1860-1942; letter books,
1866-1923;deeds1860-1948; and plans of the Bristol Lunatic Asylum, 1889-1904 at Fishponds.
(BCC/A/M/MEH, Bristol Record Office).
The Corporation of the Poor’s archives were housed in St Peter’s Hospital, which was
destroyed by enemy action in 1940. These included all the Board of Guardians records except
some minutes between 1901 and 1903 and the Eastville Workhouse registers, 1868-1952
(covering dates). The only other records which survived were the deeds of the Hospital,
1548-1696; deeds and related papers concerning Shirehampton and Upton, 1699-1828;
Stapleton Institution deeds, 1777-1837; records of Eastville Institution, 1722-1902; a workhouse
book concerning children’s pin work, 1779-1780; and a contract for passage of paupers to Van
Diemen’s land, 1833.
Burial Boards
A Burial Board subcommittee was appointed to manage Greenbank Cemetery, which had been
transferred from the St Philip’s Burial Board (BCC/S/SPBB, Bristol Record Office). Avonview
Cemetery (BCC/D/CEM/2, Bristol Record Office) was taken over from the St George Burial
Board (BCC/A/M/BUR/1-3, Bristol Record Office), and Shirehampton cemetery from
Shirehampton Parish Council. In 1919 the subcommittee became known as the Crematorium
and Cemeteries Committee. Minutes and notes survive from 1896-1968.
Rural and Urban District Councils in the Bristol area
The Public Health Act 1872, created urban and rural sanitary authorities across the whole
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country. Guardians of the Poor Law Unions were constituted as the rural sanitary authority for
those parts of each union not in an urban sanitary authority. In 1894 the rural sanitary districts
were renamed Rural Districts, and the urban sanitary districts were renamed Urban Districts,
and were all governed by elected authorities
Barton Regis Rural District Council took over the functions of the Barton Regis Rural Sanitary
Authority in 1894 and Westbury on Trym and Shirehampton Parochial Committees were
elected. Under the Bristol Corporation Act 1904, Westbury on Trym and Shirehampton became
part of the city of Bristol, and Barton Regis RDC ceased to exist.
Horfield Urban District Council began as a Local Government Board in 1866 and became an
Urban District Council in 1897. Horfield became part of the city of Bristol in 1904 and the Urban
District Council ceased to exist.
The Board of Highways for Stapleton was replaced in 1879 by the Stapleton (Gloucestershire)
Local Board, which became Stapleton Urban District Council in 1894 and was abolished in 1898
when Stapleton became part of Bristol.
St George Highway Board acted as the Sewer Authority under the 1866 and 1868 Acts. This
gave way to the St George Local Board of Health in 1873 and then the St George Urban
Sanitary Authority, which became St George Urban District Council in 1894 and was abolished
in 1898 when St George became part of Bristol.
The county of Gloucestershire and its recordkeeping
Historically, judicial and administrative matters in Gloucestershire were the responsibility of the
Court of Quarter Sessions. The Justices of the Peace in the Court of Quarter Sessions dealt
with a wide range of matters including highways, bridges, paupers, lunatics, reformatories,
diseases of animals, weights and measures, coroners, homes for inebriates and the police.
Gloucestershire County Council was established in 1888 to carry out the administrative work
previously done by the court of Quarter Sessions, and was carrying out that work by April 1889.
The Council included members for Almondsbury, Badminton, Bitton, Chipping Sodbury,
Horfield, Mangotsfield, Oldland, Pucklechurch, St George Central, St George East and St
George West, Stapleton, Thornbury, Westbury on Trym, and aldermen were appointed in
Frenchay, Falfield and Clifton.
In 1936 a Records Committee was appointed under the Chairmanship of Sir Francis Hyett for
the acquisition and preservation of county and historical documents, and the Gloucestershire
Record Office was set up to carry out this work.
Education and children’s services
The new County Council held similar responsibilities to the justices of the Quarter Sessions for
a while but a major change came following the Education Act of 1902 which required the
Council to set up an Education Committee with its own officers and department to supply or to
aid the supply and to promote the coordination of all forms of education taking over the powers
of the School Boards which were to be abolished. Gloucestershire appointed Mr H W
Household as Secretary of Education in 1903. He visited schools throughout the county until
his retirement in 1936, and kept a series of very interesting and detailed notebooks recounting
these visits. (C/AE/R/5, Gloucestershire Archives).
The Adoption of Children Act 1939 regulated the making of arrangements for the adoption of
children by societies and others and for their supervision by the County Council. However, in
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1939 the Council was ordered by the Home Office to give priority over all other business to
matters related to air raid precautions, and in September of that year a State of Emergency was
declared
A separate Children’s Committee was formed in 1948 with special officers to be responsible for
all aspects of child care including the running of homes.
Wartime
In 1936 a detailed scheme was prepared to prepare for the need to safeguard the people in the
event of air raids, and by the time the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Act 1937 was passed,
Gloucestershire was well-prepared to meet the power and duties required by government.. A
special committee comprising members of County and City Councils organised a recruiting
drive and the training of thousands of volunteers, greatly assisted by the WVS (Women’s
Voluntary Service).
During the War the Weights and Measures Department had to ensure that food and petrol
rationing was properly observed. Wastage of food became an offence, and papers, rags and
metal had to be salvaged. The County Council cooperated with district councils for salvage of
property for repairs and removal of debris after air raids. Following a very dry spring in 1944
there was a great water shortage and excavators were arranged to clean out ponds. Owing to
the food shortage, the need for school dinners increased and the Gloucestershire Education
Committee added 95 kitchens to the 168 already in use at elementary schools. As in other rural
counties there was a large influx of evacuated children, and the County Council’s archives
include registers of evacuated children and returns from schools of children evacuated to
Gloucestershire, 1939-1945 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Planning, roads and rights of way
Road-building was another responsibility of the County Council, and a sub-committee was
formed to consider plans for a bridge over the lower reaches of the River Severn. In 1935 a
special meeting decided to promote a bill for a road bridge across the river, although the
scheme was not successful and the Severn Bridge was not built until the 1960s.
The County Council was also responsible for motor taxation until 1974, and the surviving
records include licensing registers, files, and an index to the files, c.1939-1974 (D3675,
Gloucestershire Archives).
After the Second World War, the Town and Country Planning Act gave greatly increased
powers to the County Council and a major committee was formed and a Planning Officer
appointed to deal with the siting of houses, change of use of existing buildings, general
development of towns and villages and the preservation of historic buildings. A year or two later
came the creation of nature reserves and the recording and maintenance of public footpaths.
In 1952 the Council was given authority under the Town Development Act to develop towns in
rural areas, including the Yate overspill and subsequent development around Chipping
Sodbury.
Emergency services
The rural police force in Gloucestershire was set up by the Court of Quarter Sessions in the
early 1840s, in spite of petitions in 1841-1842 from many parishes who thought such a force
was an unnecessary expense (Q/AP/8/1, Gloucestershire Archives). Following the Fire Service
Act of 1947 a committee was formed to carry out the County Council’s responsibility for fire
fighting, the protection of people and property and the supply of fire hydrants and water. An
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ambulance service was organised to cover the whole county after the formation of the National
Health Service in 1947, and the ambulance subcommittee minutes survive for 1947-1948
(C/CM/M5/1, Gloucestershire Archives).
Health and social services
The Public Assistance Committee took over the responsibility for the care of the poor from the
Poor Law Unions under the Local Government Act 1929. After the formation of the National
Health Service in 1947, the Welfare Committee was formed to provide for the aged, disabled,
and infirm. This committee was responsible for buying and maintaining homes for elderly,
disabled, blind and partially sighted people, with the long-term object of closing the old
workhouses and institutions. As building was still restricted after the war, several large houses
were bought and converted into residential homes including Oaklands in Almondsbury (C/CC/B/
529, Gloucestershire Archives) and in 1954 the first purpose built residential care home for the
elderly was opened at the The Chase in Kingswood.
Church records
The Diocese of Gloucester was created from the Diocese of Worcester in 1541; the Diocese of
Bristol was created in 1542, also from the Diocese of Worcester. The two dioceses have
remained separate except for two short periods when they were united, between 1562 and 1589
and between 1836 and 1897.
A large quantity of Bristol’s diocesan records were destroyed in the Reform Bill Riots of 1831
but some at least were brought to Gloucester after 1836 where they came to be regarded as
part of the Gloucester records. After the union of the two dioceses in 1836 some of the current
act books, which recorded the diocesan transactions, were kept and used at Gloucester and
together with the diocesan surveys were made to serve for both dioceses. The entries were
completely amalgamated.
Nothing is known of any exchange of records when the diocese of Bristol was reconstituted in
1897. Records held in the Gloucester Diocesan Records (GDR, Gloucestershire Archives)
have been included this guide. There are many references to South Gloucestershire parishes,
including a group of letters relating to the acquisition of Stapleton House near Bristol as a new
episcopal house of residence after the union of the two sees in 1836. They give glimpses of the
wrangling between the Ecclesiastical Commissioners during the extravagant restoration of the
mansion which was sold less than 20 years later at a considerable loss (GDR/A13/4-7, 9,
Gloucestershire Archives). In 1968 the Church Commissioners deposited the original plans.
Diocese of Bristol
The present Diocese of Bristol extends into South Gloucestershire and includes the parishes of
Almondsbury, Alveston, Aust, Bitton, Coalpit Heath, Cold Ashton, Compton Greenfield,
Dodington, Downend, Doynton, Dyrham and Hinton, Filton, Fishponds, Frampton Cotterell,
Frenchay, Hanham, Henbury, Horfield, Iron Acton, Kingswood, Littleton on Severn,
Mangotsfield, Marshfield, Oldland, Olveston, Patchway, Pilning, Pucklechurch, St George (not
to be confused with St George’s Brandon Hill which is in central Bristol), St Philip and Jacob
outparish, Shirehampton, Siston, Stapleton, Stoke Bishop, Tormarton (including West Littleton),
Wapley and Codrington, Warmley, Westbury on Trym, Westerleigh, Wick and Abson,
Winterbourne, Winterbourne Down and Yate. Records for these parishes are held in the Bristol
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Record Office, except Marshfield and Cold Ashton; their records are held at Gloucestershire
Archives at their request.
Among the collection of records of the Bishop of Bristol held in the Bristol Record Office are the
wills and inventories proved in the Bishop’s consistory court between 1564 and 1857. This
collection includes the wills for the South Gloucestershire parishes within the Archdeaconry of
Bristol and Deanery of Stapleton. The wills and inventories for the other parishes covered by
this guide can be found at Gloucestershire Archives although some of the parishes fall within
the diocese of Bristol.
The Archdeaconry of Bristol in 1886 included the Gloucestershire deaneries of Bitton and
Stapleton as well as the city of Bristol. On the reconstitution of the diocese of Bristol in 1897,
the Archdeaconry of Bristol and the rural deaneries remained the same. However in 1901
Clifton was added and in 1919 some parishes in Stapleton Rural Deanery were transferred to
Clifton. In 1927 Stapleton Rural Deanery was renamed Almondsbury Rural Deanery and in
1949 a new Rural Deanery of Stapleton was created. In 1968 the Archdeaconry of Bristol
included the rural deaneries of Almondsbury, Bitton, Clifton and Stapleton (see Diocese of
Gloucester, A Catalogue of the records of the Bishop and Archdeacons by I M Kirby (1968).
Diocese of Gloucester
The records of the Diocese of Gloucester (GDR) are held at Gloucestershire Archives, including
wills and inventories for Gloucestershire and for the South Gloucestershire parishes within the
Diocese of Gloucester. Wills and inventories (where the latter have survived) for some of the
South Gloucestershire parishes in the Diocese of Bristol are also held at Gloucester; see the
individual place entries in this guide for more information.
Nonconformist records
South Gloucestershire has a long tradition of nonconformity. Methodism was particularly strong
due to the visits of John Wesley and George Whitfield. The Downend Methodist Circuit was
formed in 1804 and covered the area north of Bristol from Warmley and Frampton Cotterell in
the east to Thornbury and Oldbury-on-Severn in the west. Primitive Methodism was introduced
into the area in 1833; the first chapel in Kingswood was built in 1841
During the agitation for reform between 1849 and 1851 Bristol and Kingswood particularly
played an important part. Almost three-quarters of the membership of the Kingswood Circuit
broke away to form what became the Kingswood Circuit of the United Methodist Free Churches,
later the United Methodist Church. The Downend area lost many members to the reforming
element. In 1859 the Downend Society, much reduced in membership, was transferred to the
Kingswood Wesleyan Circuit. Winterbourne, with a chapel at Watley’s End, became the centre
of the former Downend circuit in 1919.
Around 1955 the South Gloucestershire Circuit was created out of the Downend Circuit, and the
Staple Hill and Fishponds Circuit became successor to the Kingswood Circuit. The Fishponds
Primitive Methodist Circuit was divided between the two new circuits. In 1971 these two
circuits, with part of Bristol East Circuit, were amalgamated to form Frome Valley Circuit. The
Thornbury area of the South Gloucestershire Circuit joined Bristol North Circuit (35230, 38541
and 39361, Bristol Record Office).
Nearby Frenchay gave strong support to the Society of Friends (42135 and 43328, Bristol
Record Office) There are records of registrations of dissenters’ meeting houses all over South
Gloucestershire in the Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions archive.
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Barton Regis
The area known as Barton Regis was originally a hundred, an ancient term for a subdivision of
a shire, which was taken from the Swineshead hundred as the population of Bristol increased.
The hundred of Barton Regis comprised the parishes of Clifton, Stapleton, Mangotsfield and St
Philip and St Jacob, as well as the extraparochial area known as Kingswood.
The name was given to the Barton Regis Poor Law Union on its formation in 1834, although by
the 1880s it was known as the Clifton Union. The Union comprised the parishes of Clifton,
Compton Greenfield, Filton, Henbury Horfield, St James and St Paul outparish, St Philip and St
Jacob outparish, St George, Shirehampton, Stapleton, Stoke Gifford, Westbury-on-Trym and
Winterbourne.
The name Barton Regis was also used by local government bodies in the late 19th century, first
the Barton Regis Rural Sanitary Authority, comprising the parishes of Compton Greenfield,
Filton, Henbury, Horfield, Shirehampton, Stoke Gifford, Westbury-on-Trym and Winterbourne,
and then the Barton Regis Rural District, comprising the parishes of Henbury, Shirehampton,
Stoke Gifford, Westbury-on-Trym and Winterbourne. The Rural District was abolished in 1904
and the parishes it contained were transferred either to Bristol (most of Henbury, Shirehampton
and Westbury-on-Trym) or to Chipping Sodbury Rural District (Stoke Gifford and Winterbourne).
Kingswood
Kingswood, on the north east edge of Bristol, has never been absorbed by the City, although
the city boundary cuts through its suburban streets, and it has a very different history from its
neighbours.
The Forest of Kingswood was part of the royal domain of the Saxon kings and King Edmund
was assassinated at the royal palace in nearby Pucklechurch in 946. The Forest covered about
18 square miles extending to the Sodbury Hills, to Lansdown near Bath and across the River
Avon to Filwood in Somerset, with Bristol on its western border. As with all royal forests,
Kingswood belonged to neither county nor diocese. Stapleton, which included Fishponds, lay at
the edge of the Forest to the north of the River Frome. At the Domesday survey of 1086,
Fishponds was part of the manor of Bethune (Barton) under the direct authority of the Constable
of Bristol Castle.
The area was crown land and part of the hundred of Barton Regis. In 1228 Henry III granted
Charters of Disafforestation and tracts of land within the forest bounds were converted into
common land or land held in common by the various inhabitants of the surrounding area.
Kingswood Forest was reduced in status to a Royal Chase and cut down in size to 4500 acres
which extended six miles north-east of Bristol and covered present day St George, Upper and
Lower Easton, Bitton, Hanham, Oldland and Brislington together with parts of Stapleton and
Mangotsfield parishes.
In 1631 Charles I handed over Bristol Castle to the Mayor and Burgesses of Bristol and after
that the Chase became prey to all comers who cut down trees, mined coal, quarried stone and
pastured cattle and horses. By 1670 it had been unofficially divided into a number of “Lordships”
or “Liberties” – land claimed without any authority by the Lords of the adjacent manors and
other local landowners. One belonged to Sir John Berkeley, covering part of Stapleton parish,
and another to Thomas Chester, covering the area which later became St George parish.
These two Liberties comprised about 1600 acres out of the 3432 acres that was left of the
Chase by 1652.
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By 1734 the crown agents gave up any struggle against the landowners and around this time
the hamlet of Fishponds developed in the area which was known as New Pools by 1610. By
1779 all common rights were extinguished in the part of Kingswood Common in the parish of
Stapleton, present day Fishponds, under the Stapleton Inclosure Act of 1781, which followed a
detailed survey by Jacob Sturge (Q/RI/134, Gloucestershire Archives; AC/PL/58 and AC/PL/90,
Bristol Record Office). Kingswood became a civil parish in 1894 and was separated from Bitton
in 1921
Kingswood was a great centre of nonconformity, especially Methodism, where Bristol had an
importance second only to London. As the chief city of the west of England, Bristol formed one
of the three focal points of John Wesley's many journeys between London, Newcastle and the
West Country. John Wesley first came to Bristol in 1739 at the pleading of George Whitefield,
who needed Wesley to sustain the work he had begun there while he travelled to America.
When the Bristol churches were closed to him, Whitefield began to speak in the open air to the
colliers of Kingswood, attracting several thousand people to his meetings (5054, Bristol
Reference Library)
Kingswood was also an industrial and manufacturing area, centring around coal mining and the
manufacture of boots and shoes.
Further reading
Handlist of the Contents of the Gloucestershire Record Office fourth edition (1998) ed. David
Smith
A History of Gloucestershire County Council, 1889-1974, by M J Kerr (1977)
Diocese of Gloucester, A catalogue of the Records of the Bishop and Archdeacons, compiled
by Isabel M Kirby (1968)
Diocese of Bristol, A catalogue of the Records of the Bishop and Archdeacons, compiled by
Isabel M Kirby (1970)
City and County of Bristol Guide to the Bristol Archives Office, by E Ralph (1971)
Bristol Bibliography, A catalogue of the books, pamphlets, collectanea etc relating to Bristol
contained in the Central Reference Library ed. E R Norris Mathews (1916)
The Kingswood Forest, Stapleton and Fishponds, by J Penny (2007)
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Sources listed by subject
Boroughs and District Councils....................................................................................................16
Burial grounds and cemeteries.....................................................................................................20
Census..........................................................................................................................................22
Charities........................................................................................................................................23
Coroners.......................................................................................................................................27
Court and prison records..............................................................................................................28
Deeds...........................................................................................................................................31
Diocesan records..........................................................................................................................64
Electoral records...........................................................................................................................73
Estate and family records.............................................................................................................74
Gloucestershire County Council...................................................................................................95
Gloucestershire County Council - general.........................................................................95
Gloucestershire County Council - boundaries...................................................................97
Gloucestershire County Council - building, planning and development.........................104
Hospitals and health services.....................................................................................................108
Inclosure.....................................................................................................................................113
Industry, trade and business......................................................................................................117
Industry, trade and business - general............................................................................117
Industry, trade and business - architects.........................................................................118
Industry, trade and business - banking...........................................................................119
Industry, trade and business - brewing and public houses.............................................119
Industry, trade and business - coal mining and quarrying..............................................120
Industry, trade and business - estate agents..................................................................123
Industry, trade and business - farming............................................................................123
Industry, trade and business - fisheries...........................................................................124
Industry, trade and business – manufacturing and engineering.....................................124
Industry, trade and business - merchants and retailers..................................................126
Industry, trade and business - solicitors..........................................................................126
Industry, trade and business - tradesmen.......................................................................127
Lieutenancy................................................................................................................................128
Local history and antiquarian records........................................................................................129
Manorial records.........................................................................................................................130
Maps...........................................................................................................................................134
For detailed references for individual parishes please see the
‘Places’ section of this guide
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Military and wartime....................................................................................................................157
Newspapers................................................................................................................................168
Nonconformists...........................................................................................................................170
Nonconformists - Baptist.................................................................................................173
Nonconformists - Congregational and United Reformed Church....................................173
Nonconformists - Methodist.............................................................................................175
Nonconformists - Society of Friends...............................................................................178
Parish Councils...........................................................................................................................179
Parish records............................................................................................................................183
Photographs...............................................................................................................................193
Planning and building control.....................................................................................................201
Police, fire brigade and ambulance services..............................................................................203
Poor relief...................................................................................................................................207
Roman Catholic records.............................................................................................................210
Sale particulars...........................................................................................................................211
Schools.......................................................................................................................................217
Societies and voluntary organisations........................................................................................237
Taxation and valuation...............................................................................................................246
Travel and transport...................................................................................................................247
Travel and transport - canals and river navigations........................................................247
Travel and transport - footpaths......................................................................................248
Travel and transport - railways........................................................................................248
Travel and transport - roads and highways.....................................................................249
Utilities........................................................................................................................................255
Utilities - drainage and sewerage....................................................................................255
Utilities - electricity...........................................................................................................257
Utilities - gas....................................................................................................................258
Utilities - water.................................................................................................................258
Wills............................................................................................................................................261
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Boroughs and District Councils
Bristol has been a city and county in its own right since 1373, and has a long tradition of
recordkeeping from the Middle Ages to the present day. The records of the Corporation of
Bristol and its Committees are held at Bristol Record Office; for a more detailed overview of the
administration of the City of Bristol, and the Rural and Urban District Councils that were
absorbed into Bristol between 1897 and 1904, see the introduction to this guide.
In the wider county of Gloucestershire, local government remained largely in the hands of the
ecclesiastical parish vestries until the late 19th century. Poor law unions had been given certain
public health powers relating to rural areas on their creation in 1832, and in 1872 they were
constituted Rural Sanitary Authorities for their districts. The Local Government Act 1894
redesignated urban and rural sanitary authorities as urban and rural district councils, subject to
a requirement that, where possible, the whole of a rural district should lie in one county, which
led to some rearrangement of names and boundaries at the fringes of Gloucestershire.
The districts created in 1894 were subject to some modification as a result of changes in the
southern county boundary in 1897-1904, and to a general modification and rationalization in
1935. The urban and rural districts created at this time remained intact until 1974, when as a
result of the Local Government Act 1972, the county of Avon was created from the parishes in
the south of Gloucestershire, comprising Northavon District and Kingswood Borough.
The functions of district councils include planning and building control.
Additionally, many small towns and large villages had anciently acquired some of the attributes
of borough status but were not accepted as boroughs under the Municipal Corporations Act
1835. Their records usually include minutes, accounts and title deeds, and often papers
concerning schools and charities.
The history of local government functions is analysed in successive editions of W E Jackson,
The structure of local government in England and Wales; for particular functions the reader is
referred to Macmillan, Local Government Law and Administration, 1934 (14 vols), with annual
updates to 1972. (These books are available at Gloucestershire Archives)
This section gives references to the main archives of the district councils for the periods preand post-1974, and then references to other records for specific places, arranged alphabetically
by place.
District Councils and predecessor bodies, 1872-1974
Records of Barton Regis Rural District Council, covering Westbury-on-Trym and Shirehampton
(05035, 05036, 05037, 05038, 05039, 05040, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Horfield Urban District Council, covering Horfield (39866, BCC/S/HUDC, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of Kingswood Urban District Council, 1890-1974, covering Kingswood and
Mangotsfield, (DA8, DC40, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Mangotsfield Urban District Council, covering Downend, Mangotsfield and
Soundwell (DA10, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Sodbury Rural District Council, covering Acton Turville, Chipping Sodbury, Coalpit
Heath, Cold Ashton, Dodington, Doynton, Dyrham and Hinton, Frampton Cotterell, Frenchay,
Great Badminton, Hawkesbury, Horton, Iron Acton, Little Sodbury, Marshfield, Old Sodbury,
Pucklechurch, Rangeworthy, Stoke Gifford, Tormarton, Wapley and Codrington, Westerleigh,
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Wick and Abson, Wickwar, Winterbourne, Winterbourne Down and Yate (DA33, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Thornbury Rural District Council, covering Almondsbury, Alveston, Aust, Charfield,
Compton Greenfield, Cromhall, Elberton, Falfield, Filton, Hill, Littleton-upon-Severn, Oldbury-onSevern, Olveston, Patchway, Pilning and Severn Beach, Rockhampton, Thornbury, Tortworth
and Tytherington (DA38, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Warmley Rural District Council, covering Bitton, Hanham Abbots, Mangotsfield,
Oldland, Siston, Soundwell and Warmley (DA39, Gloucestershire Archives)
District Councils, 1974-1996
Records of Kingswood Borough Council, 1973-1988, covering Bitton, Downend, Hanham
Abbots, Kingswood, Mangotsfield, Oldland, Siston and Soundwell (DC88, DC99, DC105,
DC115, DC119, DC130, DC131, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Northavon District Council, including development plans and footpath maps,
1923-1996, covering Acton Turville, Almondsbury, Alveston, Aust, Avonmouth, Charfield,
Chipping Sodbury, Coalpit Heath, Cold Ashton, Compton Greenfield, Cromhall, Dodington,
Doynton, Dyrham and Hinton, Elberton, Falfield, Filton, Frampton Cotterell, Frenchay, Great
Badminton, Hawkesbury, part of Henbury, Hill, Horton, Iron Acton, Little Sodbury, Littleton-onSevern, Marshfield, Old Sodbury, Oldbury-on-Severn, Olveston, Patchway, Pilning and Severn
Beach, Pucklechurch, Rangeworthy, Rockhampton, Stoke Gifford, Thornbury, Tormarton,
Tortworth, Tytherington, Wapley ad Codrington, Warmley, Westerleigh, Wick and Abson,
Wickwar, Winterbourne, Winterbourne Down and Yate (DC85, DC89, DC93, DC104, DC110,
DC126, DC132, DC147, Gloucestershire Archives)
South Gloucestershire Council, 1996 onwards
Records of South Gloucestershire Council, including:
Local government reorganisation reports and papers, 1990s (DC125, SGC, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records relating to the Avon Ring Road, 1982-2001 (SGC, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records relating to the Filton Bypass, 1982-1994 (SGC, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records relating to the Emerson’s Green development, 1989 (SGC, Gloucestershire
Archives)
South Gloucestershire/Avon
Records of South Gloucestershire Youth Civic Council, 1946-1958 (DA8, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Barton Regis
Barton Regis Rural District Council byelaws, 1898 (C/CC/D/2/15, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Veale Benson and Co of Bristol and predecessors, solicitors, including papers
concerning Barton Regis Rural District Council, 19th century, (see person and place indexes in
searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Bristol
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Records of the City of Bristol (BCC, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Borough of Gloucester, including registers of recognizances relating to merchant
ships sailing from Bristol, 1643-1652 (GBR/G14, Gloucestershire Archives)
Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Sodbury Rural District Council byelaws, 1936, 1939 (C/CC/D/2/10, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Northavon District Council, including report on proposed conservation area,
c.1976-1992 (DC110, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Borough of Chipping Sodbury including borough court papers, rentals, accounts
and deeds c.1230-1959; overseers' papers 1610-1839 and census of borough 1795 (D2071,
Gloucestershire Archives)
Henbury
Records of Barton Regis Rural District Council: notices of intent to erect and amend buildings in
Henbury parish, 1900-1904 (DA19, Gloucestershire Archives)
Kingswood
Kingswood Urban District Council byelaws, 1939-1958 (C/CC/D/2/8, Gloucestershire Archives)
Mangotsfield
Records of Kingswood Borough Council, including Downend Sports Centre Joint Management
Committee minutes, 1984-1995 (DC115, DC130, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldland
Records of Northavon District Council, including Longwell Green Development Area map (preland use), mid 1980s (DC110, Gloucestershire Archives)
St George, Bristol
Records of St George Urban District Council (39865, Bristol Record Office)
Shirehampton
Records of Barton Regis Rural Sanitary Authority, 1888-1889 (22936, Bristol Record Office)
Stapleton
Records of the Greenway family of Bristol, including papers relating to Stapleton Local Board of
Health, mainly 19th century (22936, Bristol Record Office)
concerning Stapleton Urban District Council 19th century (see person and place indexes in
Thornbury
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Subjects
Thornbury Rural District Council byelaws, 1939 (C/CC/D/2/12/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wickwar
Records of Wickwar Corporation, (1833-1881) (D8645, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Burial grounds and cemeteries
Under the terms of the Burial Act 1853, parish vestries could establish burial boards to maintain
and administer burial grounds. These powers were later extended to urban and rural districts,
municipal boroughs and (from 1894) parish councils. It was also possible for more than one
authority to combine to establish a joint burial committee. For the background to the relevant
legislation see Macmillan, Local Government Law and Administration, vol 2, 1934, pp316-318
(available at Gloucestershire Archives). For an overview of cemetery provision in Bristol, see
the introduction to this guide.
Acton Turville
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including Acton Turville, papers relating to burial
ground, 1909-1910 (GDR/F6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Charfield
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including:
Papers relating to Charfield burial ground, 1912 (GDR/F6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Consecration papers relating to Charfield churchyard extension, 1911-1912 (GDR/F2,
Downend
Records of Mangotsfield and Downend Burial Board (DA10, Gloucestershire Archives)
Doynton
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including Doynton: papers relating to burial
ground, 1864 (GDR/F6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Falfield
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including Falfield: papers relating to burial
Mangotsfield
Marshfield
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including Marshfield: papers relating to burial
ground, 1892-94 (GDR/F6, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Old Sodbury
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including consecration papers relating to Old
Sodbury churchyard extension, 1905 (GDR/F2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldland
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including Oldland: papers relating to burial
St George, Bristol
Registers for Avon View Cemetery, 1883-1904 (FCC/A/1, Bristol Record Office)
Stapleton
Records of J W Ward of Bristol, solicitors, including papers concerning Greenbank Cemetery
(41214, Bristol Record Office)
Stoke Bishop
Records of Barton Regis Rural Sanitary Authority relating to Stoke Bishop Cemetery, 1891
Thornbury
Records of Thornbury Burial Board (P330a, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Census
Censuses of the population were taken every ten years from 1841 onwards (with the exception
of 1941). The detailed returns are available for every census over 100 years old and include
information on every person present in each house on the night the census was taken.
Census returns for every parish in the South Gloucestershire area, 1841-1901, are available in
the searchroom at Bristol Record Office.
Additionally all the censuses between 1841 and 1901 are available on ancestry.co.uk. Users
are required to subscribe in order to use the data, but the site is accessible free of charge from
all libraries in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, as well as in the searchroom at
Gloucestershire Archives.
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Charities
Charities were often founded by local people who left money for causes including caring for the
poor and establishing schools. Their administration was often taken over by solicitors or local
authorities, and their records can be found among the archives of Anglican and nonconformist
churches, schools, solicitors’ practices and local authorities.
A large number of charities and benefactions administered by the Corporation of Bristol were
transferred to the Bristol Municipal Charity Trustees in 1835 (33041, Bristol Record Office),
although there were some exceptions which remained with the Corporation. Many of these
charities had landholdings in South Gloucestershire.
Almondsbury
Records of Bristol Municipal Charities including plan of Queen Elizabeth's Hospital estate, 1864
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers of Robert Sandford's Bequest
concerning Henbury Church Lands, relating to Easter Compton (35749, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Marsh Common Trustees (D895, Gloucestershire Archives)
Avonmouth
Records of Bristol Municipal Charities relating to Avonmouth Estate, 1921 (33041, Bristol
Record Office)
Chipping Sodbury
Records of Chipping Sodbury United Charities, 1969-1999 (D8624, Gloucestershire Archives)
Clifton
Records of Clifton Rocks Railway Trust (43945/2, Bristol Record Office)
Compton Greenfield
concerning Henbury Church Lands, relating to Compton Greenfield and Easter Compton
Doynton
Records of the Charity of Wellbeloved Wilkes (33792, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Wilkes Charity (41918, Bristol Record Office)
Dyrham and Hinton
Records of Langton's Charity (D1034, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Frenchay
Records of Bristol Municipal Charities relating to property of Queen Elizabeth's Hospital,
including the Winterbourne Estate and Frenchay Manor House, 1903-1904 (33041, Bristol
Record Office)
Henbury
Records of Bristol Municipal Charities including:
Plan of Queen Elizabeth's Hospital estate, 1864 (33041, Bristol Record Office)
Papers relating to Kingsweston House, 1847 and 1936, and Kingsweston estate, 1921
Papers relating to lands of Queen Elizabeth's Hospital at Hallen Marsh, 1904 (33041, Bristol
Record Office)
Papers relating to manor of Henbury, 1657-1835 (33041, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including:
Records of Robert Sandford's Bequest concerning Henbury Church Lands, relating to
Ableton, Stowick and Henbury (35749, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Anthony Edmond's and Christopher Cole's Charities relating to Henbury Free
School (35749, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Henbury Village Hall Charity (42573, Bristol Record Office)
Horfield
concerning Henbury Church Lands (35749, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including notes on the history of Bishop Monk's
Horfield Trust (1852)-1952 (originally established to promote building and repair of glebe
houses and to provide curates for needy incumbents), 1952 (GDR/A17/2/49, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Mangotsfield
Records of Alderman Steven's Charity, 1622-1949 (12145, Bristol Record Office)
Oldbury-on-Severn
Records of the Charity of Thomas Slymbridge of Thornbury (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Olveston
Pilning and Severn Beach
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Records of Rev Walter Gray's Charity relating to Severn Beach (37268, Bristol Record Office)
Pucklechurch
Rangeworthy
Shirehampton
Records of Bristol Municipal Charities relating to Shirehampton Estate, 1921 (33041, Bristol
Record Office)
Siston
South Gloucestershire
Records of the Forest of Avon Partnership (43848/Ad/1/2, Bristol Record Office)
Thornbury
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including:
Papers of the Stephen Charity (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers relating to Sir John Stafford's Charity Almshouses (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Attwells Free School (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Jones, White and Edwards Free School (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Ollney's Charity (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Cossham Hall Charity (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Thornbury Grammar School Trustees (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Thornbury Town Trust (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Sir J Stafford's Hospital relating to Kington and Thornbury (35192, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including accounts of Sir John Stafford's Hospital,
1665-1710 (D866, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Thornbury Free School, also known as Atwell's Free School (35192, Bristol Record
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Subjects
Office)
Records of Thornbury Town Trust (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Warmley
Westbury-on-Trym
Wick and Abson
Records of Alderman Steven's Charity relating to Bridgeyate, 1622-1949 (12145, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of Osborne Ward Vassall Abbot and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including:
Records of Alderman Steven's Charity relating to the Wick and Abson Estate, 1877-1919
Papers of the Stevens Charity relating to the manor of Wick and Abson, 1622-1879 (12145,
12146, Bristol Record Office)
Wickwar
Records of Alexander Hosea's Charity School (D6651, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Wickwar Combined Charities (D4952, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne
Papers relating to lands of Trinity Hospital, 1903 (33041, Bristol Record Office)
Papers relating to manor of Winterbourne, 1657-1835 (33041, Bristol Record Office)
Papers relating to property of Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, including the Winterbourne Estate
and Frenchay Manor House, 1903-1904 (33041, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Gloucestershire County Council as trustee including non-ecclesiastical charities of
Winterbourne, 1899-1913 (C/CC/V/5/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Coroners
Coroners are royal officers who since the 12th century have held inquests on matters affecting
crown rights in the county; especially sudden death, wreck and treasure trove. Until 1844 any
county coroner could act in any part of Gloucestershire, other than the boroughs of Tewkesbury
and Gloucester which each had their own coroner; since 1844 each county coroner has had
responsibility for his own district; the south of the county was covered by the Lower Division
between 1844 and 1974. In 1888 county coroners ceased to be elected by the freeholders.
Coroners' districts were altered in 1966 and 1974, with the creation of the Avon coroners’
district.
Records of the County Coroner, Lower Division, including Acton Turville, Almondsbury,
Alveston, Aust, Bitton, Charfield, Cold Ashton, Cromhall, Dodington, Downend, Doynton,
Dyrham and Hinton, Elberton, Falfield, Filton, Frampton Cotterell, Frenchay, Great Badminton,
Hanham Abbots, Hawkesbury, Hill, Horton, Iron Acton, Kingswood, Little Sodbury, Littletonupon-Severn, Mangotsfield, Marshfield, Old Sodbury, Oldbury-on-Severn, Oldland, Olveston,
Patchway, Pilning and Severn Beach, Pucklechurch, Rangeworthy, Redland, Rockhampton,
Siston, Soundwell, Stoke Gifford, Thornbury, Tormarton, Tortworth, Tytherington, Wapley and
Codrington, Warmley, Westerleigh, Wickwar, Winterbourne, Winterbourne Down and Yate
(CO1, CO8, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the County Coroner, John C Ball of Stroud, including Bitton, Chipping Sodbury, St
George, Bristol, Stapleton, and Wick and Abson (CO3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions including:
Sessions order rolls including coroners' inquests; coroners' accounts, 1752-1797 (Q/SR,
Bristol
Records of the County Coroner, William Joyner of Berkeley (D260, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Court and prison records
The early history of the petty sessional (magistrates’ court) divisions is summarized in
Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions Archives 1660-1889 (Gloucestershire County Council, 1958),
pp70-72 (available at Gloucestershire Archives). The divisions originally comprised Hundreds
or groups of Hundreds, but were extensively revised in 1840; most of the surviving records date
from after this reorganization. Boundary changes between 1840 and 1950 were few, and
mostly related to the changes in the county boundary in the 1930s. Pressure to review and
amalgamate divisions began in the early 1950s and continued apace (see especially Dr John W
Raine, Preparing for the 1990s: an organisational review of the Gloucestershire Magistrates
Courts, INLOGOV July 1984, available at Gloucestershire Archives).
The Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions were responsible for the running of the various gaols and
Houses of Correction in the county, including Lawfords Gate House of Correction. An index to
the registers of some of the Gloucestershire gaols forms part of Gloucestershire Archives’
Genealogical Database.
A prison was built at Fishponds in 1779 to house French prisoners of war, and it served as a
prison until 1833 when it became a workhouse and lunatic asylum to ease overcrowding at the
city workhouse at St Peter’s Hospital.
Some Gloucestershire County Court proceedings were held at Bristol, and references to these
are included below.
Magistrates’ courts
Records of Lawfords Gate Petty Sessions Division, including Bitton, Coalpit Heath, Downend,
Doynton, Filton, Fishponds, Frampton Cotterell, Frenchay, Hanham Abbots, Henbury, Horfield,
Kingswood, Mangotsfield, Oldland, Redland, St George, Bristol, Siston, Soundwell, Southmead,
Stapleton, Stoke Bishop, Stoke Gifford, Warmley, Westbury-on-Trym, Westerleigh, Wick and
Abson, Winterbourne and Winterbourne Down (PS/LA, PS/SO, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of North Avon (or Avon North) Petty Sessions Division, including Bitton, Chipping
Sodbury, Coalpit Heath, Cold Ashton, Dodington, Downend, Doynton, Dyrham and Hinton,
Filton, Fishponds, Frampton Cotterell, Frenchay, Great Badminton, Hanham Abbots,
Hawkesbury, Henbury, Horfield, Horton, Kingswood, Little Sodbury, Mangotsfield, Marshfield,
Old Sodbury, Oldland, Pucklechurch, Redland, St George, Bristol, Siston, Soundwell,
Southmead, Stapleton, Stoke Bishop, Stoke Gifford, Tormarton, Wapley and Codrington,
Warmley, Westbury-on-Trym, Westerleigh, Wick and Abson, Wickwar, Winterbourne,
Winterbourne Down and Yate (PS/AV, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Sodbury Petty Sessions Division, including Chipping Sodbury, Cold Ashton,
Dodington, Dyrham and Hinton, Great Badminton, Hawkesbury, Horton, Little Sodbury,
Marshfield, Old Sodbury, Pucklechurch, Tormarton, Wapley and Codrington, Wickwar and Yate
(PS/SO, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Thornbury Petty Sessions Division, including Almondsbury, Alveston, Aust,
Charfield, Elberton, Falfield, Hill, Iron Acton, Littleton-upon-Severn, Oldbury-on-Severn,
Olveston, Patchway, Pilning and Severn Beach, Rangeworthy, Rockhampton, Thornbury,
Tytherington, (PS/TH, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Wotton-under-Edge Petty Sessions Division, including Cromhall, Tortworth,
(PS/WO, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Criminal Register indexes to Home Office registers: volume 4, Gloucestershire and Bristol,
1805-1816 (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Acton Turville
List of freeholders liable to serve upon juries of the Assizes and Quarter Sessions, 1813
(Q/SJb/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol
Records of Gloucester County Court held at Bristol, including minutes, 1847-1890 (BCC/J,
Bristol Record Office)
Records of Lawfords Gate House of Correction (Q/Gla, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Newton family of Barrs Court, Bitton, including records relating to Newgate
Prison (D1844, Gloucestershire Archives)
Chipping Sodbury
Records of Chipping Sodbury County Court held at Bristol (BCC/J/Cty, Bristol Record Office)
Cromhall
Records of H M Prison Leyhill, Cromhall, including the Prison Officers' Training School journal,
1982-1986 and photograph album of staff (named) attending training courses, 1973-1985
(D9727, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dodington
Dyrham and Hinton
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Fishponds
Records of the County Coroner, William Joyner of Berkeley, including references to French
prisoners of war in prison at Fishponds, 1790-1823 (D260, Gloucestershire Archives)
Little Sodbury
Old Sodbury
List of freeholders liable to serve upon juries of the Assizes and Quarter Sessions, 1807,
1813 (Q/SJb/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury
Papers concerning the murder trial of the Catgrove poachers, 1816 (35192, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of Thornbury County Court held at Bristol, 1868-late 20th century (BCC/J/Cty, Bristol
Record Office)
Tormarton
Wapley and Codrington
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Deeds
Title deeds survive in many different types of collection, including estate and family archives,
solicitors’ collections, and the records of businesses, schools, charities, societies and many
other bodies. Where possible references to deeds have been extracted and placed here, but
researchers looking for title deeds should also check the collections mentioned in the Estate
and Family Records section in particular, as well as the Local and Antiquarian Records and
Manorial Records sections, as it has not always been possible to separate the references.
Records of Meade King and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in South
Gloucestershire (33748, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Osborne Ward Vassall and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in
South Gloucestershire, 17th-19th centuries (D1697, Gloucestershire Archives)
Acton Turville
Deeds of property in Acton Turville (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Bircham and Co of London, solicitors, including deed of property in Acton Turville,
1717 (D6914, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Forrester and Forrester of Chippenham (Wiltshire), solicitors, including deeds of
property in Acton Turville, 1673-1755 (D7879, Gloucestershire Archives)
Almondsbury
Deeds of property in Almondsbury (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Almondsbury, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Almondsbury, 1639-1772 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Patchway (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bobbets, Harvey and Gore of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of the Over Court
Estate (40036, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bristol City Council, including leases of property in Almondsbury, 16th and 17th
centuries (BCC/F/E/1, Bristol Record Office)
Records of C T Jefferies of Bristol, bookseller, including deeds and related papers of property in
Tockington, 13th century-18th century (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office, and at Bristol Central Library)
Records of the Prosser family and predecessors of Almondsbury, including deeds of property in
Almondsbury, c.1660-1959 (D12029, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Crossman and Thurston of Thornbury, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Almondsbury (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Copy deeds of the Tockington Estate, 1698-1856, from the Peach family of Tockington
Deeds of property in Almondsbury and Tockington (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Earthcott Green,
from the Langton family of Bristol (D2697, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of J P Sturge and Sons of Bristol, land agents, chartered surveyors and auctioneers,
including deeds and related papers relating to property in The Lea and Gaunts Earthcott, 17th
-20th centuries (32395, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Mullings Ellett and Co of Cirencester, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Almondsbury, 1742-1904, from the Chester-Master family of Cirencester and Almondsbury
Records of Osborne Ward Vassall Abbot and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds and
related papers of property in Almondsbury, 1580-1832 (12148, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Chester family including deeds and related papers of property in Almondsbury,
1650-1828 (99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 8928, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Almondsbury (D4018,
Records of the Morton Grange Estate, Thornbury, including deeds and related papers of
property in Almondsbury, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Player family of South Gloucestershire, including deeds of property in Gaunts
Earthcott and Tockington (D5090, Gloucestershire Archives)
Alveston
Deeds of property in Alveston (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Alveston, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Rudgeway (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bridges, Sawtell and Adams of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Alveston (D4647, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Alveston, from the
Langton family of Bristol (D2697, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Alveston (D4018,
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Alveston (D4365,
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Alveston (D866,
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Records of Thurstons and Setchell of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including deeds
of property in Alveston (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Aust
Deed of manor and mansion house, buildings and land in Aust, 1710 (D10235, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deed of property in Aust, 1774 (D2462, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Aust, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
including:
Deeds and related papers relating to property in Aust, 17th -20th centuries (32395, Bristol
Record Office)
Deeds of property in Aust (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Aust (28048, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Aust (D4365,
Avonmouth
Records of the Greenway family of Bristol, including deeds and related papers of property in
Avonmouth, mainly 19th century (22936, Bristol Record Office)
Barton Regis
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Barton Regis
Records of the Haynes family of Downend in Mangotsfield and Westbury-on-Trym, including
deeds of property in Barton Regis (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Bitton
Abstracts of title of Rock House Farm, including plan, (1807)-1855 (D6810, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Bitton, 1692-1696 (D247, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deed of property in Bitton, 1701 (D150, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Bitton, 1673-1816 (D185, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of Flowers House and Brice Fishers, Bitton, 1721-1815 (D1966, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Bitton (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Deeds of property in Bitton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Bitton, 1695-1741/2 (D2139, Gloucestershire Archives)
Draft deeds of property in Bitton, 1814 (D83, Gloucestershire Archives)
Lease of cottage, 1752 (D1587, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Bobbets, Harvey and Gore of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Bitton
Bitton (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Bitton, from the
Records of Gregory Rowcliffe and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds relating to Bitton,
Records of Markby, Stewart and Wadeson of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Bitton, 1759-1840 (D1987, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Marshfield Parish Council, including deeds of property in Bitton, 1702-1923 (P213a,
Records of Merrimans of Marlborough (Wiltshire), solicitors, including deeds of property in
Bitton, (c.1657)-1665 (D4769, Gloucestershire Archives)
related papers of property in Bitton, from the Miles family of Bristol, 1624-1858 (12151, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of Rev H T Ellacombe, vicar of Bitton, including deeds and related papers of property
in Bitton, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office, and
at Bristol Central Library)
Records of Sprott, Stokes and Turnbull of Shrewsbury, solicitors, including schedule of deeds of
property in Bitton, 1847 (D2279, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Stanley, Wasbrough and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds and related papers
of property in Bitton, 1795-1858 (D1859, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Stephenson, Harwood and Tatham of London, solicitors, including deeds of property
in Upton Cheyney, 1830-1882, (D1794, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Stileman, Neate and Topping of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Bitton 1796-1814 (D4316, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including deeds of property in Bitton, 1598-1798
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Bitton (D4018,
deeds of property in Bitton (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Howard family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Bitton, Upton
Cheyney and North Common (D108, Gloucestershire Archives)
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property in Bitton, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Munro family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Bitton, 1762-19th century
(4387, 8024, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Pearsall family of Bitton, including deeds of land in Bitton, 1695-1890 (D7217,
Records of the Whittington family of Cold Ashton, including deeds of the Hamswell Estate,
17th-19th centuries (D1843, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Willoughby family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Bitton, 1663-1741
Records of Veale, Benson and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds and related papers of
the Londonderry Farm estate in Bitton, 1652-1866 (D1964, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol
Deed of property in Bristol, 1654 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of parcel of meadow in Micklemead, 1767 (D2885, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Bristol, 1640-1659 (D21, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Bristol, including pedigree of Bengough family, 1770-1913 (D892,
Bristol (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Bristol (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Bristol, 1838-1859, from the Ward family of Tockington (D1606,
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including:
Deeds of property in Bristol, from the Langton family of Bristol (D189, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Temple Street and elsewhere in Bristol, from the Langton family of
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in St Stephen's, St
James Barton, Temple, Castle Green, Hotwells, Redcliffe and St James, Bristol (D4018,
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Bristol, including
property in the parishes of St James and St Paul (D4365, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Morton Grange Estate, Thornbury, including deeds of property in Bristol,
Records of the Stinchcombe family of Wickwar, including deeds of property in Bristol (D6621,
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including:
Deeds of property in Horse Fair, St James (D866, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Charfield
Deed of property in Charfield 1690/1 (D247, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Charfield (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Charfield, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Charfield, 1619/20-1839 (D2180, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Charfield, 1636-1764 (D2462, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of Spring Cottage, 21 Station Road, 1817-1955 (D5409, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Charfield, (1682)-1816, from the Alway family of Iron Acton (D1606,
Records of Goldingham and Jotcham of Wotton-under-Edge, solicitors, including:
Deeds of property in Charfield, 1671-1870, from the Allway and Park families of Kingswood
Deeds of property in Charfield, from the Hopkins family of Wotton-under-Edge (D654,
Records of Slaughter and May of London, solicitors, including deeds and related papers of
property in Charfield, 1799-1967 (D6909, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Sotheron-Estcourt family of Shipton Moyne, including deeds and related papers
of property in Charfield, 1658-1851 (D1571, Gloucestershire Archives)
Chipping Sodbury
Copy deeds of property in Chipping Sodbury, (1605-1665) (D2066, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deed of property in Chipping Sodbury, 1397 (D135, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Chipping Sodbury, 1688 (D185, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Chipping Sodbury (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Chipping Sodbury, 15th century-20th century (see person and place
indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Chipping Sodbury, 16th century-19th century (D1837, Gloucestershire
Archives)
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Archives)
Deeds of property in Chipping Sodbury, 19th and early 20th centuries (D8309, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of J W Ward of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds and related papers of property in
Chipping Sodbury (41214, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Merriman, White and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Chipping Sodbury, 1855-1882 (D1310, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Forrester and Forrester of Malmesbury (Wiltshire), including deeds of property in
in Chipping Sodbury, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record
Office, and at Bristol Central Library)
Records of the Burcombe family of Chipping Sodbury, including deeds of property in Chipping
Sodbury, 1670-1764 (D6267, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including deeds and related papers concerning
land and buildings in Chipping Sodbury adjoining the Swan Inn, 1910 (GDR/A17/1,
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Chipping Sodbury
Records of the Stephens and Hartley families of Little Sodbury, including deeds of property in
Chipping Sodbury (D871, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Chipping Sodbury
Records of the Turner family of Chipping Sodbury and area including deeds of farm land in
Records of Webber, Bull and Naish of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of land in Chipping
Clifton
Deed of property in Clifton, 1824 (D2761, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of parsonage house and land in Clifton, 1719-1720 (D9775, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Clifton, 13th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Records of Bobbets, Harvey and Gore of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Clifton
Clifton (D4647, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Clifton (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Clifton from the Crossman family of Olveston (D1606, Gloucestershire
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Archives)
Records of J W Ward of Bristol, solicitors, including:
Deeds and related papers of property in Clifton (38799, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds and related papers of property in Clifton (41214, Bristol Record Office )
Records of Joseph Langley, including deeds of property in Clifton (11054, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Lloyd, Burch, Inskip and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Clifton, 1675-1906 (25071, 26990, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Meade King and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Clifton
Deeds and related papers of property in Clifton, 1580-1832 (12148, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds and related papers of property in Clifton, from the Miles family of Bristol, 1624-1858
Deeds of property in Clifton from the Worrall family of Bristol, 1737-1890 (12149, Bristol
Record Office)
deeds of property in Clifton, 1812 (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Jefferis family of Henbury, including deeds and related papers of property in
Clifton, 19th century (38797, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including deeds of property in the manor of
Clifton (SMV, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Stinchcombe family of Wickwar, including deeds of property in Clifton (D6621,
Records of Wansbrough, Robinson, Taylor and Taylor, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Clifton (11288, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Withers of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Clifton (40950, Bristol
Record Office)
Deeds of property in Royal York Crescent and Nelson Place, Clifton, 1812-1899 (44054, Bristol
Record Office)
Deed of 9, 10 and 11 Upper Park Street, Clifton, 1850 (44253, Bristol Record Office)
Cold Ashton
Deed of property in Cold Ashton, 1844 (D8910, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Cold Ashton, 1796-1803 (D185, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Cold Ashton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Cold Ashton, 1739-1810 (D2277, Gloucestershire Archives)
Cold Ashton, 13th century-18th century (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Cold Ashton, from
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the Langton family of Bristol (D189, Gloucestershire Archives)
in Cold Ashton, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office,
and at Bristol Central Library)
deeds of property in Toghill (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Compton Greenfield
Deeds of the manor of Compton Greenfield, 1630s-1880s (D8960, Gloucestershire Archives)
Compton Greenfield (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Almondsbury and
Compton Greenfield (35447, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Compton Greenfield
Cromhall
Deed of property in Cromhall, 1700 (D4252, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of Ashworthy Farm, Cromhall, [19th century-20th century] (D5084, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Cromhall (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Cromhall, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Cromhall, 1856-1889 (D213, Gloucestershire Archives)
Lease of property in Cromhall, 1708 (8030, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Cromhall, from
Deeds of property in Cromhall, 1519-1897, from the Pope family of Cromhall, Falfield,
Kingscote and Wickwar (D654, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Cromhall, 1680-1874, from the Manning family of Cromhall (D654,
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Cromhall (D4018,
property in Cromhall, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including deeds of property in Cromhall (SMV,
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of property in Cromhall, 1668-1908 (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dodington
Deeds of property in Dodington (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Dodington (D4018,
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Dodington (28048, Bristol
Record Office)
property in Dodington, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dodington, 1761-1936 (D10607, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Webber, Bull and Naish of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of land in Dodington,
Downend
Deed of property in Downend, 1937 (D8944, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Goldingham and Jotcham of Wotton-under-Edge, solicitors, including deeds of
Downend, 1680-1874, from the Manning family of Cromhall (D654, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Meade King and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of Downend Chapel,
1715-1937 (21511, 25014, 28410, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Pictons of Luton, solicitors, including deeds of property in Downend and Staple Hill
Records of the Haynes family of Downend and Westbury-on-Trym, including deeds of property
in Downend (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Veale Benson and Co of Bristol and predecessors, solicitors, including deeds and
related papers concerning property in Downend (22936, Bristol Record Office)
Doynton
Deed of property in Doynton, 1767 (D2462, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Doynton, 1673-1771 (D185, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Doynton (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Doynton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Doynton, 1713-1775 (D2139, Gloucestershire Archives)
Doynton, 13th century-18th century (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
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in Doynton, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office,
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including deed of property in Doynton, 1598 (D421,
deeds of property in Doynton (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Deed of Toghill Ham, Doynton, 1879 (44507, Bristol Record Office)
Dyrham and Hinton
Deed of property in Dyrham, 1775 (D1349, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Hinton, 1770 (D185, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Dyrham (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
in Dyrham and Hinton, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record
deeds of property in Dyrham (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Elberton
Deeds of property in Elberton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Elberton (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
related papers of property in Elberton, from the Miles family of Bristol, 1624-1858 (12151, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Elberton (D4365,
Records of the Player family of South Gloucestershire, including deeds of property in Elberton
Falfield
Deeds of property in Falfield (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of Teazle Cottage, Whitfield, Falfield, 1754-2003 (D10341, Gloucestershire Archives)
Falfield, 1519-1897, from the Pope family of Cromhall, Falfield, Kingscote and Wickwar (D654,
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Falfield (D4018,
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Records of the Howard family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Falfield (D108,
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Falfield (D866,
Filton
Deeds of property in Filton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Filton, 1945-1951 (D12401, Gloucestershire Archives)
related papers of property in Filton, 1580-1832 (12148, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Pictons of Luton, solicitors, including deeds of property in Filton (43521, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Filton (28048, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of Wellingtons of Gloucester, solicitors, including deeds of property in Filton (40591,
Fishponds
Records of Harley and Duval of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of Fishponds House from the
Bompas family, 1813-1822 (49646, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Lyons Davidson of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Fishponds
related papers of property in Fishponds (39519, Bristol Record Office)
Deed of land at Maywood Crescent, Fishponds, 1937 (44317, Bristol Record Office)
Frampton Cotterell
Deeds and related papers of property in Frampton Cotterell, 1680-1777 (D185, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Frampton Cotterell (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Bridges, Sawtell and Adams of London, solicitors, including:
Deeds of property in Frampton Cotterell, (1687)-1904, from the Hardwicke family of
Tytherington (D4647, Gloucestershire Archives)
Frampton Cotterell (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Lyons Davidson of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Frampton
Cotterell (40694, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Mann, Rodway and Green of Trowbridge (Wiltshire), solicitors, including deeds of
property in Frampton Cotterell (D4890, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Osborne Ward Vassall Abbott and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of
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property in Frampton Cotterell, from the Player family of Bristol, 1719-1881 (12161, Bristol
Record Office)
in the manor of Gostling, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Frampton Cotterell
Frampton Cotterell, 1760s (22936, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Frampton Cotterell
property in Frampton Cotterell, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Player family of South Gloucestershire, including deeds of property in Frampton
Cotterell (D5090, Gloucestershire Archives)
Frenchay
Deeds of property in Frenchay, (1767)-1838 (D9184, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of David Langley and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Frenchay
related papers of property in Frenchay, from the Miles family of Bristol, 1624-1858 (12151,
in Frenchay, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office,
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Frenchay (28048, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the Player family of South Gloucestershire, including deeds of property in Frenchay
Great Badminton
Deeds of property in Great Badminton (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Great Badminton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place
Hanham Abbots
Deed of property in Hanham Abbots, 1600 (D1804, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Hanham (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Hanham, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Hanham, 1685-1830 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Hanham, from the
in Hanham, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office,
Hanham, 1796-1814 (D4316, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including deeds of property in Hanham, 1598-1741
Records of the Elbridge family, including deeds of property at Hanham Mills, 1740-1777 (AC,
Hawkesbury
Deed of land called Walesley [Wazzlemead] in Hildesley [Hillesley], 1266 (D8661,
Deed of land in Middle Ground in Hawkesbury, 1691 (D9131, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of the New Mills Estate in Alderley and Hawkesbury, 1597-1838 (D8548, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deed of property in Hawkesbury and Hillesley, 1682/3 (D5400, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Hawkesbury, Hillesley and Kilcot, 1670-1868 (D10187, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Hawkesbury, 1619-1869 (D185, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Archives)
Deeds of property in Hawkesbury (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Hawkesbury, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Records of Bobbets, Harvey and Gore of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Hawkesbury Upton (40036, Bristol Record Office)
Hawkesbury (D4647, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of Hawkesbury, 1680-1819, from the Larton family of Alderley (D654, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Hawkesbury, 1546-1985 (D654, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Hawkesbury, 1671-1870, from the Allway and Park families of
Kingswood (D654, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Penley, Milward and Bayley of Dursley, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Hawkesbury, (1619)-1986 (D2078, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Rickerbys of Cheltenham, solicitors, including deeds of property in Hawkesbury,
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Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Little Badminton
Deeds and related papers concerning land adjoining Hawkesbury Church School to be used
as gardens, 1924 (GDR/A17/1/38, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers concerning site of church at Hawkesbury, 1924 (GDR/A17/1/37,
Records of the Stinchcombe family of Wickwar, including deeds of property in Hawkesbury
Henbury
Deed of property in Henbury 1675 (D247, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Henbury [1658]-1737 (D185, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Crooks Marsh (8930, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Henbury (43696, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Henbury, 13th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Henbury, 1638-1768 (7837, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Henbury, 1650-1735 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Henbury, 1677 (7966, Bristol Record Office)
Henbury (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Compton (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Charlton (35447,
including deeds and related papers relating to property in Henbury, 17th -20th centuries (32395,
Henbury (41214, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Meade King and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of Coombe House,
1670-1824 (08018, 08019, 08020, 39488, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Merrimans of Marlborough (Wiltshire), solicitors, including deed of property in
Henbury, 1680 (D4769, Gloucestershire Archives)
property in Henbury and Lawrence Weston, from the Player family of Bristol, 1719-1881 (12161,
Records of the Cann Lippincott family of Over Court, Almondsbury, including deeds, 1652-19th
century (D10904, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Chester family including deeds and related papers of property in Henbury,
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Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Henbury (D4018,
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Henbury and Charlton,
including the Blaise Castle Estate (28048, Bristol Record Office)
deed of property in Kings Weston, 1627, and Henbury (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Jefferis family of Henbury, including deeds and related papers of Hill End House,
Henbury, 19th century (38797, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Willoughby family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Henbury and Kings
Weston, 1643-1723 (09465, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Wells, Hodsman, Crossman and Co of Thornbury, including deeds of Blaise Castle
Hill
Deeds of property in Hill (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Hill, 1619/20-1783 (D2180, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Crossman and Thurston of Thornbury, solicitors, including deeds of property in Hill
Hill (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Jenner-Fust family of Hill, including deeds of property in Hill, c.1230-1905 (D908,
Records of the Sotheron-Estcourt family of Shipton Moyne, including lease of property in Hill,
Horfield
Deeds of property in Horfield (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Horfield, 13th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Horfield (40036, Bristol Record Office)
Records of David Langley and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Horfield
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Horfield (35447,
Horfield, 1675-1906 (25071, 26990, Bristol Record Office)
in Horfield, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office, and
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry concerning episcopal estates, including lease of
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the Manor of Horfield, 1849 (GDR/G2/3/Box 1/14677, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Horfield (D866,
Deeds of 8 (later 17) Claremont Road, Bishopston, Horfield, 1849-1985 (44292, Bristol Record
Office)
Horton
Deeds of property in Horton (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Horton (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Horton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Horton, 1637-1679 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Lease of the prebend of Horton, 1551 (D21, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Markby, Stewart and Wadeson of London, solicitors, including deeds of Horton,
c.1848 (D1987, Gloucestershire Archives)
Horton, 1761-1936 (D10607, Gloucestershire Archives)
Iron Acton
Deeds of property in Iron Acton (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Iron Acton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Iron Acton, 1747-1893 (29226, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bridges, Sawtell and Adams of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Iron
Acton (D4647, Gloucestershire Archives)
Iron Acton and Latteridge, 13th century-18th century (see person and place indexes in
searchroom, Bristol Record Office, and at Bristol Central Library)
Iron Acton (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Iron Acton, from
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Iron Acton and
Latteridge (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
deeds of property in Iron Acton (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Morton Grange Estate, Thornbury, including deeds of property in Iron Acton,
1385-1883; legal papers regarding manor of Iron Acton, 1666-1720 (D4018, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Kingswood
Deed of property in Kingswood, 1937 (D8944, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Deeds of property in Kingswood (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Kingswood, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Kingswood, 1701-1768 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Kingswood, 1794-1812 (40060, Bristol Record Office)
in Kingswood, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office,
Kingswood, 19th century (38797, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Munro family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Kingswood, 1762-19th
century (4387, 8024, Bristol Record Office)
Little Sodbury
Copy deeds of property in Little Sodbury, (1605-1665) (D2066, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deed of property in Little Sodbury, 1735 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Little Sodbury (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Little Sodbury (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Meade King and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Little
Sodbury (35877, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Burcombe family of Chipping Sodbury, including deeds of property in Little
Little Sodbury (D871, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Webber, Bull and Naish of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of land in Little
Littleton-upon-Severn
Deeds of property in Littleton-upon-Severn (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Littleton-upon-Severn (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Littleton-upon-Severn, 15th century-20th century (see person and place
Littleton-upon-Severn (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Littleton-upon-Severn (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Littleton-upon-Severn from the Crossman family of Olveston (D1606,
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Littleton-upon-Severn
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Littleton-upon-Severn
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property in Littleton-upon-Severn, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Mangotsfield
Deed of property in Mangotsfield, 1577/8 (D247, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deed of property in Mangotsfield, 1653 (D1349, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deed of property in Mangotsfield, 1766 (D2277, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers concerning Mangotsfield and Moorend, 1564-1788 (5138, Bristol
Record Office)
Deeds and related papers of property in Mangotsfield, 1785-1807 (D185, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Mangotsfield (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Mangotsfield (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Mangotsfield, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Mangotsfield (40036, Bristol Record Office)
Records of David Langley and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Staple Hill
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Mangotsfield
Records of Lawrence Tuckett of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Staple Hill
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including deeds of property in Mangotsfield,
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Mangotsfield (D4365,
Records of the Haynes family of Downend and Westbury-on-Trym, including deeds of the Hill
House Estate (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Mangotsfield, 19th century (38797, Bristol Record Office)
Marshfield
Deeds of property in Marshfield (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Marshfield (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Marshfield, 18th century-20th century (D7165, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Marshfield, 19th and early 20th centuries (D8309, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Marshfield, 1732-1829 (D10744, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Marshfield (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Marshfield (28048, Bristol
Record Office)
deeds of property in Marshfield (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Howard family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Marshfield (D108,
Records of the Player family of South Gloucestershire, including deeds of property in Marshfield
Old Sodbury
Copy deeds of property in Old Sodbury, (1605-1665) (D2066, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deed of messuages and lands in Old Sodbury, left in the will of James Hatherell, deceased,
Deed of property in Old Sodbury, 1735 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Old Sodbury, 1688 (D185, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Old Sodbury (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Old Sodbury (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Old Sodbury, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Old Sodbury, 16th century-19th century (D1837, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Burcombe family of Chipping Sodbury, including deeds of property in Old
Old Sodbury (D871, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Webber, Bull and Naish of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of Kingsgrove Manor
and land in Old Sodbury, 1564-1777, (D1699, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldbury-on-Severn
Deeds of property in Oldbury-on-Severn (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Oldbury-on-Severn (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Oldbury-on-Severn, 1698-1940 (D9979, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Oldbury-on-Severn, 15th century-20th century (see person and place
Deeds of property in Thornbury and Oldbury-on-Severn, (1703)-1926 (D8738, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Oldbury-on-Severn (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Oldbury-on-Severn
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Records of Thurstons and Setchell of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including:
Deeds of Oldbury 1729-1879 from the Day family (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Oldbury-on-Severn, (1678)-1914 (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Barrow family of Oldbury-on-Severn and Rockhampton including deeds,
Oldland
Abstract of title of cottage, (1814)-1860 (D6810, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deed of property in Oldland, 1647 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of 4 and 10 Rutland Avenue, Willsbridge, 1889-1951 (D1895, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Oldland (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Oldland (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Oldland, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Draft deeds of property in Oldland, 1814 (D83, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Oldland, from the
Records of Lawrence Tuckett of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Longwell
Green (39362, Bristol Record Office)
in Oldland and Willsbridge, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including deeds of property in Oldland, 1773-1798
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Oldland (D4018,
Records of the Howard family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Oldland (D108,
property in Oldland, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Munro family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Oldland, 1762-19th
century (4387, 8024, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Pearsall family of Bitton, including deeds of Willsbridge House and land in Bitton,
Records of Thomas Coombs and Son, solicitors, including deeds of cottage and garden at
Willsbridge, 1863-1917 (D3005, Gloucestershire Archives)
Olveston
Deeds of property in Olveston (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Olveston (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Olveston (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Deeds of property in Olveston, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Olveston (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Olveston, 1838-1859, from the Ward family of Tockington (D1606,
Deeds of Friezewood Estate, Olveston from the Crossman family of Olveston (D1606,
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Olveston, from
including:
Deeds and related papers relating to property in Olveston, 17th -20th centuries (32395,
Deeds of property in Olveston (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Kirby Simcox of Thornbury and Kingswood, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Ridgeway in Olveston, 1851-1899 (D9479, Gloucestershire Archives)
related papers of the Tockington Park Estate, from the Miles family of Bristol, 1624-1858
Records of the Chester family including deeds and related papers of property in Olveston,
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Olveston (D4018,
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Olveston (D4365,
Records of the Morton Grange Estate, Thornbury, including deeds of property in Olveston,
Records of Winterbotham, Gurney and Co of Cheltenham, solicitors, including deeds of
Olveston, 1577-1890, from the Salmon and Peach families (D2202, Gloucestershire Archives)
Patchway
Deed of the Little Stoke Estate, Stoke Lane, Patchway, 1938 (D8944, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Wellingtons of Gloucester, solicitors, including deeds of property in Patchway
Deeds of property in Northwick (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Redwick and Northwick, 15th century-20th century (see person and place
Redwick and Northwick (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Redwick and Northwick, 1680 (D4769, Gloucestershire Archives)
related papers of property in Redwick and Northwick, from the Miles family of Bristol, 1624-1858
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Redwick and
Northwick (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
property in Redwick and Northwick, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Willoughby family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Redwick and
Northwick, 1643-1723 (09465, Bristol Record Office)
Pucklechurch
Deed of property in Pucklechurch 1677 (D247, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Pucklechurch (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Pucklechurch (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Pucklechurch, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Pucklechurch, 1739-1810 (D2277, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Pucklechurch,
Pucklechurch (41214, Bristol Record Office)
related papers of property in Pucklechurch, from the Miles family of Bristol, 1624-1858 (12151,
Pucklechurch, 1751 (22936, Bristol Record Office)
deeds of property in Pucklechurch (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Whitmore family of Lower Slaughter, including deeds of property in
Pucklechurch, 1552-1868 (D45, Gloucestershire Archives)
Rangeworthy
Deeds of property in Rangeworthy (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Rangeworthy
Redland
Deeds and related papers concerning Cote House and various closes including Withy Mead in
Redland and Westbury-on-Trym, 1653-1866 (6682, Bristol Record Office)
Lease of property in Redland, 1631 (7836, Bristol Record Office)
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Records of Loman, Chapman and Harrison of London, solicitors, including deeds of Redland
Court and property in Redland from the Martin and Innys families and James E Baillie,
1653-1866 (6682, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds and related papers of 27 Carnarvon Road, Redland, 1894-1978 (44553, Bristol Record
Office)
Rockhampton
Deed of property in Rockhampton, 1668 (D1349, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deed of property in Rockhampton, 1753 (D8910, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Rockhampton (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Rockhampton (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Rockhampton (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Rockhampton (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
property in Newton, from the Player family of Bristol, 1719-1881 (12161, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Rockhampton
property in Rockhampton, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
of property in Rockhampton (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Thurstons and Setchell of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including papers
of the Barrow family of Oldbury-on-Severn and Rockhampton including deeds, 1731-1897
St George, Bristol
Deed of land in Rodney fields, 1864 (D9775, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deed of property at Pile Marsh, 1786 (D8910, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deed of property at Dundridge, 1829 (D6810, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in St George, 13th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Records of David Langley and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in St George
(41373, 41415 and 41649, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in St George and
Moorfields (35447, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Lloyd Bragg of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds concerning Two Mile Hill (40102,
St George, 1759-1840 (D1987, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Mowbray Woodwards of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in St George
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Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in St George (D4018,
Records of the Munro family of Bristol, including deeds of property in St George and Whitehall,
1762-19th century (4387, 8024, Bristol Record Office)
related papers of property in St George, 19th century (39519, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of 13 Verrier Road, St George, 1900-2001 (44134, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of Crofts End, St George, 1829-1927 (44480, Bristol Record Office)
St Philip and St Jacob, Bristol
Records of Bobbets, Harvey and Gore of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in St
Philip and St Jacob (40036, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in St Philip and St
Jacob, from the Langton family of Bristol (D189, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Gregory Rowcliffe of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in St Philip and
St Jacob (39462, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Sylvester Mackell of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in St Philip and St
Jacob (41950, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Upper Easton, St
Philip and St Jacob, Bristol (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in St Philip and St
Jacob (D4365, Gloucestershire Archives)
Shirehampton
Deed of property in Shirehampton, 1710 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Shirehampton, 13th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Shirehampton (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Shirehampton
Shirehampton (41214, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Joseph Langley, including deeds of property in Shirehampton (11054, Bristol Record
Office)
related papers of property in Shirehampton, from the Miles family of Bristol, 1624-1858 (12151,
Shirehampton, 1904 (22936, Bristol Record Office)
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Siston
Deed of property in Siston, 1719 (D8910, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Siston, 1653-1813 (D185, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Siston, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Siston, 1739-1810 (D2277, Gloucestershire Archives)
property in Siston, from the Player family of Bristol, 1719-1881 (12161, Bristol Record Office)
in Siston, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office, and
deeds of property in Siston (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Mereweather family of Bristol and Wales, 1631-1858, including deeds of
property in Siston (13458, Bristol Record Office)
Stapleton
Deed of property in Stapleton, 1783 (D2139, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Stapleton (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Eastville and Stapleton, 1877-1879 (D8944, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Stapleton, 13th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Stapleton (35447,
property in Stapleton, 1718-1869 (6378, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Meade King and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of Stapleton Chapel,
Records of Pictons of Luton, solicitors, including deeds of property in Stapleton (43521, Bristol
Record Office)
in Stapleton, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office,
Records of Stapleton Local Board of Health, including deeds and related papers of property in
Stapleton, 1890s (22936, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Elbridge family, including deeds of Heath House, 1783-1818 (AC, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Stapleton (28048, Bristol
Record Office)
deeds of property in Stapleton (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Withers of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Stapleton (40950,
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Stoke Bishop
Deeds of property in Westbury-on-Trym, including Stoke Lodge, Stoke Bishop (11563, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of G Akaster of Plymouth, solicitors, including abstract of title of property in Stoke
Bishop, 1935 (43111, Bristol Record Office)
Records of J W Ward of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds and related papers of Redhouse
Farm, 1706-1874, and Stoke Lodge, 1797-1834, in Stoke Bishop (41214, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Joseph Langley, including deeds of property in Stoke Bishop and Westbury-on-Trym
Stoke Bishop, 19th century (38797, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds and related papers of 33-35 Grove Road, Coombe Dingle, Stoke Bishop, 1894-c.1985
Stoke Gifford
Deeds of property in Stoke Gifford (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of George W Braikenridge of Brislington, antiquarian, including deeds and related
papers of property in Stoke Gifford, 13th-19th centuries (GWB, Bristol Record Office)
related papers of property in Harry Stoke, 1580-1832 (12148, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Player family of South Gloucestershire, including deeds of property in Stoke
Gifford (D5090, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury
Deeds of property in Thornbury (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Thornbury, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Thornbury, 1602-1688 (D1349, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Thornbury, 1739-1810 (D2277, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Thornbury and Oldbury-on-Severn, (1703)-1926 (D8738, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of The Chantry, Thornbury, 1623-1856 (D11296, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury (D4647, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury, 13th century-18th century (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Deeds of property in Kington and Thornbury (D1606 , Gloucestershire Archives)
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Deeds of property in Thornbury, (1831-1890), from the Knapp family of Thornbury (D1606,
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Thornbury, from
property in Thornbury, from the Player family of Bristol, 1719-1881 (12161, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Thornbury (D4018,
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Thornbury (28048, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Thornbury (D4365,
deeds of property in Thornbury (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Howard family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Thornbury, Kington
and Morton (D108, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Morton Grange Estate, Thornbury, including deeds of property in Thornbury,
Records of the Player family of South Gloucestershire, including deeds of property in Thornbury
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Thornbury (D866,
Records of the Tucker family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Thornbury, 1586-1721
Records of the Willoughby family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Thornbury,
of property in Thornbury (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Wells, Hodsman, Crossman and Co of Thornbury, solicitors, including deeds of
property in Thornbury (D1628, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tormarton
Deeds of property in Tormarton (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Alsop family of West Littleton and Wickwar, including deeds of property in
Tormarton and West Littleton, 1652-1742 (D5400, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tortworth
Deeds of property in Tortworth (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Player family of South Gloucestershire, including deeds of property in Tortworth
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Tortworth (D866,
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Tytherington
Deed of land in Itchington, 1643 (D8731, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Tytherington, 1686-1807 (D185, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Tytherington (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Tytherington (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Tytherington, 1835-1861 (D10271, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Tytherington, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Itchington and Tytherington (D4647, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Tytherington, (1687)-1904, from the Hardwicke family of Tytherington
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Tytherington (D4018,
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Tytherington (28048,
property in Tytherington, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Itchington (D866,
Deeds of property in Wapley and Codrington (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Wapley and
Codrington (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
property in Wapley and Codrington, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wapley and Codrington, 1761-1936 (D10607, Gloucestershire Archives)
Westbury-on-Trym
Deed of property in Westbury-on-Trym, 1782 (D8910, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers concerning Cote House and various closes including Withy Mead in
Redland and Westbury-on-Trym, 1653-1866 (6682, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Westbury-on-Trym (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Westbury-on-Trym, 13th century-20th century (see person and place
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Deeds of property in Westbury-on-Trym, 1710-1735 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Westbury-on-Trym (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Westbury-on-Trym (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of George W Braikenridge of Brislington, antiquarian, including deeds and related
papers of property in Westbury-on-Trym, 13th-19th centuries (GWB, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Harley and Duval of Bristol, solicitors, including:
Deeds of property in Westbury-on-Trym from the Weston family, 1847-1877 (49646, Bristol
Record Office)
Deeds of property in Westbury-on-Trym, 1788-1895 (49646, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Joseph Langley, including deeds of property in Westbury-on-Trym (11054, Bristol
Record Office)
Deeds and related papers of property in Westbury-on-Trym, from the Miles family of Bristol,
Deeds of property in Westbury-on-Trym, from the Player family of Bristol, 1719-1881 (12161,
Records of Penleys of Dursley, solicitors, including deeds of property in Westbury-on-Trym
(40349, 40350, 40351, Bristol Record Office)
Records of R Steer and Co of Teddington, solicitors, including deeds of property in Westburyon-Trym (40523, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Rathmell of Ilkley (Yorkshire), solicitors, including deeds of property in Westbury-onTrym (40547, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Cann Lippincott family of Over Court, Almondsbury, including deeds of property
in Westbury-on-Trym, 1652-19th century (D10904, Gloucestershire Archives)
Penpole, 1904 (22936, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Coombe Dingle and
Westbury-on-Trym (28048, Bristol Record Office)
in Westbury-on-Trym (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Westbury-on-Trym, 19th century (38797, Bristol Record Office)
of Cote Bank estate, Westbury-on-Trym 1826-1844 (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Westerleigh
Deed of property in Westerleigh, 1562 (D2277, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deed of property in Westerleigh, 1680 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Westerleigh (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Westerleigh (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
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including deeds and related papers relating to property in Westerleigh, 17th -20th centuries
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including deeds of coal mine in Westerleigh, 1630
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Westerleigh (D4018,
deeds of property in Westerleigh (HA, Bristol Record Office)
property in Westerleigh, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Whitmore family of Lower Slaughter, including deeds of property in Westerleigh,
Wick and Abson
Deeds of property in Abson (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Wick and Abson (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Wick and Abson, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes
in searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Wick and Abson,
Wick and Abson, 1751 (22936, Bristol Record Office)
deeds of property in Wick and Abson and Bridgeyate (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Wickwar
Deeds of Kite's Nest Cottages, Wickwar, [19th century-20th century] (D5084, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Wickwar (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Wickwar (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Wickwar, 1671-1884 (D2462, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wickwar (D4647, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bagstone (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Wickwar, from the Hopkins family of Wotton-under-Edge (D654,
Deeds of Wickwar, 1519-1897, from the Pope family of Cromhall, Falfield, Kingscote and
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Wickwar (D654, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Alsop family of West Littleton and Wickwar, including deeds of property in
Wickwar, 1652-1742 (D5400, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Borough of Chipping Sodbury including deeds concerning Wickwar 1389-1621
Winterbourne
Deed of land in the manor of Sturden, 1807 (D9775, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deed of propery in Winterbourne and area, 1732 (D2277, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Winterbourne, 1680-1682 (D185, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Winterbourne (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Winterbourne, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Records of Barnard and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Winterbourne,
Deeds of property in Winterbourne, (1687)-1904, from the Hardwicke family of Tytherington
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Winterbourne
including deeds and related papers relating to property in Sturdon and Winterbourne, 17th -20th
centuries (32395, Bristol Record Office)
the Northwoods Estate, (1590)-1832 (D4890, Gloucestershire Archives)
property in Winterbourne, from the Player family of Bristol, 1719-1881 (12161, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including deed of property in Winterbourne, 1597
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Winterbourne
deeds of property in Winterbourne (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Yate
Deed of property in Yate, 1685 (D1837, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Yate (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Yate, 1729-1846 (D2462, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Deeds of property in Yate, 18th century-20th century (D7165, Gloucestershire Archives)
Yate (D4647, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Crossman and Thurston of Thornbury, solicitors, including deeds of property in Yate
Deeds of property in Yate (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Yate, 1704-1843, from the Alway family of Iron Acton (D1606,
Deeds of property in Yate, 1546-1985 (D654, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Yate from the Wotton-under-Edge Freehold Land and Investment
Society (D654, Gloucestershire Archives)
leases and exchange of parts of the glebe, 1741-1926 (GDR/D5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Yate, 1761-1936 (D10607, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Diocesan records
Prior to the Reformation, most of Gloucestershire formed part of the diocese of Worcester. The
diocese of Gloucester was formed in 1541 and that of Bristol in the following year. These two
dioceses were united between 1562 and 1589, and 1836 and 1897. On their re-establishment
as separate sees in 1897, the deanery of Bitton (formerly Hawkesbury South) was transferred to
the diocese of Bristol. For details of the composition of the diocese of Gloucester and its
archdeaconries and deaneries see I M Kirby, A Catalogue of the Records of the Bishop and
Archdeacons (Gloucester City Council, 1968) (available at Gloucestershire Archives). A useful
study of the administration of the diocese between 1547 and 1579 is contained in F D Price's
thesis (1939), available in the searchroom at Gloucestershire Archives. In the course of
compiling his thesis Price calendared several of the consistory court act books in the period
1541-1602. Copies are available in the searchroom at Gloucestershire Archives.
For a more detailed overview and explanation of the dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol, see the
introduction to this guide.
The diocesan act books were calendared by F S Hockaday c1910-1920 and his "abstracts" to
them, arranged by parish and date, are held at Gloucestershire Archives (D3439). His personal
and place-name "indexes", are available in the searchroom at Gloucestershire Archives and
provide a point of entry into matters relating to faculties, ordinations, licences, presentments,
etc, which were dealt with by the consistory court.
The diocese was responsible for the administration of parishes and the proving of wills; for more
information see the ‘Parish Records’ and ‘Wills’ sections of this guide.
In this section, references to the main classes of records within the archives of the Diocese of
Gloucester are given first, followed by specific references to parishes, arranged alphabetically
by place. Detailed references for each parish are given in the ‘Places’ section of this guide.
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry
Quinquennial inspection reports on church buildings (GDR/A17/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Court papers for parishes within the diocese,16th to 20th centuries (GDR/B4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Churchwardens’ presentments (GDR/C4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Presentations to parishes (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Nominations to parishes (GDR/D2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Grants of next presentation to parishes (GDR/D3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Patrons’ petitions for parishes (GDR/D4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records relating to advowsons (GDR/D5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbents in benefices (GDR/D13, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Letters and papers relating to resignations of incumbents, mainly after commissions of enquiry
under the Incumbents' Resignation Acts (1871 and 1887) (GDR/D14, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sequestration papers (GDR/D16, Gloucestershire Archives)
Licences, consents and papers concerning the licensing of new churches and chapels for divine
worship and for the solemnization of marriages, and the licensing of secular buildings for
temporary use for services usually during repairs to a church or chapel (GDR/D18,
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Chronological lists of incumbents (GDR/D19, Gloucestershire Archives)
Faculties for all the parishes within the diocese, 17th to 21st centuries (GDR/F1,
Consecration papers for parishes within the diocese, 19th- 20th centuries (GDR/F2,
Papers concerning parsonage houses (GDR/F4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Convocation papers, 1640-1936 (GDR/L, Gloucestershire Archives)
Lists under "Rose's Act" of surviving parish registers and their place of deposit, 1813 (GDR/V4,
Parish glebe terriers and inventories (GDR/V5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish papers concerning various diocesan matters (GDR/V6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Orders in Council relating to parishes (GDR/V7, Gloucestershire Archives)
Instruments fixing tables of fees (GDR/V12, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers relating to the appointment and licensing of parish clerks (GDR/V13, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records relating to the Dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol, including records relating to
parishes, extracted and indexed by F S Hockaday (D3439, Gloucestershire Archives)
Minutes of committee and general meetings of the Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Church
Building Association, 1837-1846 (GDR/F3/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Minutes of the Avon Joint Diocesan Education committee, 1982-1983 (GDR/A17/10/6,
Register of ordinations 1923-44 (indexed),with list of ordinations held outside the cathedrals
of Gloucester and Bristol between 1830 and 1912, compiled 1913 (GDR/E4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Schedule of bells for preservation in the Diocese of Gloucester, 1983 (GDR/A17/9/1,
School instruments of management and details of composition of governing bodies relating to
schools in Avon, 1949-1982 (GDR/A17/10/41, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Diocese of Bristol (EP, Bristol Record Office)
Almondsbury
Records of Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance relating to Almondsbury Conference House
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Alveston
Aust
Avonmouth
Bitton
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including marriage licence papers of Joseph
Been and Ann Bright of Bitton, 28 September 1736 (GDR/Q13/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol
Appointment of surrogates to act in Bristol, 1569; reports of the Gloucester and Bristol
Diocesan Association, 1858-1861, 1862-1865 and 1866-1869 (GDR/A14/9, GDR/A16/5,
Deanery receipt books for episcopal visitation, Bristol City, 1860 (GDR/C2/12,
Documents concerning the Diocese of Bristol, 1846-1897 (GDR/A6, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Letters and papers relating to the Bristol Diocesan Board of Education, 1852-1853 (GDR/V4,
Licences, consents and papers concerning the licensing of new churches and chapels for
divine worship and for the solemnization of marriages, and the licensing of secular buildings
for temporary use for services usually during repairs to a church or chapel: Bristol, St James,
schoolroom, 1864 (GDR/D18, Gloucestershire Archives)
List of [visitation] fees, Bristol archdeaconry, c.1850 (GDR/C2/11, Gloucestershire Archives)
List of institutions and Licensings, Bristol jurisdiction, 1865-1866 (GDR/D7/6, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Mandate from Archdeacon of Bristol to all in general to cite clergy and churchwardens to
appear at his visitation, 1861 (GDR/C3/70, Gloucestershire Archives)
Orders in Council, 1844-1909, relating to parishes in Bristol (GDR/V7, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Ordinands' papers including certificate of age of James Cumberland: copy of baptismal entry
in register of St. James, Bristol dated 25th. August 1704 (GDR/E3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefices in Bristol (GDR/D13,
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Papers concerning parsonage houses at Bristol St Clement, 1898, St George, 1858, St Jude
the Apostle, 1896, St Simon, 1897, St Thomas the Apostle, Eastville 1891 (GDR/F4,
Papers relating to Bristol Stipends Authority, 1981 (GDR/A17/2/63, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers relating to the appointment of Charles E Ponting as diocesan surveyor for the Bristol
archdeaconry, 1886-1896 (GDR/A10/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning the parishes of St Bartholomew, 1861; St Mary the Virgin, Tyndall's Park,
1873; St Matthew, Kingsdown; St Matthew, Moorfields, 1873; St Silas, 1867; Martin Richard
Whish, incumbent of Bristol St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol St Thomas, Abbots Leigh and
Bedminster, would not accept the Bishop's jurisdiction, 1836-41; (GDR/V6, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Presentations to parishes in Bristol (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Relaxations of the inhibitions during visitation, 1857 and 1860 (GDR/C3/67, GDR/C3/69,
Restraining parishes from exercising jurisdiction during the visitation, 1831 (GDR/C3/47,
Surveys of the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, (GDR/384, 385, GDR/A2/2, 3, 6,
GDR/A6/1-5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Charfield
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including declaration of trust of investment for
Charfield Church Sunday School, 1913 (GDR/A17/1/10, Gloucestershire Archives)
Clifton
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including letters between H. Allen of Clifton,
George Gough, T. B. Lancaster, Charles Capener and others relating to financial difficulties
between Gough and Capener c.1863 (GDR/O1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Coalpit Heath
Cold Ashton
Compton Greenfield
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Dodington
Bishop Fowler's certificate of having accepted the resignation of the incumbent of Dodington,
1693 (GDR/D14, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers relating to the proposed union of Old Sodbury, Dodington and Little Sodbury, and
Wapley and Codrington, 1928-1930 (GDR/D17, Gloucestershire Archives)
Downend
Doynton
Records of Bristol Diocesan Registry (33792, Bristol Record Office)
Subscriptions, Rector of Doynton, 1640 (GDR/D9, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dyrham and Hinton
Printed order of service relating to Dyrham, 1845 (GDR/F6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Subscriptions, schoolmaster of Dyrham, 1736 (GDR/D9, Gloucestershire Archives)
Filton
Order in Council to transfer part of the episcopal estates in the manor of Horfield, parsonages
of Horfield and Filton, and appurtenances, except the advowson, as leased to George
Lempriere, 4 Feb. 1817) to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1847 (GDR/G4/1,
Fishponds
Frampton Cotterell
Frenchay
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Great Badminton
Instrument of consolidation of the vicarage of Great Badminton with Little Badminton chapel,
Hanham Abbotts
Hawkesbury
Certificate of failure of John Pece to prove fitness for institution to Hawkesbury, 1645
(GDR/D7/5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Detection causes, Hawkesbury deanery, 1619-1639, 1684-1688 (GDR/138, GDR/255,
Nominations and appointments of apparitors and underapparitors for various deaneries
including Hawkesbury, 1787 (GDR/B9/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Henbury
Horfield
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including Order in Council to transfer part of the
episcopal estates in the manor of Horfield, parsonages of Horfield and Filton, and
appurtenances, except the advowson, as leased to George Lempriere, 4 Feb. 1817) to the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1847 (GDR/G4/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Iron Acton
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including Roe's Marriage indexes covering Iron
Acton 1660-1837 (GDR/Q14, Gloucestershire Archives)
Kingswood
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Little Sodbury
Marriage licence papers of William Arundel of Little Sodbury and Martha Woodward of Old
Sodbury, 11 November 1733 (GDR/Q13/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Mangotsfield
Marshfield
Old Sodbury
Marriage licence papers of William Arundel of Little Sodbury and Martha Woodward of Old
Sodbury, 11 November 1733 (GDR/Q13/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldbury-on-Severn
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including consecration papers relating to
rebuilding of church at Oldbury-on-Severn, 1899 (GDR/F2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldland
Olveston
Patchway
Pucklechurch
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Rangeworthy
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including return to the Bishop's commission of
enquiry into the value of small livings, for Rangeworthy, 1725 (GDR/V5, Gloucestershire
Archives)
St George, Bristol
Shirehampton
Siston
Soundwell
Stapleton
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including letters and papers relating to the
purchase of the Stapleton estate, 1837-c.1859 (GDR/A13, Gloucestershire Archives)
Stoke Bishop
Thornbury
Ministers' Articles of Enquiry for Thornbury, 1755 (GDR/C5/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Presentations of Master of Thornbury Free School, 1713, 1744 (GDR/S1, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Tormarton
Subscriptions, Vicar of Wapley, 1645 (GDR/D9, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Warmley
Westbury-on-Trym
Westerleigh
Wick and Abson
Winterbourne
Winterbourne Down
Yate
Letters of institution and collation, and licences to perpetual curacies and related papers,
Yate, 1552 (GDR/D7/25, Gloucestershire Archives)
Senior Church Schools Appeal Fund (or Headlam Fund), including Yate, 1938-1959
(GDR/A17/10/31-34, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Electoral records
Electoral registers begin in 1832. The South Gloucestershire parishes were covered by the
Western Division of Gloucestershire between 1832 and 1885, and then by the Thornbury
Division until 1948 when some were transferred to the South Gloucestershire Division and some
to the Thornbury and Stroud Division. In 1954 the Thornbury and Stroud Division separated
and the southern parishes moved to the South Gloucestershire Division. The parishes in the
South Gloucestershire Division were transferred to the new Avon Division in 1974.
Researchers should check the individual parish entries in the ‘Places’ section of this guide for
notes on the Divisions each parish was in.
Gloucestershire Archives holds registers for the Western, Thornbury and Thornbury and Stroud
Divisions, up to 1954 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol Record Office holds Bristol poll books, 1715-1847; Bristol electoral registers, 1843-1900
(available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Gloucestershire County Council electors, including electoral registers, 1889-1919,
complete except for St George West, 1894, Westbury-on-Trym, 1905 and 1906, Charfield,
1897, Oldland 1898, Hawkesbury, 1909. From 1905 Horfield, Shirehampton and Westbury-onTrym come under Bristol (C/CC/R/6, R/7, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Estate and family records
These collections are extremely varied in content and in the survival rate of the documentation
originally created by the estate and family. They include personal, family and testamentary
papers, records relating to the running of large and small estates, maps and plans, and title
deeds, although where possible references to deeds have been extracted and placed under the
‘Deeds’ section of this guide.
Apprenticeship indentures, 1709-1875 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Acton Turville
Records of the Beaufort family of Badminton (D2700, Gloucestershire Archives)
Almondsbury
Ashton Court Papers, including:
Records of Jarrit Smith of Bristol, politician, 1692-1783 (AC/JS, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Woolnough family of Bristol, mainly 18th century (AC/WO, Bristol Record
Office)
History of the Chester-Master family of Almondsbury and Cirencester, 2007 (D11516,
Holiday journal of Miss M C Lloyd of Over Court, Almondsbury, 1873 (D9487, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Arnold, Cooper and Tompkins of Chichester, solicitors, including records of the
Cann Lippincott trust (37974, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bobbets, Harvey and Gore of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds relating to the Cann
Lippincott trust (40036, Bristol Record Office)
Papers of the Cann-Lippincott family of Almondsbury (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Peach family of Tockington, 1698-1890 (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Ward family of Tockington (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning an estate at Cribbs Causeway (35447, Bristol Record Office)
Papers concerning Catsbrain, Charlton Lane (35447, Bristol Record Office)
including survey of Lea tithing, Gaunts Earthcott, 1783 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Mullings Ellett and Co of Cirencester, solicitors, including records of the ChesterMaster family of Cirencester and Almondsbury, 1742-1930 (D1388, Gloucestershire Archives)
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The Clifton Wood Collection, relating to Tockington, 1638-1884 (12160, Bristol Record
Office)
Papers of the Miles and Southwell families 1528-1852 (12154, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Cann Lippincott family of Over Court, Almondsbury (D3806, D4465, D4483,
D10904, Gloucestershire Archives), including:
Pay sheets for Over and Elberton estates giving names of workmen, 1916 (D10904,
Records of the Cann-Lippincott family of Almondsbury (D3806, D4465, D4483, Gloucestershire
Records of the Chester and Chester-Master families of Almondsbury (D674, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Chester family including estate papers relating to Hortham Farm and Court
Farm, 1808-1820 (99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 8928, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Creswick family of Hanham Court and related families, 1578-1821 (206, 9728,
11376, 14294, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Cullimore family of Manor Farm, Morton, Thornbury, 17th-20th centuries (D9400,
Records of the Danvers family of Thornbury relating to Gaunts Earthcott and Tockington
Records of the Prideaux family of Bristol relating to Over, 1602-1928 (20535, Bristol Record
Office)
Alveston
Ashton Court Papers, including records of Jarrit Smith of Bristol, politician, 1692-1783 (AC/JS,
including papers concerning the estates of G A Fullerton, undated (32395, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of the Cann-Lippincott family of Almondsbury (D3806, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Danvers family of Thornbury (D1928, Gloucestershire Archives)
Aust
Office)
Records of the Buchan family of Rhymney (Monmouthshire), and the Cornock family of
Records of the Cann-Lippincott family of Almondsbury (D3806, D4465, Gloucestershire
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Archives)
Records of the Sampson-Way family relating to Aust Passage, 1846 (36553, Bristol Record
Office)
Barton Regis
Ashton Court Papers, including records of the Woolnough family of Bristol, mainly 18th century
(AC/WO, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Berkeley family of Stoke Gifford (D2700, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Bitton
Office)
Records of Clarke, Gwynn and Press of Bristol, solicitors, including papers of the CottesloeFreemantle family, 17th and 18th centuries (29542, 21782, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including records of the Bush
family (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Osborne Ward Vassall Abbot and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including records of the
Ford family of Bristol, 1701-1901 (12163, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Davy family of Tracy Park, Doynton (D6623, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Newton family of Barrs Court, Bitton (D370, D1844, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Newton family of Barrs Court, Bitton, 1727-1759 (11376, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Pearsall family of Bitton, including papers concerning composer Robert Lucas
de Pearsall (1796-1856), 19th-20th centuries (D7217, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Stanley, Wasbrough and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including will of James Quarman of
Bitton, innkeeper, 1813-1848 (D1859, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol
Administration of James Frye of Bristol, gentleman, 1806 (D2885, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Records of Crossman and Thurston of Thornbury, solicitors, including papers of the Pearson
family of Bristol concerning the Clifton and Hotwells Flower Show, 1828-1861 (D3789,
Records of Major Jack Bromhead, (1893-1977) DCM MBE, including photographs and other
records relating to the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, Bristol based clubs, the Regent picture
house, Bristol, lease of wholesale ironmongers premises at 18 Old Market Street, Bristol, 1878
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including:
Papers relating to Bristol Harbour, 1767-1807 (D421, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers relating to the Knight family, 1742-1655 (D421, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Beaufort family of Badminton (D2700, Gloucestershire Archives), including:
Records relating to St Peter (D2700, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Cann-Lippincott family of Almondsbury (D3806, D4483 Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Chester and Chester-Master families of Almondsbury, relating to St Augustine's
Records of the Cumberland family of Bristol, 1778-1902 (D225, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Danvers family of Thornbury relating to Redcliffe and Bristol (D1928,
Records of the King family of Westbury-on-Trym, including apprenticeship indenture relating to
Milk Street, Bristol (D6213, Gloucestershire Archives)
Will of Peter Hickes of Kingsdown, Bristol, 1815 (D5400, Gloucestershire Archives)
Charfield
Papers relating to Charfield, including testamentary papers, 1673-1870; reference book to OS
map of Charfield, 1880 (D2462, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Penley, Milward and Bayley of Dursley, solicitors, including papers concerning the
Hale family of Alderley, (1559)-1890 (D2078, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Ducie family of Tortworth (D340, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Goulter family of Charfield and Gloucester (reputed Huguenots and associates
of William Tyndale of North Nibley, translator of the Bible into English), including apprenticeship
indenture of Walter Frederick Goulter, engineer, 1888 (D8492, Gloucestershire Archives)
Chipping Sodbury
Exemplification of judgement in dispute over public weigh scales, 1681 (D6521, Gloucestershire
Archives)
77
Subjects
Records of the Brooke family of Horton (D6267, D6662, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Burcombe family of Chipping Sodbury, including wills, 1670-1764 (D6267,
Records of the Codrington family of Dodington (D1610, D2482, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thomas Porter of Chipping Sodbury: apprenticeship indenture, 1854 (D1846, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Clifton
Marriage settlement and related papers concerning H L Hardwicke and Beatrice Richmond
Smith of Sundon House, Clifton Down, Bristol, 1885-1935 (D4647, Gloucestershire Archives)
Marriage settlement concerning the Passmore family of Grenada and the Hall family of Clifton,
Marriage settlement of John Hunt of the Hotwells, Clifton, Bristol, and Mary Norton of Bath,
Papers concerning T Whittingham-Brown, master at Clifton College Prep School and
Commander RMVR at HMS Flying Fox in Bristol, c.1945-1951 (D8841, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Probate copy of will of Captain Matthew Liddon, RN, of Clifton, 1869 (D3800, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Probate of will of Thomas Davis, dockmaster, 1823 (D9775, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Andrews and Heyworth of Pewsey (Wiltshire), solicitors, including trust deed relating
to will of Rev Field Flowers Wayet of Clifton, [late 19th century-early 20th century] (D8954,
Records of Clarke, Gwynn and Press of Bristol, solicitors, including papers of the Shore and
Hurle families, 18th and 19th centuries (29542, 21782, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury, solicitors, including family and testamentary papers of the
Crossman family of Olveston, 1788-1925 (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of J W Ward of Bristol, solicitors, including papers concerning Clifton Wood, 1638-1730
records relating to clubs including Clifton Rifle club and Clifton Rugby Club (D4920,
Records of the Ford family of Bristol, 1701-1901 (12163, Bristol Record Office)
The Clifton Wood Collection, 1638-1884 (12160, Bristol Record Office)
Papers of the Cornish family relating to the Shortgrove Estate, Durdham Down, 1777-1871
78
Subjects
Papers of the Smith, Smith-Baskerville and other families, relating to Clifton Wood,
Papers of the Worrall family relating to Pembroke Road and Durdham Down, 1737-1887
Records of Stanley, Wasbrough of Bristol, solicitors, including papers of the Worrall family,
1788-1898 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Blathwayt family of Dyrham (D2659, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Records of the Newton family of Barrs Court, Bitton, including records relating to Hotwells
Records of the Pedler and Wheler familes of Clifton and Jamaica, 1764-1884 (21500, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the Powell family of Clifton, 1836-1888 (16315, Bristol Record Office)
Coalpit Heath
Cold Ashton
Compton Greenfield
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including records of the
Carter family relating to Compton Greenfield (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Edward Sampson concerning his estates in Compton Greenfield (28048, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of Gamlen, Bowerman and Forward of London, solicitors of London, including papers
of the Harris, Hobbs, Merrett and Tynte families relating to Compton Greenfield, 1555-1700
Cromhall
Papers of the Dimery and Pick families of Cam and North Nibley (D654, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Papers of the Pope family of Cromhall, Falfield, Kingscote and Wickwar, 1662-1892 (D654,
Records of Moore Brown and Dixon of Tewkesbury, solicitors, including estate papers realting
to Cromhall, from the Hartland family of Tewkesbury, 1782-1853 (D1406, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Archives)
79
Subjects
Dodington
Records of Lawrence, Graham and Co of London, solicitors, including papersof the Codrington
family of Dodington, 1824-1864 (D2482, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Codrington family of Dodington (D1610, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Codrington family of Dodington, including a photograph album, 1883-1917
Downend
Records of Burges, Salmon and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers of the Hughes family
relating to Cleeve Lodge, Downend, 1771-1888 (09367, 09369, 09370, 09372, Bristol Record
Office)
Doynton
Dyrham and Hinton
Records of the Blathwayt family of Dyrham (D1799, D2659, D2663, D11485, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Dorney family of Uley (D3365, Gloucestershire Archives)
Elberton
Records of Osborne, Ward, Vassall, Abbott and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers of the
Miles family, 1624-1806 (12149, 12151, 12171, Bristol Record Office)
Falfield
Marriage settlement concerning land in Falfield, 1752 (36217, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Goldingham and Jotcham of Wotton-under-Edge, solicitors, including papers of the
Pope family of Cromhall, Falfield, Kingscote and Wickwar, 1662-1892 (D654, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Bennett family of Berkeley and Falfield c.1780-1930s (D8864, Gloucestershire
Archives)
80
Subjects
Filton
Records of Osborne, Ward, Vassall, Abbott and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including:
Papers of the Seyer family, 1780-1834, and papers of Rev Samuel Seyer, 1826 (12147,
Papers of the the Brickdale family relating to the manor and advowson of Filton, 1735-1815
Fishponds
Frampton Cotterell
Office)
including:
Survey of Frampton Cotterell, undated (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Terrier of Frampton Cotterell, 1635 (32395, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Osborne Ward Vassall Abbot and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including the Clifton Wood
Collection, 1638-1884 (12160, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Stileman, Neate and Topping of London, solicitors, including marriage settlement of
William Parker of Frampton Cotterell, gentleman, and Eleanor Tucker of Winterbourne, 1825
Great Badminton
Records of Evans and Evill of Chepstow (Monmouthshire), solicitors, including records of the
Beaufort family of Badminton (D1430, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Iles family of Great Badminton and Tormarton, 19th century-20th century
Hanham Abbots
81
Subjects
Office)
Records of the Newton family of Barrs Court, Bitton (D1844, Gloucestershire Archives)
Will and related papers of John Whittuck Palmer of Hanham Hall, 1871-1923 (D2477,
Hawkesbury
Probate copy of the will of Edward Collins of Hawkesbury Upton, gentleman, 1847-1851
Records of Clark and Smith of Tetbury, solicitors, including:
Papers of the Ducie family of Tortworth (D587, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Holborow family of Hawkesbury (D587, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Iles family of Hawkesbury (D587, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Venn family of Hawkesbury (D587, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Francillon and Willott of Dursley, solicitors, including papers of the Holbrow family of
Watts family of Hawkesbury, 1781-1879 (D654, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Penley, Milward and Bayley of Dursley, solicitors, including papers of the Harding
family of Monmouthshire, 1845-1891 (D2078, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Dorney family of Uley relating to Tresham (D3365, Gloucestershire Archives)
Henbury
Office)
Carter family (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Edward Sampson concerning his estates (28048, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Gamlen, Bowerman and Forward, solicitors of London, including papers concerning
Merrett family referring to the Harris, Hobbs, Merrett and Tynte families, 1555-1700 (6685,
including surveys of Henbury, late 18th century and 1837 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Osborne Clarke of Bristol, solicitors, including papers concerning Kings Weston
House (41965, Bristol Record Office)
82
Subjects
Papers of the Miles and Southwell families relating to Charlton and Stowick, 1528-1852, and
to Kings Weston, 1811-1839 (12154, Bristol Record Office)
Papers of the Miles and Southwell families relating to Kings Weston and Lawrence Weston,
Records of the Astry family, 1544-1782 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Beaufort family of Badminton relating to Charlton (D2700, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Blaise Castle Estate, including deeds and related papers,18th and 19th
Records of the Bright family relating to Hung Road (11168, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Records of the Elbridge family, including legal papers concerning the estate of Christopher
Cole, relating to Stowick, 1776 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including papers concerning the Blaise Castle Estate
and the Kings Weston Estate at Lawrence Weston, and the Salutation Inn, Henbury, 1790
Records of the Sampson-Way family relating to Henbury, 18th-19th centuries, including records
relating to Stowick and Ableton, plan of proposed bungalows, 1898, photographs, 1926, and
sale catalogue of Henbury Manor Estate, 1947 (36553, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Southwell family of Kings Weston (12964, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Warren Jane family (09808, Bristol Record Office)
Hill
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including papers of the
Kyneton estate, c.1885-c.1939, from the Jenner-Fust family of Hill and Thornbury (D1606,
Records of the Clifford and Phelps families of Dursley (D3831, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Jenner-Fust family of Hill, including estate accounts and papers, 1698-1937
Horfield
Ashton Court Papers, including records of the Woolnough family of Bristol, 1623 (AC/WO,
83
Subjects
Seyer family, 1780-1834 (12147, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Records of the Prideaux family of Bristol, 1602-1928 (20535, Bristol Record Office)
Horton
Records of the Brooke family of Horton, including estate and family papers, (1680)-1912
(D6267, D6662, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Paston family of Horton (D5563, Gloucestershire Archives)
Iron Acton
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including family settlement
and testamentary papers, 1799-1845, and sale papers, 1827-1859, from the Alway family of
Iron Acton (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
including papers relating to E Harford's lands in Latteridge (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Hawkins family, 1690-1801 (12158, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including papers concerning the Latteridge Estate
Kingswood
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers concerning the Kingswood
of the Harris, Hobbs, Merrett and Tynte families, 1555-1700 (6685, Bristol Record Office)
Player family, plans of the colliery, 19th century (12161, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including survey of Kingswood Chase, nd [mid 17th
century] (D421, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Berkeley family of Berkeley (D2781, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Records of the Newton family of Barrs Court, Bitton, including records relating to Kingswood
84
Subjects
Chase (D1844, Gloucestershire Archives)
Little Sodbury
Records of the Stephens and Hartley families of Little Sodbury, including estate papers relating
to Little Sodbury (D871, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Crossman and Lloyd of Thornbury, solicitors, including papers of the Crossman
Records of the Cann Lippincott family of Over Court, Almondsbury, including newscutting
concerning Britannia aircraft crash at Littleton-upon-Severn, 1954 (D10904, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Mangotsfield
Records of Burges, Salmon and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including:
Papers of the Ball and Champion families of Mangotsfield, c.1610-1764 (09363, Bristol
Record Office)
Papers of the Burgess and Smyth families relating to the Hill House Estate, 1729-1908
Records of the Ford family of Bristol relating to Moorend, 1701-1901 (12163, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of the Moorend Estate, (1651)-1914 (D9090, Gloucestershire Archives)
Marshfield
Estate papers relating to estates in Marshfield, 1849 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Codrington family of Dodington, including deputation to gamekeeper for manors
of Marshfield and West Kington (Wiltshire), 1836 (D2139, Gloucestershire Archives)
85
Subjects
Old Sodbury
Records of the Burcombe family of Chipping Sodbury (D6267, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldbury-on-Severn
Cornock family of Oldbury-on-Severn (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Penley, Milward and Bayley of Dursley, solicitors, including papers of the Cornock
family of Thornbury and Oldbury-on-Severn, c.1666-1930 (D2078, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldbury-on-Severn, including papers relating to Shepperdine (D5944, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Cullimore family of Manor Farm, Morton, Thornbury, relating to Oldbury and
Shepperdine, 17th-20th centuries (D9400, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Stephens and Hartley families of Little Sodbury, including estate papers relating
to Old Sodbury (D871, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Barrow family of Oldbury-on-Severn and Rockhampton including estate
papers, 1731-1897 (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Day family (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldland
Olveston
Records of Crossman and Lloyd of Thornbury, solicitors, including papers of the Crossman
86
Subjects
Archives)
Pucklechurch
Estate papers relating to estates in Pucklechurch, 1856 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Elbridge family, including legal papers concerning the estate of Stainer
family,1776 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Rangeworthy
Records of the Elbridge family, including legal papers concerning the estate of Matthew Hale,
1776 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Redland
Records of Burges, Salmon and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers of the Burgess family
relating to Woolcot Park, Redland, 1807-1903 (21126, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Clarke, Gwynn and Press of Bristol, solicitors, including:
Papers of the Cottesloe-Freemantle family, 17th and 18th centuries (29542, 21782, Bristol
Record Office)
Papers of the Shore and Hurle families, 18th and 19th centuries (29542, 21782, Bristol
Record Office)
87
Subjects
Seyer family relating to Redland, 1780-1834 (12147, Bristol Record Office)
Rockhampton
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including records of the Cox
Player family, 1755-1851 (12161, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Thurstons and Setchell of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including papers
of the Barrow family of Oldbury-on-Severn and Rockhampton including estate papers,
St George, Bristol
Memoranda book of "TW", relating to St George, c.1813 (see person and place indexes in
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including will of Thomas Lacy of St George,
horsedriver, 1771 (35447, Bristol Record Office)
Will of James Limb of White House, St George, Bristol (D376, Gloucestershire Archives)
Will of Edward Tylor, innkeeper of the Rose and Crown, St George, Bristol, 1781 (D9775,
Records of Stileman, Neate and Topping of London, solicitors, including will of William Tyler of
St Philip and St Jacob, gentleman, 1831 (D4316, Gloucestershire Archives)
Shirehampton
Records of the Woolnough family of Bristol relating to the Shirehampton Estate, mainly 18th
century (AC/WO, Bristol Record Office)
88
Subjects
Records of the Sampson-Way family, 1709 (36553, Bristol Record Office)
Siston
Estate papers relating to estates in Siston, 1856 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Player family, 1755-1851 (12161, Bristol Record Office)
Stapleton
Records of Burges, Salmon and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers of the Smyth family
relating to Stapleton Manor, 1729-1908 (09364, Bristol Record Office)
of the Harris, Hobbs, Merrett and Tynte families, 1555-1700 (6685, Bristol Record Office)
Records of W R Powell of Bristol, solicitor, of Bristol, including papers of the Walters family,
Stoke Bishop
Ashton Court Papers, including records of the Woolnough family of Bristol, relating to the Cote
Estate and Stoke Bishop, mainly 18th century (AC/WO, Bristol Record Office)
Papers concerning Rockleaze, Stoke Bishop, 1860s (35447, Bristol Record Office)
Papers of the Harbon and Barnes families of Stoke Bishop, 1858-1887 (35447, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of G W Braikenridge, antiquary of Bristol, including papers concerning estate of the
Hale family of Bristol, relating to the Claverton Estate at Stoke Bishop, 1934-1946 (14182,
Collection, 1638-1884, including papers concerning the Cook's Folly Estate, Stoke Bishop, 1884
Records of Pepperell Pit, solicitors, including papers of the Waring family of Stoke Bishop,
89
Subjects
Records of Theodore Goddard of London, solicitor, including agreement concerning
employment of John Holloway of Sneyd Park by the St Vincent (Cape Verdes) Coaling
Company, 1895-1915 (40260, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including papers concerning the Stoke Park Estate, the
Westbury Court Estate and the Coombe House Estate (28048, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Jackson family of Sneyd Park, Westbury-on-Trym, including correspondence
and papers, 1674-1791 (D153, D4536, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Waring family of Stoke Bishop, 1658-1812 (26745, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Waring family of Stoke Bishop, 1801 (11563, Bristol Record Office)
Stoke Gifford
Thornbury
Assignments of assurance policies of Robert Screen of Kington, 1878-1881 (D2477,
Papers of the Bennett family of Thornbury (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Cox family (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Howard family of Thornbury (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Hume family of London and Thornbury, including testamentary papers,
1811-1846, and correspondence including letters from Sierra Leone about suppression of
slave trade, 1813-1830 (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Knapp family of Thornbury, (1831-1890) (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Kyneton estate, c.1885-c.1939, from the Jenner-Fust family of Hill and
Papers of the Maclaine family of Thornbury (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Screen family of Kington, 1829-1874 (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Peake and Co of London, solicitors, including executorship papers concerning the St
John family of Thornbury, (1849)-1945 (D4070, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Penley, Milward and Bayley of Dursley, solicitors, including papers of the Cornock
family of Thornbury and Oldbury-on-Severn, c.1666-1930 (D2078, Gloucestershire Archives)
90
Subjects
Records of the Howard family of Thornbury, including estate and family papers (D108,
Records of the Osborne and Maclaine families of Thornbury and the Isle of Mull (D3330,
Records of the Sampson-Way family relating to Kington, 1783 (36553, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury (D866, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Thurston family (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Wetmore family (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Will of William Jones of Thornbury, dissenting minister, 1811 (D9775, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tormarton
Tortworth
Records of Clark and Smith of Tetbury, solicitors, including papers of the Ducie family of
Tortworth (D587, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Records of the Morton family of Tortworth (D1021, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tytherington
Records of Bridges, Sawtell and Adams of London, solicitors, including estate and family papers
of the Hardwicke family of Tytherington, 1774-1940 (D4647, Gloucestershire Archives)
Office)
91
Subjects
Estate papers relating to estates in Wapley and Codrington, 1783 (D333, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Warmley
Records of Lawrence Tuckett of Bristol, solicitors, including will of Joseph Jefferis of Warmley
Westbury-on-Trym
Office)
Records of Aldworth family of Bristol and related families of Greenuffe and Hook, relating to
Sneyd Park, 1652-1724 (09459, 09860, 246, Bristol Record Office)
Papers of the Player family, 1755-1851 (12161, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Ames family of Cote House, Westbury-on-Trym and related families, 19th
century (8022, 11110, 28591, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Astry family, 1544-1782, including papers relating to Westbury College (AC,
Records of the Baker and Lowbridge families (8015, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the King family of Westbury-on-Trym, including apprenticeship indentures (D6213,
Records of the Sampson-Way family relating to The Worthies, 1783 (36553, Bristol Record
Office)
Westerleigh
92
Subjects
including survey of the manor of Westerleigh, 1826 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Wick and Abson
Estate papers relating to estates in Wick and Abson, 1856 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wickwar
Estate papers relating to estates in Wickwar, 1812 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Burges, Salmon and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers of the Smyth family
relating to the Bagstone Estate, 1729-1908 (21126, Bristol Record Office)
Batten family of Bagstone, Wickwar (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Records of the Stinchcombe family of Wickwar (D6621, Gloucestershire Archives)
Testamentary papers relating to Wickwar, 1800-1884 (D2462, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne
Office)
List of jurors impanelled to enquire into the alleged lunacy of William M Harwood, inmate of
Northwoods Asylum (D9775, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Burges, Salmon and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers of the Evans family,
93
Subjects
including surveys of Winterbourne, 1783, and Sturdon, 1795 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Creswick family of Hanham Court and related families relating to Hambrook,
Records of the Danvers family of Thornbury relating to Hambrook (D1928, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Yate
Records of Stileman, Neate and Topping of London, solicitors, including will and related papers
of Rev Henry Jones Randolph of Yate House, gentleman, 1866-1890 (D4316, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Archives)
Testamentary papers relating to Yate, 1813 (D2462, Gloucestershire Archives)
94
Subjects
Gloucestershire County Council
County Councils were established by the Local Government Act 1888 to carry out most of the
administrative work previously done by the court of Quarter Sessions. The administrative
history of Gloucestershire County Council to 1974 is discussed in some detail in M J Kerr
History of Gloucestershire County Council (Gloucestershire County Council, 1977) (available at
Gloucestershire Archives). The principal services for which the Council has at some time been
responsible include education, highways, planning, public health and the social services.
The local government reorganization of 1974 created a new county of Avon, to which the
southern portion of Gloucestershire was transferred. Avon County Council was abolished on 31
March 1996 as a result of a further reorganisation.
The area of Avon formerly in
Gloucestershire was constituted a new unitary authority named South Gloucestershire with
effect from 1 April 1996. In 1974 many files relating wholly to Avon were transferred to the new
County Council; the surviving records of that Council are now administered for the new
authorities by Bristol Record Office.
This section has been arranged so that general references are given first, following by
references to particular subjects within the County Council records. These are given in
summary form, and researchers should check the Places section of this guide for detailed
references to the parishes in which they are interested.
Gloucestershire County Council - general
Tree preservation orders, listed by parish and place, 1948-1974 (C/CP/O/3, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Bristol
Gloucestershire County Council agreements including Bristol Corporation Bill, 1918 between
Gloucestershire County Council, Thornbury Rural District Council and Bristol City (C/CC/A/9,
Records of the Planning Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including papers
concerning University of Bristol research construction group, 1946-50 (K149/12,
Records of the Planning Department of Gloucestershire County Council relating to
'Gloucestershire, A Physical, Social and Economic Survey and Plan' by G E Payne, F.R.G.S.,
including:
Bristol Chamber of Commerce and Shipping, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SB1/9, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Bristol limestone beds, population, bus services, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SB1/10-18,
Port of Bristol, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SE/4/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol region, refuse collection and sub soil water, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SB1/1-3,
95
Subjects
Chipping Sodbury
Records of the Treasurer's Department of Gloucestershire County Council including an
Establishment Register for Issue of Licences, Chipping Sodbury, 1927-1930 (C/AF/1/28/1,
Downend
Gloucestershire County Council Education Committee correspondence including education of
children from Guardians cottage homes, Downend, 1915-17 (C/CE/C/1, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Fishponds
Gloucestershire County Council agreements including financial adjustment on the extension of
Bristol and report on County Lunatic Asylum [Stapleton], (1904)-1911 (C/CC/A/8,
Kingswood
Gloucestershire County Council byelaws: prohibition of riding of bicycles including on footpaths
in Kingswood Urban District, 1954 (C/CC/Ob 1/13/7, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Theatres and Cinemas Licensing Committee of Gloucestershire County Council
including Ambassador Cinema, Kingswood, [undated] (C/CTC/P/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Mangotsfield
Gloucestershire County Council byelaws: prohibition of riding of bicycles including on footpaths
in Mangotsfield Urban District, 1952, 1956 (C/CC/Ob 1/13/6, 8, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire County Council byelaws: prohibition of riding of bicycles including sea wall
between Severn Beach, New Passage, Redwick and Northwick, 1948 (C/CC/Ob 1/13/1,
Thornbury
Records of Thurstons and Setchell of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including records
of the Thornbury Old Age Pensions Sub-Committee, 1906-1916 (D1578, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Westbury-on-Trym
Records of the Smallholdings Committee of Gloucestershire County Council including
96
Subjects
correspondence concerning Westbury-on-Trym allotments, 1895-97 (C/CS/C/1/7,
Wickwar
Records of Special Committees of Gloucestershire County Council including Wickwar Stream
pollution, 1893 (C/CX/M1/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne
Gloucestershire County Council Education Committee agreements including Winterbourne
playing field, 1970 (C/CE/A/6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Yate
Records of the Theatres and Cinemas Licensing Committee of Gloucestershire County Council
including cinema at Yate, 1945 (C/CTC/P/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire County Council - boundaries
Records of the Local Areas Committee of Gloucestershire County Council including large maps
of Bristol extension showing police stations, 1897 (C/CL/P/47, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Planning Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including maps and
plans of boundary review areas including maps referred to in the Bristol Order 1966; areas
transferred from Gloucestershire to Bristol, 1966 (K180/57, Gloucestershire Archives)
Almondsbury
plans of boundary review areas including proposed shopping centre Severndale at Catbrain,
Almondsbury, 1970 (K180/68, Gloucestershire Archives)
Aust
plans of boundary review areas including boundary extension on Bristol fringe with population
estimates and site of Severn Bridge, 1959 (K180/25, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bitton
Gloucestershire County Council orders affecting boundaries and wards including Bitton, 1960
(K179/14, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol
97
Subjects
Records of the Local Areas Committee of Gloucestershire County Council including:
Large maps of Bristol Extension [undated] (C/CL/P/6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Large maps of Bristol Extension [undated] showing parts of Henbury, Filton and
Winterbourne to Bristol ; Stoke Park Colony to Stoke Gifford (C/CL/P/7, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Large maps of Bristol proposed extension Horfield, Stapleton, St George, Oldland and
Westbury-on-Trym, 1897 (C/CL/P/48, 49, Gloucestershire Archives)
Large maps of Bristol with Horfield and St George coloured and Poor Law Unions and Urban
Districts shown, [undated] (C/CL/P/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Large maps showing proposed boundary between Horfield and Bristol, 1898 (C/CL/P/53,
Records of Special Committees of Gloucestershire County Council including:
Bristol boundaries, 1894 (C/CX/M1/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol boundaries extension, 1895-1904 (C/CX/M3/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol and Gloucester adjustment [boundaries], 1904 (C/CX/M1/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Bristol Boundaries Committee of Gloucestershire County Council including:
Photographs of Durdham Downs, Sneyd Park, Stoke Hill to Downleaze, River Avon and high
land by Westbury; views from Horfield Common to Purdown; Fishponds village; Stapleton
fields, Staple Hill and Soundwell, 1897 (C/CX/L/27, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the County Clerk's Department of Gloucestershire County Council including:
Correspondence and papers concerning proposed extension of boundaries of Bristol, 1946
(C/AC/L1/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Correspondence concerning proposals concerning urban districts, boroughs and county
boroughs including Bristol County Borough, 1929-1937 (C/AC/C6/3/22, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Planning Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including:
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including boundary extension on Bristol fringe with
population estimates and site of Severn Bridge, 1959 (K180/25, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including City of Bristol housing supply and
demand (1947-1971), 1945 (K180/5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including City of Bristol population trends and
forecasts, (1921-1973), 1945 (K180/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including maps referred to in the Bristol Order
1966; areas transferred from Gloucestershire to Bristol, 1966 (K180/57, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including South West General Review Area,
Bristol Boundary, 1958 (K180/15, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including statutory instrument, the Bristol Order,
1966 (K180/61, Gloucestershire Archives)
Chipping Sodbury
98
Subjects
Gloucestershire County Council orders affecting boundaries and wards including Sodbury, 1957
Large maps [undated] of proposed extension of Chipping Sodbury after 1924 (C/CL/P/24,
Records of the County Clerk's Department of Gloucestershire County Council including
correspondence concerning Sodbury as a propsed new civil parish, 1938-1946 (C/AC/C6/1/36,
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including bus services and routes in Sodbury area,
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including parish council proposals, Thornbury and
Sodbury Rural Districts, 1965 (K180/46, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including Thornbury Rural District and Sodbury
Rural District boundary proposals, 1965 (K180/45, Gloucestershire Archives)
Clifton
Coalpit Heath
plans of boundary review areas including Coalpit Heath and Westerleigh electoral wards,
c.1968 (K180/66, Gloucestershire Archives)
Falfield
Large maps of Falfield, Oldbury-on-Severn, and Thornbury, 1894 (C/CL/P/44,
Correspondence concerning local areas and elections: Falfield, Oldbury-on-Severn and
Thornbury: new civil parishes, 1894 (C/AC/C6/1/20, Gloucestershire Archives)
Filton
Winterbourne to Bristol; Stoke Park Colony to Stoke Gifford (C/CL/P/7, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Large maps of proposed Filton Urban District [undated] (C/CL/P/14, Gloucestershire
Archives)
99
Subjects
correspondence concerning Filton as a proposed urban district, 1937-1942 (C/AC/C6/1/35,
plans of boundary review areas including Filton ward boundaries, 1950 (K180/6,
Fishponds
Frampton Cotterell
plans of boundary review areas including Frampton Cotterell electoral wards, c.1967 (K180/65,
Hanham Abbots
Gloucestershire County Council orders affecting boundaries and wards including Hanham
Abbots, 1960 (K179/14, Gloucestershire Archives)
correspondence concerning local areas and elections: Hanham, Oldland and Mangotsfield,
creation of new civil parish of Kingswood, 1894 (C/AC/C6/1/18, Gloucestershire Archives)
Hawkesbury
of Hawkesbury [undated] (C/CL/P/18, Gloucestershire Archives)
Henbury
Archives)
Horfield
Large maps Bristol with Horfield and St George coloured and Poor Law Unions and Urban
100
Subjects
Kingswood
Gloucestershire County Council orders affecting boundaries and wards including Kingswood
Urban District, 1957 (K179/14, Gloucestershire Archives)
Correspondence concerning local areas and elections: Hanham, Oldland and Mangotsfield,
Correspondence concerning local areas and elections: Kingswood and Oldland, new civil
parishes, 1889-1890 (C/AC/C6/1/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
boroughs including Kingswood Urban District, 1929-1937 (C/AC/C6/3/12, Gloucestershire
Archives)
plans of boundary review areas including Kingsfield Urban District, 1967 (K180/64,
Little Sodbury
Mangotsfield
Gloucestershire County Council orders affecting boundaries and wards including Mangotsfield
Urban District, [undated] (K179/18, Gloucestershire Archives)
boroughs including Mangotsfield Urban District, 1929-1937 (C/AC/C6/3/13, Gloucestershire
101
Subjects
Archives)
plans of boundary review areas including Kingsfield Urban District, 1967 (K180/64,
Old Sodbury
Oldbury-on-Severn
Oldland
Gloucestershire County Council orders affecting boundaries and wards including Oldland, 1953
Correspondence concerning local areas and elections: Kingswood and Oldland, new civil
parishes, 1889-1890 (C/AC/C6/1/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Cases sent to Counsel for legal opinion including highways at Oldland, 1895-96 (C/CC/L/5,
102
Subjects
[undated] of Severn Beach proposed parish (C/CL/P/23, Gloucestershire Archives)
St George, Bristol
Soundwell
Stapleton
Stoke Gifford
Archives)
Thornbury
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including bus services and routes in Thornbury
area, 1965 (K180/42, Gloucestershire Archives)
103
Subjects
Warmley
[undated] of Warmley Rural District Council (C/CL/P/29, Gloucestershire Archives)
Westbury-on-Trym
Westerleigh
plans of boundary review areas including Coalpit Heath and Westerleigh electoral wards,
Winterbourne
Archives)
Gloucestershire County Council - building, planning and development
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963 (C/CC/B, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the South Gloucestershire Planning Committee of Gloucestershire County Council,
including:
Planning registers, 1953-1989, and microfiche of planning applications, to 1974 (C/CP,
accessions 10853 and 11367 (uncatalogued), Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Joint Committees of Gloucestershire County Council, including Rural Housing
surveys of Sodbury, Thornbury and Warmley areas, 1945-47 (C/CJ/5/R/2, Gloucestershire
Archives)
104
Subjects
Development plan and survey including by-passes and diversions, South Gloucestershire,
1958-1971 (C/AP/R8/56, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning agricultural land lost since 1945 and land required in World War II,
1957-1968 (K149/62, Gloucestershire Archives)
Almondsbury
plans of Almondsbury development c.1949-50 (C/AP/P/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Aust
Development plan and survey including motorway service area at Aust, 1962-1970 (K193/62,
Development plan and survey including Severn Road Bridge, 1964-1973 (K193/61,
Bristol
Development plan and survey including city of Bristol development plan, 1965-1970
Development plan and survey including school sites and building programmes Bristol area,
Papers concerning administration of planning in Bristol area, 1939-48 (K149/23,
Chipping Sodbury
Maps and plans prepared for development of Chipping Sodbury, c.1945-1950 (C/AP/P/1,
Papers relating to 'Gloucestershire, A Physical, Social and Economic Survey and Plan' by G
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including postwar development of Chipping Sodbury and Yate, c.1940-45
(C/AP/R/1/SB1/19, Gloucestershire Archives)
Yate and Chipping Sodbury Town Map, 1969 (K1974, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps relating to land use and development in Chipping Sodbury, 1948-1969 (K1974,
Cold Ashton
Records of the Planning Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including undated
photographs c.1955-74 including Cold Ashton, Tog Hill picnic site, 1972 (K371/1,
105
Subjects
Filton
Records of the Planning Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including development
plan and survey including Filton by-pass, 1952-1965 (C/AP/R8/55, Gloucestershire Archives)
Hawkesbury
photographs c.1955-74 including Hawkesbury, Stanley Wood (K371/19, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Marshfield
concerning land use and development in Marshfield, c.1960-1963 (K1974, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Oldbury-on-Severn
Records of the Highways Department of Gloucestershire County Council including
correspondence, reports and papers concerning conversion of Camp farmhouse, Oldbury-onSevern, under the Housing (Rural Workers) Act 1926, 1938 (C/AC/C3/22/18, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Olveston
plans of Olveston area development, c.1949-50 (C/AP/P/5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Patchway
Gloucestershire County Council Education Committee correspondence including new infants'
school, Patchway, 1946 (C/CE/C/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
concerning revocation of consent for cinema site at Patchway, 1950-51 (K149/29,
Stoke Gifford
Development plan and survey including Polytechnic site at Stoke Gifford [now University of
West of England], 1963-1968 (K193/74, Gloucestershire Archives)
Development plan including Bristol coal field, Harry Stoke Colliery, 1948-1964 (K193/11,
Thornbury
Undated photographs c.1955-74 including Thornbury High Street (K371/30, Gloucestershire
Archives)
106
Subjects
Development Plans for Thornbury, with related papers including maps, 1948-1964 (K1974,
Winterbourne Down
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Winterbourne Down
(C/CC/B, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire County Council Education Committee correspondence including Cadonia,
Winterborne Down, 1944-46 (C/CE/C/7, Gloucestershire Archives)
Yate
Maps and plans prepared for development of Yate, c.1945-1950 (C/AP/P/1, Gloucestershire
Archives)
107
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Hospitals and health services
This section includes records of the hospitals and asylums in the South Gloucestershire area,
as well as other health-related records including those of child health clinics, district nursing
associations and health authorities. For a detailed overview of hospital and asylum provision in
Bristol, see the introduction to this guide.
Records of the Gloucestershire Federation of Child Health Clinics, covering the South
Gloucestershire area (D2429, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Medical Officer of Health for Gloucestershire including reports of the South
Gloucestershire Medical Officer of Health Joint Committee, 1953-1972 (C/AM/R2/14,
Records of the South West Regional Health Authority (40837, Bristol Record Office)
South Gloucestershire Joint Medical Officer of Health Committee minutes, 1937-1953 (DA8,
Almondsbury
A Short History of Almondsbury Ambulance Service, 2000 (D8869, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Almondsbury Child Health Clinic (D2429, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Almondsbury Memorial Hospital (40172, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Southmead Health Authority, including Almondsbury Hospital (39880, Bristol Record
Office)
Alveston
Records of Alveston and Tytherington District Nursing Association (D425, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Chipping Sodbury
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including nurses' home at
Kingrove, Chipping Sodbury, 1950 (C/CC/B/521, Gloucestershire Archives)
Letters testimonial in favour of midwives, for Chipping Sodbury 1712 (GDR/C8/2,
Records of the Medical Officer of Health for Gloucestershire including reports of Sodbury Rural
District Council Medical Officer of Health, 1938, 1940-52 (C/AM/R2/13, Gloucestershire
Archives)
relating to 'Gloucestershire, A Physical, Social and Economic Survey and Plan' by G E Payne,
F.R.G.S., including tuberculosis in Sodbury Rural District Council area c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SS/
6g/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Coalpit Heath
Records of Coalpit Heath Child Health Clinic (D2429, Gloucestershire Archives)
Downend
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Wendover Maternity
Home, Downend, 1943 (C/CC/B/286, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Downend Child Health Clinic (D2429, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dyrham and Hinton
Letters testimonial in favour of midwives and surgeons, for Hinton 1707 (GDR/C8/2,
Filton
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Filton Health Centre,
1939 (C/CC/B/268, Gloucestershire Archives)
Fishponds
J C Bompas Collection, including papers relating to Fishponds Lunatic Asylum, 1848 (58, 1382,
1383, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of Glenside Hospital and Bristol Lunatic Asylum (40513, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Bompas family of Stapleton, 1747-1856, relating to Fishponds Lunatic Asylum
Frampton Cotterell
Records of Frampton Cotterell Child Health Clinic (D2429, Gloucestershire Archives)
Letters testimonial in favour of surgeons, for Frampton Cotterell 1721 (GDR/C8/2,
Frenchay
Records of Cossham and Frenchay Hospital (HO50, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Frenchay Hospital: Monica Britton Memorial Hall Exhibition of Medical History (see
person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Monica Britton Medical History Collection, Frenchay, 1987-2008 (42919, Bristol
Record Office)
109
Subjects
Records of the Burden Neurological Institute (HO50, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Frenchay Hospital Trust (HA25, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Frenchay Park Sanatorium (HO52, Gloucestershire Archives)
Iron Acton
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including erection of nurses'
house at Iron Acton, 1955 (C/CC/B/857, Gloucestershire Archives)
Letters testimonial in favour of midwives, for Iron Acton, 1708 (GDR/C8/2, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Kingswood
Kingswood Local Board of Health: Public Health Inspector records, 1933-1974, including
register of licensed slaughtermen, 1938-1948, and registers of notifications of infectious
diseases, 1948-1974 (DA8, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Cossham Memorial Hospital (41171, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Gloucestershire Area Health Authority (HA1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Gloucestershire County Nursing Association, including reports of Kingswood District
Nursing Association, 1943-1948 (D4057, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Kingswood Child Health Clinic (D2429, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Medical Officer of Health for Gloucestershire including reports of Kingswood
Urban District Council Medical Officer of Health 1910, 1933-47 (C/AM/R2/10/1, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Little Sodbury
Letters testimonial in favour of midwives, for Little Sodbury 1592 (GDR/C8/2, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Archives)
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including tuberculosis in Sodbury Rural District Council area c.1940-45
(C/AP/R/1/SS/6g/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Mangotsfield
house at Staple Hill, 1955 (C/CC/B/857, Gloucestershire Archives)
110
Subjects
Records of the Medical Officer of Health for Gloucestershire including reports of Mangotsfield
Urban District Council Medical Officer of Health, 1938-41, 1947-48, 1950 (C/AM/R2/11,
Records of the Medical Officer of Health including reports of the Central Gloucestershire United
Districts Joint Committee for Warmley Rural District Council enquiry into proposed Mangotsfield
Urban Council, 1924 (C/AM/R2/17/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Old Sodbury
Archives)
Records of Gloucestershire County Nursing Association, including minutes of Pilning District
St George, Bristol
Records of general practice of Doctors Foss and Culank, St George, 1934-1961 (44205, Bristol
Record Office)
Southmead
Records of Southmead Health Authority (39880, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Southmead Hospital Anglican Chaplaincy (C.SH, Bristol Record Office)
Stapleton
Records of Manor Park and Blackberry Hill Hospitals, including records of Glenside Hospital,
formerly Stapleton Institution (43127, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Stapleton Local Board of Health, including deeds and related papers of Stapleton
Smallpox Hospital, 1893-1894 (22936, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Stoke Park Hospital (39910, 40686, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Burden Institute (11177, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Burden Trust (40756, Bristol Record Office)
Stoke Gifford
house at Little Stoke, 1955 (C/CC/B/857, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Stoke Gifford Child Health Clinic (D2429, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Thornbury
Records of Thornbury Hospital (38034, Bristol Record Office)
Aerial photographs of Thornbury Hospital, 1990s (D10436, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tytherington
Archives)
Warmley
Records of the Medical Officer of Health for Gloucestershire including reports of Warmley Rural
District Council Medical Officer of Health, 1895-1915, 1919-1938, 1944-1952 (C/AM/R2/17/1,
Westbury-on-Trym
Records of Joint Committees of Gloucestershire County Council, including the Mental
Deficiency Institution (Brentry Colony), Westbury-on-Trym (formerly Royal Victoria Homes for
Inebriates), 1898-1945 (C/CJ/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Annual reports, statements of account and managers' minutes for Brentry Certified Institutions
[formerly Brentry Certified Inebriate Reformatory], 1909-1931 (RF329.2GS, R329.7GS,
R329.13GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Brentry Hospital (40359, 40795, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including papers concerning St Monica Home of
Rest, 1919 (SMV, Bristol Record Office)
Winterbourne
house at Winterbourne, 1955 (C/CC/B/857, Gloucestershire Archives)
List of jurors impanelled to enquire into the alleged lunacy of William M Harwood, inmate of
Northwoods Asylum (D9775, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Hambrook Village Hospital (HO53, Gloucestershire Archives)
112
Subjects
Inclosure
Early in the 18th century a great series of private acts of enclosure of land by landowners, was
passed before the General Inclosure Act of 1845. Inclosure maps were drawn up by surveyors,
appointed by inclosure commissioners, to show the approved re-allotment of the open and
common fields, and waste. The maps depict, in detail, a post-inclosure plan of each parish with
the lines of the new boundary hedges or fences, drains, and roads. Occasionally the boundaries
of the former open fields and commons are also shown.
Inclosure maps often provide the first accurate mapping of an area, and in some cases the first
map of any kind. At least two copies of each map and award were made, one to be held in the
parish and the other enrolled at the Quarter Sessions. Sometimes a third copy was also made
for the local landowner. In many cases the copies for South Gloucestershire parishes are now
with the Bristol Record Office or the Gloucestershire Archives amongst the parish collections,
Quarter Sessions papers, solicitors or estate and family collections.
Records relating to inclosure include the maps, awards detailing the occupiers and state of
cultivation of the land to be inclosed, the Inclosure Acts, and papers of the Inclosure
Commissioners appointed to carry out the process.
Almondsbury
Inclosure award relating to Almondsbury, 1822 (Q/RI/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including minutes, accounts
and papers of Alveston, Tockington and Olveston Inclosure Commissioners, 1836-1847
including Act for inclosing the Salt Marsh, Marsh Common, 1814 (32395, Bristol Record Office)
including inclosure acts, maps and plans relating to Almondsbury, 1801, 1814 (31965, Bristol
Record Office)
Alveston
Inclosure award relating to Alveston, 1839 (Q/RI/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bitton
Inclosure awards relating to Bitton, 1827, 1865 (Q/RI/23, Q/RI/24, Gloucestershire Archives)
Charfield
Inclosure award relating to Charfield, 1839 (Q/RI/38, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Chipping Sodbury
Inclosure award relating to Sodbury Commons, 1908 (Q/RI/131, Gloucestershire Archives)
Compton Greenfield
Inclosure award relating to Westbury-on-Trym, Henbury and Compton Greenfield, 1822
(Q/RI/154, Gloucestershire Archives)
Cromhall
Inclosure award relating to Wickwar, Cromhall and Tortworth, 1839 (Q/RI/157, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Filton
Inclosure award relating to Filton, 1857 (Q/RI/66, Gloucestershire Archives)
Frampton Cotterell
Inclosure award relating to Frampton Cotterell, 1831 (Q/RI/67, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including accounts of
Frampton Cotterell Inclosure Commissioners, 1824-1831 (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Hawkesbury
Inclosure award relating to Kilcot, 1843 (Q/RI/77, Gloucestershire Archives)
Inclosure award relating to Tresham, 1827 (Q/RI/78, Gloucestershire Archives)
Henbury
Hill
Inclosure award relating to Hill, 1867 (Q/RI/80, Gloucestershire Archives)
Horton
Inclosure award relating to Horton, 1815 (Q/RI/81, Gloucestershire Archives)
Iron Acton
Inclosure award relating to Iron Acton, 1780 (Q/RI/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Kingswood
Kingswood Common Inclosure Map, 1781 (6905, Bristol Record Office )
Inclosure award relating to Stapleton, including part of Kingswood, 1781 (Q/RI/134,
114
Subjects
Little Sodbury
Marshfield
Inclosure award relating to Marshfield, 1852 (Q/RI/97, Gloucestershire Archives)
Old Sodbury
Olveston
Inclosure award relating to Olveston, 1844 (Q/RI/111, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records concerning the inclosure of Olveston Manor (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Rockhampton
Inclosure award relating to Rockhampton, 1839 (Q/RI/118, Gloucestershire Archives)
Stapleton
Inclosure award relating to Stapleton, 1781 (Q/RI/134, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury
Inclosure award relating to Thornbury, 1836 (Q/RI/142, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tortworth
Archives)
Westbury-on-Trym
Records relating to Westbury-on-Trym Inclosure, 1822 (3809, Bristol Record Office)
Wickwar
Archives)
115
Subjects
Winterbourne
Inclosure award relating to Winterbourne, 1831 (Q/RI/161, Gloucestershire Archives)
Yate
Inclosure award relating to Yate, 1844 (Q/RI/164, Gloucestershire Archives)
116
Subjects
Industry, trade and business
This section covers the records of the industries, trades and businesses in the South
Gloucestershire area, including records of the mining and quarrying industry, the manufacturing
industry, and businesses such as solicitors, architects and estate agents. It also includes
records of smaller businesses such as shops and tradesmen, and records relating to the
general economy of the area.
General records are listed first, and then records relating to particular industries.
Industry, trade and business - general
Avonmouth
Plan of Royal Edward and Avonmouth Docks, [20th century] (43659, Bristol Record Office) \
Chipping Sodbury
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Thornbury and Sodbury, economical industry, c.1940-45 (C/AP/
R/1/SE/2a/C, Gloucestershire Archives)
Clifton
Records of Clifton Caterers Company Ltd, 1911-1981 (44667, Bristol Record Office)
Filton
Records of Moffat Solutions of Filton, providers of health and safety services, 1997 (44231,
Kingswood
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Kingswood, Mangotsfield and Warmley, economical industry,
c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SE/2a/D, Gloucestershire Archives)
Little Sodbury
Mangotsfield
117
Subjects
Old Sodbury
Thornbury
Warmley
Industry, trade and business - architects
Records of Dancey and Meredith of Gloucester, architects, including papers relating mainly to
commercial and industrial premises in Gloucestershire and surrounding counties, c.1938-1975
Records of Fulljames and Waller of Gloucester, architects, including papers concerning their
work as County Surveyors and Surveyors to the Diocese of Gloucester, covering the South
Gloucestershire area, 1832-1906 (D1381, D2593, D2752, Gloucestershire Archives)
Acton Turville
Records of Blair and Curd of Chipping Sodbury, architects, 1963-1973 (D4634, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Chipping Sodbury
Archives)
118
Subjects
Kingswood
Archives)
Old Sodbury
Archives)
Tormarton
Archives)
Industry, trade and business - banking
Bristol
Records of the Hale family of Alderley, including records relating to Tyndale, Symmer, Worall
and Hale of Bristol, bankers, later known as the Exchange Bank, 1763-1796 (D1086,
Thornbury
Records of Thornbury Savings Bank, 1818-1889 (D174, Gloucestershire Archives)
Industry, trade and business - brewing and public houses
Avonmouth
Records of Constellation Europe, formerly Matthew Clark and Sons Ltd and originally John
Harvey, wine producer and warehouse, c.1964-2009 (44160, 44448, Bristol Record Office)
Bristol
Records of Crossman and Thurston of Thornbury, solicitors, including records of R W Miller and
Co of Bristol, brewers and wine merchants (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wickwar
Records of Wickwar Brewery, including register of properties, 1897-1923 (D2242,
Yate
Records of B S Tait of Gloucester and Tirley, architect, including papers concerning the
119
Subjects
Codrington Arms, Yate: alterations for the Cheltenham and Hereford Brewery Company, 1951
Industry, trade and business - coal mining and quarrying
Records of British Coal and its predecessor bodies in South Gloucestershire, including Stoke
Gifford, Harry Stoke, Coalpit Heath, Westerleigh, Filton and Wickwar Collieries, 1933-1991
Maps showing Bristol coalfields, 1862 (44432, Bristol Record Office)
Almondsbury
Records of the County Clerk's Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including:
Cases sent to Counsel for legal opinion including Tockington Quarry, 1890-91 (C/CC/L/5,
Bitton
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers concerning Hole Lane Colliery
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including agreement relating to coal mining, 1707
Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, including maps and plans of Golden Valley
Colliery, 1852-1917 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Bristol
Papers of H Cossham concerning the north end of the Bristol coalfields and education in
Pucklechurch c.1861 (3464, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of Handel Cossham, colliery owner and MP for Bristol East, including papers
concerning Bristol coalfield, 1862-1884 (9492, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Osborne Ward Vassall Abbott and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers
concerning the Bristol coalfield, from the Player family of Bristol, 1719-1881 (12161, Bristol
Record Office)
Chipping Sodbury
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Sodbury development scheme deposits of celestine, c.1940-45
(C/AP/R/1/SM/9b, Gloucestershire Archives)
120
Subjects
Coalpit Heath
Records of British Coal and its predecessor bodies in South Gloucestershire, including Coalpit
Heath and Westerleigh Collieries, 1933-1991 (D8343, Gloucestershire Archives)
concerning Coalpit Heath colliery, 1872-1928 (9492, Bristol Record Office)
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Coalpit Heath Colliery Co, chemical analysis of coal, c.1940-45
(C/AP/R/1/SP/2/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Downend
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including papers concerning quarries in Downend and
coal mining, 1684-1743 (D421, Gloucestershire Archives)
Filton
Records of British Coal and its predecessor bodies in South Gloucestershire, including Filton
Colliery, 1933-1991 (D8343, Gloucestershire Archives)
Iron Acton
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including note of damage done when coal mine at
Westerleigh was drowned, 1716, and articles of agreement relating to coal mining, 1750 (D421,
Kingswood
concerning Kingswood colliery, 1872-1933 (9492, Bristol Record Office)
concerning Kingswood Collieries, from the Player family of Bristol, 1719-1881 (12161, Bristol
Record Office)
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Kingswood coalfield c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SB1/4,
Little Sodbury
121
Subjects
Mangotsfield
concerning Mangotsfield, Parkfield and Soundwell collieries, 1867-1935 (9492, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of the County Clerk's Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including legal
matters including mineral rights, 1913-1917 (C/CC/L/5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Old Sodbury
St George, Bristol
concerning Speedwell colliery, 1872-1928 (9492, Bristol Record Office)
Siston
concerning Siston Hill colliery, 1867-1935 (9492, Bristol Record Office)
Soundwell
concerning Mangotsfield, Parkfield and Soundwell collieries, 1867-1935 (9492, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of Osborne Ward Vassall Abbott and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers and
plans concerning Soundwell Colliery, from the Player family of Bristol, 1719-1881 (12161,
Stoke Gifford
Gifford and Harry Stoke Collieries, 1933-1991 (D8343, Gloucestershire Archives)
plan including Bristol coal field, Harry Stoke Colliery, 1948-1964 (K193/11, Gloucestershire
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Subjects
Archives)
Westerleigh
Records of the Astry family, including estate papers concerning collieries, 1652-1823 (AC,
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including papers concerning coal mining, 1716-1719,
including note of damage done when coal mine at Westerleigh was drowned, 1716 (D421,
Wickwar
Records of British Coal and its predecessor bodies in South Gloucestershire, including Wickwar
Yate
Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, including maps and plans of Yate Colliery,
1852-1917 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Industry, trade and business - estate agents
Thornbury
Records of Luce of Thornbury, estate agents and auctioneers, 1863-1869 (D4919,
Records of Young and Howes of Thornbury, estate agents and auctioneers, c.1911-c.1963
Industry, trade and business - farming
Notes of references to agriculture in the Gloucester Journal, c.1820-1850 (D2098,
Bristol
Records of the National Farmers' Union, Bristol branch (D2399, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Chipping Sodbury
Records of the Chipping Sodbury branch of the Gloucestershire Farmers' Union (D161,
Records of the National Farmers' Union, Chipping Sodbury branch (D2399, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Iron Acton
Accounts of Acton Court Farm, 1867-1876 (D1588, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury
Accounts of Kington Farm, Thornbury, 1616-1644 (D3673, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Mutual Insurance Society concerning cattle plague, 1865 (35192, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of the National Farmers' Union, Thornbury branch (D2399, Gloucestershire Archives)
Westerleigh
Labour account for Brice's Farm, Westerleigh, 1884-1934 (D5382, Gloucestershire Archives)
Industry, trade and business - fisheries
Oldbury-on-Severn
Records of the Special Commissioners for English Fisheries concerning salmon fishing at
Shepperdine, 1866 (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Industry, trade and business – manufacturing and engineering
Almondsbury
Shortwood Brick Company, Over Lane, Almondsbury: correspondence, 2000 (D9109,
Avonmouth
Records of Sevalco, formerly Philblack, Avonmouth, chemical works, c.1950-c.2009 (44123,
Records of Stride Brothers of Bristol, builders, mostly relating to Sneyd Park, Shirehampton and
Avonmouth, [20th century] (44365, Bristol Record Office)
Bristol
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Subjects
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including partnership deed
and papers relating to the Ward and Overbury Turpentine Works, Bristol, from the Ward family
of Tockington (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Filton
Records of South Gloucestershire events compiled by members of the police force including
copy photographs of Parnell monoplane landing at Filton aerodrome c.1928 and work underway
in the Bristol Aeroplane Company factory, Filton, during World War I (D9110, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Francis Alexander Simpson, technical artist, including work done for Douglas
Motors, Matchless, Vincent HRD, Imperial Airways and the Bristol Aeroplane Company,
Records of Bristol Aeroplane Company, aircraft manufacturers, 1914-1921 (44590, Bristol
Record Office)
Photographs of Bristol Aeroplane Company aircraft (44592, Bristol Record Office)
Fishponds
Plans of proposed factory for Robinson Waxed Paper Company Ltd, Fishponds, 1928 (44211,
Records of Parnall and Sons of Fishponds and Yate, aircraft manufacturers, 1921-1940s
Kingswood
Records of the Douglas family of Kingswood, including photographs of the Douglas motorcycle
factory in Kingswood, 1930s-1940s (D9112, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Flook family of Kingswood, including records relating to boot and shoe
manufacturing in Kingswood, 1950-1982 (D8868, Gloucestershire Archives)
Mangotsfield
Records of the Great Western Cotton Company of Bristol relating to Moorend (12142, Bristol
Record Office)
Old Sodbury
Memorandum of agreement concerning Old Sodbury brickyard, 1899 (D8992, Gloucestershire
Archives)
St George, Bristol
Records of the Great Western Cotton Company of Bristol relating to St George (12142, Bristol
Record Office)
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Subjects
Shirehampton
Westbury-on-Trym
Yate
Industry, trade and business - merchants and retailers
Bristol
Records of Blagden of Bristol, merchant, 1755-1756 (D1086, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Ford of Bristol, merchant, 1968-1973 (D5355, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Richard Pranchard of Bristol, merchant (P74, Gloucestershire Archives)
Chipping Sodbury
Records of Ernest H Powell of Yate and Chipping Sodbury, cycle dealer, 1903 (D4797,
Shirehampton
Records of Bendall's Stores, c.1911-c.1960, including branch at 19 High Street, Shirehampton
Westbury-on-Trym
Records of Bendall's Stores, c.1911-c.1960, including branch at 43 North View, Westbury Park
Yate
Industry, trade and business - solicitors
This section lists the office records of solicitors’ practices in South Gloucestershire. However,
solicitors’ archives not only concern their practices but also include the papers of their clients
and many organisations with which they were involved. These include many deeds and related
papers concerning south Gloucestershire families, charities, societies and other organisations,
which have been listed under the relevant subject headings in this guide.
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Subjects
Records relating to South Gloucestershire can be found among the records of firms practicing in
South Gloucestershire, but also firms from Bristol and other parts of Gloucestershire.
Records of Burges, Salmon and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers relating to the South
Gloucestershire area (40154, Bristol Record Office)
Records of David Lees and Co of Bristol, solicitors (43116, Bristol Record Office)
Alveston
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including office papers of J M
Baxter, solicitor (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury
Records of Crossman and Co of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including office papers
(D1606, D1628, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Crossman and Lloyd of Thornbury, solicitors, including office papers (D1606,
D1628, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including office papers of R
Scarlett, attorney (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Industry, trade and business - tradesmen
Records of firm of South Gloucestershire carriers and hauliers, 1724-1760 [name unknown]
Hanham
Records of S Gillett of Hanham, farrier and general smith, 1930s-1940s (D8870,
Thornbury
Records of Hodges of Thornbury, carpenters, c.1880-1908 (D4764, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Lieutenancy
The Lieutenant of the County, now called the Lord Lieutenant, was first appointed in
Gloucestershire in 1569, as the officer commanding the local militia. The surviving records
relate, however, largely to the period after the reorganization of the militia in 1852. A list of the
known Lords Lieutenant was printed in the TBGAS vol 70 p154 and vol 71 pp174-5, and an
account of the militia organization appears in the Guide to Quarter Sessions and official records
(see p76). An account of the evolution of the office of Deputy Lieutenant is given in [D J H
Smith], A history of the appointment of Deputy Lieutenant in Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
County Council, [1986].
Clifton
Records of the County Lieutenancy, including letters concerning the formation of a cadet corps
at Clifton College, 1875 (L/C/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Great Badminton
Records of the Beaufort family of Badminton and the Berkeley family of Stoke Gifford, including
papers relating to lieutenancy commissions (D2700, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Local history and antiquarian records
This section includes works on local history, guides and histories, and collections of
antiquarians and local historians. Many of these collections include original documents such as
deeds, wills and apprenticeship indentures.
The main collections of material are listed here, but researchers should check the individual
parish entries in the ‘Places’ section of this guide for detailed references for the parishes in
which they are interested. References to material in the Gloucestershire Collection of local
history sources at Gloucestershire Archives have also been included in the ‘Places’ section of
this guide.
Records of Dr O Griffiths of Gloucestershire, historian, relating to Almondsbury, Alveston, Aust,
Elberton, Falfield, Hawkesbury, Old Sodbury, Olveston and Tytherington, (D2197,
Records of Miss M Bruton of Oldbury-on-Severn, local historian, relating to Alveston, Oldburyon-Severn and Thornbury (D4764, Gloucestershire Archives)
H T Ellacombe Collection, including manuscripts and printed sources relating to Bitton, Hanham
Abbots, Kingswood and Oldland, 1512-1896 (7380-7396, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of P Couzens of Sodbury, local historian, relating to Chipping Sodbury, Little Sodbury,
Old Sodbury and Yate (D6822, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of E Lovell of Hanham, mainly concerning Bristol area,19th and early 20th century (see
G W Braikenridge Collection of manuscripts and cuttings relating to the South Gloucestershire
area (3080, 8379, 9965, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of Irvine Gray, former County Archivist of Gloucestershire, relating to 'Antiquaries of
Gloucestershire and Bristol', published by the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological
Society, 1981 (D4703, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of L D Wingate of Cheltenham, local historian, including diaries of visits to villages and
churches in the South Gloucestershire area, 1927-1937 (D5537, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Manorial records
The manorial system was well-established throughout the country by the time of Domesday
Book. The manor was a unit of land usually held by a lord of the manor as a tenant of the
Crown; the lord would then allow others to occupy part of the manor as tenants.
The main series of records found here relate to the manor courts and the occupation of land: a
tenant would be admitted to the property at a session of the manor court, and this would be
recorded in the court proceedings. The tenant would then be given a copy of the proceedings
as proof of his tenancy, hence the term “copyhold”. The copyhold system was finally abolished
in 1922.
Researchers should also check the ‘Deeds’ and ‘Estate and Family’ sections of this guide, as
related documents are often to be found in collections of those types.
Almondsbury
Cann Lippincott family of Over Court, Almondsbury: deeds and other records of the manors of
Over, Brokenborough, Hempton and Caddibroke, late 18th century-mid 19th century (D10904,
Records of the Chester family concerning the manor of Almondsbury, 1767-1771 (99, 100, 101,
102, 103, 8928, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Manor Court of Bristol, including manor court book, 1509-1663, including the
manors of Gaunts Earthcott and Lea (BCC/J/Leet, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, including manorial records and title deeds relating
to the manor of Tockington, 1681-1751 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Survey of the Manor of Almondsbury, 1536 (11372, Bristol Record Office)
Aust
to the manor of Aust, 1624-1664 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Barton Regis
Records of the Chester family concerning Barton Regis Hundred and Court Leet, 1563-1802
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers relating to the manor of Barton
Regis, 1829 (35447, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Kingswood History Society including copy survey of the manor of Barton Regis with
the hundred of Bristowell, (1553) (D7448, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bitton
Court book of the prebendal manor of Bitton, 1664-1822 (24045, Bristol Record Office)
to the manor of Bitton, 1731-1749 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
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Chipping Sodbury
Court books of the Manors of Old Sodbury and Chipping Sodbury or Sodbury Borough,
1770-1793 and of Chipping Sodbury or Sodbury Borough, 1844-1861 (D247, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Clifton
to the manor of Clifton, 1625 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Coalpit Heath
Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, including maps and plans of Coalpit Heath
Elberton
Cann Lippincott family of Over Court, Almondsbury: precepts for holding court leet, early-mid
19th century (D10904, Gloucestershire Archives)
Henbury
Pamphlet, 1909, concerning letters patent of Edward VI relating to grant of the manors of
Henbury, Stoke Bishop, Sneyd Park, Pen Park and Olveston to Ralph Sadleir (8187, Bristol
Reference Library)
Records of the manors of Westbury-on-Trym and Henbury, including court rolls and compotus,
1437-c.1600 (4984, Bristol Record Office)
to the manor of Elmington, 1559-1574 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, including manorial records relating to Henbury
Hundred, 1436-1821 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Hill
Records of the Jenner-Fust family of Hill, including records of the manor of Hill, 1355-1761
Horfield
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including papers concerning the manor of Horfield
Iron Acton
Records of the Morton Grange Estate, Thornbury, including deeds of property in Iron Acton,
1385-1883; legal papers regarding manor of Iron Acton, 1666-1720 (D4018, Gloucestershire
Archives)
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Subjects
Old Sodbury
Archives)
Perambulation of the boundaries of the manor of Old Sodbury, 1847 (D10631, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Stephens and Hartley families of Little Sodbury, including records of the manor
of Old Sodbury (D871, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldbury-on-Severn
Court rolls of the manor of Oldbury-on-Severn (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Court rolls of the manor of Oldbury-on-Severn, 1698-19th century (D9979, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Olveston
Records of the Cann Lippincott family of Over Court, Almondsbury, including precepts for
holding court leet, early-mid 19th century (D10904, Gloucestershire Archives)
Reference Library)
Siston
Records of Kingswood History Society including copy court book of the manor of Siston,
(1569-1581) (D7448, Gloucestershire Archives)
Stapleton
Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, including manorial records of the manor of
Ridgeway, 1569 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Stoke Bishop
Reference Library)
Thornbury
Court rolls of the manors of Kington and Thornbury (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Court roll of the manor of Thornbury, 1756-1762 (D9753, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Westbury-on-Trym
Reference Library)
Westerleigh
to the manor of Westerleigh, 1625-1746 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, including maps and plans of Westerleigh Colliery,
Wick and Abson
records of the manor of Wick and Abson (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Winterbourne
Cann Lippincott family of Over Court, Almondsbury: deeds and other records of the manor of
Stanshaws, late 18th century-mid 20th century (D10904, Gloucestershire Archives)
to the manor of Sturdon, 1541-1573 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, including maps and plans of Winterbourne
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Maps
This section contains references to maps and plans including inclosure, tithe, estate and parish
maps. Gloucestershire Archives holds the first, second and third edition Ordnance Survey
maps for the historic county of Gloucestershire (dated c.1880, c.1902 and c.1919 respectively),
and subsequent 20th century Ordnance Survey editions for the historic county, mostly dating
between the 1950s and 1970s; coverage is not yet complete but the collection is being added to
whenever possible. Bristol Record Office holds first and second edition Ordnance Survey maps
for Bristol and environs.
Inclosure:
Early in the 18th century a great series of private acts of enclosure of land by landowners, was
passed before the General Inclosure Act of 1845. Inclosure maps were drawn up by surveyors,
appointed by inclosure commissioners, to show the approved re-allotment of the open and
common fields, and waste. The maps depict, in detail, a post-inclosure plan of each parish with
the lines of the new boundary hedges or fences, drains, and roads. Occasionally the boundaries
of the former open fields and commons are also shown.
Inclosure maps often provide the first accurate mapping of an area, and in some cases the first
map of any kind. At least two copies of each map and award were made, one to be held in the
parish and the other enrolled at the Quarter Sessions. Sometimes a third copy was also made
for the local landowner. In many cases the copies for South Gloucestershire parishes are now
with the Bristol Record Office or the Gloucestershire Archives amongst the parish collections,
Quarter Sessions papers, solicitors or estate and family collections.
Tithe:
The 1836 Tithe Act changed tithes from payment in kind to a financial amount based on current
crop prices. To enable these payments to be assessed maps were produced. These large
scale maps and the apportionments (awards) for each plot of land were prepared between 1838
and 1847. Three copies of each map were prepared of which one was deposited with the Tithe
Commissioners (who have a set for the whole country), one with the incumbent of each parish
and one with the Bishop. The diocesan copies of these maps for those parishes in the Bristol
Diocese are in the Bristol Record Office (EP/A/32). They also have some of the parish copies
as well. There are no tithe maps for the Bristol City parishes but there are maps for Clifton and
St Philip and Jacob out parish. A similar collection for the parishes in the Gloucester Diocese
are in the Gloucestershire Archives
Architect's drawings of caretakers' houses for various schools in Gloucestershire 1955-1960
Map of Bristol coalfields and country adjacent, by W Sanders, 1862 (3905, Bristol Reference
Library)
of Bristol extension showing police stations, 1897 (C/CL/P/47, Gloucestershire Archives)
plans of boundary review areas including maps referred to in the Bristol Order 1966; areas
transferred from Gloucestershire to Bristol, 1966 (K180/57, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Acton Turville
Records relating to valuations of land under the Finance Act 1910, including "Domesday"
books, "Forms 37-Land" and working sheet maps 1912-1945 (D2428, Gloucestershire Archives)
Ordnance Survey maps, 6 and 25 inch scale, first, second and third editions, c.1880-c.1919
[coverage not complete] (OS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Almondsbury
Architect's drawings of Almondsbury Motorway Police Station 1965 (D10706, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Cann Lippincott family of Over Court, Almondsbury, including map showing
lands, giving names of occupiers, 1864 (D10904, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Gloucestershire County Council, Planning Department, including:
Research maps and plans of proposed developments, c.1943-1950 (C/AP/P, Gloucestershire
Archives)
John J de Wilstar's book of surveys, including Gaunts Earthcott, 1742 (04480, Bristol Record
Office)
Map of Almondsbury and Compton Greenfield (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including map of
including:
Maps and plans relating to the manors of Tockington and Hempton and Patchway,
Maps and plans relating to Tockington and Marsh Common, Almondsbury, 1825 and 1838
Maps and surveys relating to property in The Lea and Gaunts Earthcott, 17th -20th centuries
Act for inclosing the Salt Marsh, Marsh Common, 1814 (32395, Bristol Record Office)
Inclosure acts, maps and plans relating to Almondsbury, 1801, 1814 (31965, Bristol Record
Office)
Maps and plans of Almondsbury development c.1949-50 (C/AP/P/4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including proposed shopping centre Severndale at
Catbrain, Almondsbury, 1970 (K180/68, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Surveyor's Department of Gloucestershire County Council, Highways and
Bridges, including:
Maps and plans of highway improvement at Pilning Vicarage to B4064 Redwick-Cribbs
Causeway, 1950 (C/AH/P/40, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Third edition Ordnance Survey maps of Tockington and Rudgeway, 1923 (35192, Bristol
Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Almondsbury (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Alveston
Map of Alveston (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Map of Alveston, 19th century (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including map of Alveston
including map of Alveston, 1809, 1840 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Thurstons and Setchell of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including estate
plan of Alveston, 1794 (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Third edition Ordnance Survey maps of Alveston and Rudgeway, 1923 (35192, Bristol Record
Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Alveston (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Aust
Map of Aust (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Map of Elberton and Aust including names of landowners; fields numbered, 1891 (D10146,
including:
Maps and plans relating to Aust, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and surveys relating to property in Aust, 17th -20th centuries (32395, Bristol Record
Office)
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Subjects
Avonmouth
Ordnance Survey maps, 6 and 25 inch scale, first and second editions, c.1880-c.1902
Bitton
Architect's drawings of Bitton Secondary Modern School for Girls (now Sir Bernard Lovell
School), 1954-1955 (D10706, Gloucestershire Archives)
Map of Bitton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including maps and plans relating to Bitton, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including map showing land for coal working in Bitton,
Tithe map and apportionment for Bitton (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Bristol
including maps and plans relating to the Bristol coalfields and the Cave family (31965, Bristol
Record Office)
Archives)
137
Subjects
Archives)
Charfield
Chipping Sodbury
Gloucestershire County Council, Planning Department: research maps and plans of proposed
developments, c.1943-1950 (C/AP/P, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Clifton
138
Subjects
Map of Clifton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including maps of the manor of Clifton (SMV/6/5,
Tithe map and apportionment for Clifton (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Ordnance Survey maps, 6 and 25 inch scale, first edition, c.1880 [coverage not complete] (OS,
Coalpit Heath
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including Coalpit Heath and Westerleigh electoral
wards, c.1968 (K180/66, Gloucestershire Archives)
Cold Ashton
Map of Cold Ashton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Cold Ashton (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Compton Greenfield
including:
Maps and plans relating to Compton Greenfield (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and plans relating to the manor of Compton Greenfield, 1825 (37959, Bristol Record
Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Compton Greenfield (see person and place indexes in
Cromhall
including:
Maps and plans relating to Cromhall (31965, Bristol Record Office)
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Subjects
Maps of Cromhall, Cromhall Abbots and Cromhall Lygon, 1838 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Ordnance Survey maps, 6 and 25 inch scale, first, second and third editions, c.1880-c.1919,
and 1:2500 scale, 1960s-1970s [coverage not complete] (OS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dodington
Map of Dodington (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Dodington (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Downend
Doynton
Tithe map and apportionment for Doynton (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Dyrham and Hinton
John J de Wilstar's book of surveys, including Hinton, 1763 (04480, Bristol Record Office)
Map of Dyrham and Hinton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including:
Maps and plans relating to Dyrham and Hinton, 1800 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and plans relating to Hinton, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Dyrham (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
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Subjects
Elberton
Cann Lippincott family of Over Court, Almondsbury: map showing lands, giving names of
occupiers, 1864 (D10904, Gloucestershire Archives)
Map of Elberton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including maps and plans relating to Elberton, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Third edition Ordnance Survey maps of Elberton, 1923 (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Elberton (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Falfield
and 1:2500 scale, 1970s [coverage not complete] (OS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Filton
John J de Wilstar's book of surveys, including Filton, 1742 (04480, Bristol Record Office)
Map of Filton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including maps and plans relating to Filton, including map of Filton, 1920 (31965, Bristol Record
Office)
Archives)
Archives)
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including Filton ward boundaries, 1950 (K180/6,
Records of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including map of the Filton bypass, undated
141
Subjects
(SMV/6/4/9/7, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Filton (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Fishponds
Frampton Cotterell
including maps and plans relating to Frampton Cotterell, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record
Office)
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including Frampton Cotterell electoral wards,
Third edition Ordnance Survey maps of Frampton Cotterell, 1923 (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Frampton Cotterell (see person and place indexes in
Frenchay
Tithe map and apportionment for Frenchay (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Great Badminton
Ordnance Survey maps, 6 and 25 inch scale, second and third editions, c.1902-c.1919
Hanham Abbots
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Subjects
Northavon District Council: Longwell Green Development Area map (pre-land use), mid 1980s
(DC110, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Surveyor's Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including
Maps and plans of highways and bridges, including proposed alterations to KingswoodHanham Road B4046 [undated] (C/AH/P37, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tithe map and apportionment for Hanham (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Hawkesbury
of Hawkesbury [undated] (C/CL/P/18, Gloucestershire Archives)
and 1:2500 scale, 1970s and 1990s [coverage not complete] (OS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Henbury
Isaac Taylor's maps of Kings Weston, Lawrence Weston and Stowick, 1773 (29351, Bristol
Record Office)
John J de Wilstar's book of surveys, including Stowick, 1742 (04480, Bristol Record Office)
Map of Charlton in Henbury (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Map of estates of Edward Southwell at Kings Weston by Isaac Taylor, 1772 (26570, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of Anthony Edmond's and Christopher Cole's Charities, including map of the Kings
Weston estate at Lawrence Weston (35749, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Anthony Edmond's and Christopher Cole's Charities, including map showing
Severn House (35749, Bristol Record Office)
including:
Maps and plans relating to Henbury, 1840, and Charlton, 1841 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and plans relating to Kings Weston and the Kingsweston Estate, Crooks Marsh,
Chittening, Stowick and Henbury (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and surveys relating to property in Henbury, 17th -20th centuries (32395, Bristol
Record Office)
Maps of Crooks Marsh, Stowick,1799, Marsh Common, 1815, Henbury, 1825 and 1840, and
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Subjects
Charlton, 1841 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps of Henbury School area, Kings Weston House area, Kings Weston and Lawrence
Weston, Redwick and Northwick, and Stowick (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Reprint of a map of Henbury parish from the Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer, 1883
(6413, Bristol Reference Library)
Tithe map and apportionment for Henbury (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Hill
Inclosure award relating to Hill, 1867 (Q/RI/80, Gloucestershire Archives)
Horfield
Map of Horfield (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including:
Map of Horfield, 1841-1843 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and plans relating to Bishop Monk's Estate, 1886 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and plans relating to Horfield (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Large maps Bristol with Horfield and St George coloured and Poor Law Unions and Urban
Tithe map and apportionment for Horfield (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Tracing of map of Horfield, 1834 (44143, Bristol Record Office)
Horton
144
Subjects
including:
Map of Horton, 1839 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and plans relating to Horton, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Inclosure award relating to Horton, 1815 (Q/RI/81, Gloucestershire Archives)
Iron Acton
Map of Iron Acton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including maps and plans relating to Iron Acton and Latteridge, undated (31965, Bristol Record
Office)
Third edition Ordnance Survey maps of Iron Acton, 1923 (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Iron Acton (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Inclosure award relating to Iron Acton, 1780 (Q/RI/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Kingswood
Architect's drawings of Kingswood Police Station 1963 (D10706, Gloucestershire Archives)
John J de Wilstar's book of surveys, including Kingswood Forest, 1610, and Kingswood Chase,
1672 (04480, Bristol Record Office)
Kingswood Common Inclosure Map, 1781 (6905, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including Kingsfield Urban District, 1967 (K180/64,
Bridges, including:
Maps and plans of proposed alterations to Kingswood-Hanham Road B4046 [undated]
(C/AH/P37, Gloucestershire Archives)
Little Sodbury
145
Subjects
Map of Littleton-upon-Severn (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including map of Littletonupon-Severn (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
including maps and plans relating to Littleton-upon-Severn, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record
Office)
Mangotsfield
Map of Mangotsfield (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including maps and plans of property in Mangotsfield relating to the Cave family (31965, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including map of Mangotsfield showing Green Dragon
Grounds, 1734-1737 (D421, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including Kingsfield Urban District, 1967 (K180/64,
Bridges, including:
Plan of 15-17 St James Place, Mangotsfield [undated] (C/AH/P47, Gloucestershire Archives)
146
Subjects
Tithe map and apportionment for Mangotsfield (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Marshfield
Map of Marshfield (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Marshfield (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Inclosure award relating to Marshfield, 1852 (Q/RI/97, Gloucestershire Archives)
Old Sodbury
Oldbury-on-Severn
Records of Crossman and Thurston of Thornbury, solicitors, including map of land in Oldburyon-Severn,1834 (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps and plans of Oldbury-on-Severn nuclear power station, c.1960 (C/AP/P/2,
147
Subjects
Oldland
Tithe map and apportionment for Oldland (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Olveston
Gloucestershire County Council, Planning Department: research maps and plans of proposed
developments, c.1943-1950 (C/AP/P, Gloucestershire Archives)
Map of Olveston (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including:
Map of land in Olveston, undated (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and plans relating to Olveston, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and surveys relating to property in Olveston, 17th -20th centuries (32395, Bristol
Record Office)
Maps and plans of Olveston area development, c.1949-50 (C/AP/P/5, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Third edition Ordnance Survey maps of Olveston, 1923 (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Olveston (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Inclosure award relating to Olveston, 1844 (Q/RI/111, Gloucestershire Archives)
Patchway
148
Subjects
John J de Wilstar's book of surveys, including Northwick, 1742 (04480, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including records of Anthony Edmond's and
Christopher Cole's Charities (35749, Bristol Record Office)
including maps and plans relating to Pilning, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Large maps [undated] of Severn Beach proposed parish (C/CL/P/23, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Bridges, including:
Pucklechurch
Map of Pucklechurch (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Pucklechurch (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Rangeworthy
including maps and plans relating to the manor of Rangeworthy, 1811 (37959, Bristol Record
Office)
Redland
Rockhampton
Records of Crossman and Thurston of Thornbury, solicitors, including map of Rockhampton,
Records of the Jenner-Fust family of Hill, including map of Rockhampton (D908,
149
Subjects
Inclosure award relating to Rockhampton, 1839 (Q/RI/118, Gloucestershire Archives)
St George, Bristol
Map of St George (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for St George (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Map of St Philip and St Jacob (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for St Philip and St Jacob outparish (see person and place
Shirehampton
Isaac Taylor's map of Shirehampton, 1773 (29351, Bristol Record Office)
Map of Shirehampton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including maps and plans relating to Shirehampton, including maps, 1936 and 1938 (31965,
Tithe map and apportionment for Shirehampton (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Siston
John J de Wilstar's book of surveys, including Heath Park 1742 (04480, Bristol Record Office)
Map of Siston (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including maps and plans relating to Siston, including map, 1839 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Siston (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
150
Subjects
Soundwell
Southmead
Stapleton
Map of Stapleton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Winterbourne to Bristol; Stoke Park Colony to Stoke Gifford (C/CL/P/7, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including maps of the Stapleton Estate, 1858
and 1934 (SMV/5/1/8/9, SMV/6/4/8/3, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Stapleton (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Inclosure award relating to Stapleton, 1781 (Q/RI/134, Gloucestershire Archives)
Stoke Bishop
including maps of Westbury-on-Trym and the Stoke House Estate, undated (31965, Bristol
Record Office)
Stoke Gifford
Map of Stoke Gifford (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Records of the Surveyor's Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including:
Maps and plans of highways and bridges, including the B4057, Gipsy Patch Lane, GWR
151
Subjects
bridge to Winterbourne [undated] (C/AH/P14, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tithe map and apportionment for Stoke Gifford (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Thornbury
including:
Maps and plans relating to Oldbury Naite and Thornbury, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record
Office)
Maps and plans relating to Thornbury, including map, 1840 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and plans of boundary review areas including bus services and routes in Thornbury
area, 1965 (K180/42, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury tithe map, 1840 (D11494, Gloucestershire Archives)
Inclosure award relating to Thornbury, 1836 (Q/RI/142, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tormarton
Map of Tormarton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Map of West Littleton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for West Littleton (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Ordnance Survey maps, 6 inch scale, first, second and third editions, c.1880-c.1919 [coverage
not complete] (OS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tortworth
152
Subjects
Archives)
Tytherington
Records of Crossman and Thurston of Thornbury, solicitors, including map of Tytherington,
including maps and plans relating to Tytherington, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Third edition Ordnance Survey maps of Itchington and Tytherington, 1923 (35192, Bristol
Record Office)
Map of Codrington (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Map of Wapley (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Wapley and Codrington (see person and place indexes in
Warmley
Large maps [undated] of Warmley Rural District Council (C/CL/P/29, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Bridges, including:
Maps and plans of the Lamb Inn, Warmley, 1957 (C/AH/P50, Gloucestershire Archives)
Westbury-on-Trym
Map of Westbury-on-Trym (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
153
Subjects
including:
Map of Westbury-on-Trym, 1825 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and plans relating to Westbury-on-Trym, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Maps of Westbury-on-Trym and the Stoke House Estate, undated (31965, Bristol Record
Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Westbury-on-Trym (see person and place indexes in
Westerleigh
Map of Westerleigh (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including:
Maps and plans relating to Westerleigh, including map, 1845 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and surveys relating to property in Westerleigh, 17th -20th centuries (32395, Bristol
Record Office)
Bridges, including:
Maps and plans of Mayshill, Westerleigh, A432 alterations to 291 Badminton Road, 1960 (C/
AH/P44, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tithe map and apportionment for Westerleigh (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Wick and Abson
Map of Wick and Abson (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Wick and Abson (see person and place indexes in
154
Subjects
Wickwar
Archives)
Winterbourne
John J de Wilstar's book of surveys, including Winterbourne, 1737 (04480, Bristol Record
Office)
Map of Winterbourne and Frenchay (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including:
Maps and plans relating to Winterbourne, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and surveys relating to property in Sturdon and Winterbourne, 17th -20th centuries
Archives)
Tithe map and apportionment for Winterbourne (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Inclosure award relating to Winterbourne, 1831 (Q/RI/161, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne Down
Yate
155
Subjects
Map of Yate (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including maps and plans relating to Yate, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Maps and plans prepared for development of Yate, c.1945-1950 (C/AP/P/1, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, including maps and plans of Yate Colliery,
Tithe map and apportionment for Yate (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Inclosure award relating to Yate, 1844 (Q/RI/164, Gloucestershire Archives)
156
Subjects
Military and wartime
This section includes references to militia forces and the regular army, civil defence, and both
World Wars. Researchers interested in military history in Gloucestershire should consult
Gloucestershire Archives’ Handlist of Military Records for more detailed references to military
subjects in the records held at Gloucestershire Archives.
Records of the Civil Defence Committee of Gloucestershire County Council, 1930s-1940s
(C/CDa/V, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the County Clerk's Department of Gloucestershire County Council concerning Civil
Defence including:
Air Raid Warning Posts, training and history, 1938-1945 (C/ACDa1-3, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Schemes, organisation recruitment, trainingand premises, 1938-1959 (C/ACDb,
Acton Turville
Records of the Education Department of Gloucestershire County Council including:
Registers of evacuated children and returns from schools of children evacuated to
Gloucestershire, including Acton Turville, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Survey and valuation of arms, Badminton estate, Acton Turville, c.1800, (uncatalogued)
Almondsbury
Account of militia manoeuvres from Almondsbury to Gloucester and Westbury, (1759) (TRS9,
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including papers concerning occupation of
Woodhouse, Almondsbury, by Bristol Aeroplane Company, 1942 (D4365, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Almondsbury, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Alveston
Gloucestershire, including Alveston, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
157
Subjects
Aust
Olveston and Aust parishes: the war period 1939-45, by Eric V Garrett (MI/37, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Photograph of Ambulance unit outside Aust School with young men in military uniform,
c.1914-1918 (D4764, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bitton
Minutes of a meeting of the inhabitants of Bitton concerning subscriptions for defence against
the French, with a list of subscribers, 1798 (D123, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Bitton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol
Records of the Civil Defence Committee of Gloucestershire County Council including air raids
on Bristol and Filton, 1940-44 (C/CDa/V4/7-16, Gloucestershire Archives)
Defence including the Bristol Blitz, 1940-1941 (C/ACDa4/2-5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Charfield
Baptism register including details of former occupation and present military service, 1914-1918
(P74, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Charfield, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Warrants for the relief of the wives and families of militiamen, etc, 1797-1800 (P74,
Chipping Sodbury
Bailiff's accounts, Chipping Sodbury, including payments to the Royal forces at the Siege of
Gloucester, 1641-1643 (D2071, Gloucestershire Archives)
Blitz-Bits: memoirs of a county fireman at Chipping Sodbury in the Second World War, by R
Ford, 1972 (CMS/72, Gloucestershire Archives)
List of volunteers and militiamen in Chipping Sodbury, 1804 (D2071, Gloucestershire Archives)
Newscuttings relating to Chipping Sodbury War Memorial Hospital, 1939-1981 (D6822,
Papers concerning John Russell of Chipping Sodbury [Dodington Troop], 1935 (D4920,
Photograph of celebrations, [South African War],c.1902 (GPS/300/15, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Photographs of 494 Royal Army Service Corps at Chipping Sodbury, 1916 (D6822,
158
Subjects
Records of the Civil Defence Committee of Gloucestershire County Council including:
Directories of air raid precautions schemes including Sodbury Rural District, (Gloucestershire
Div 4), Kingswood, Mangotsfield and Warmley Urban Districts (area II), 1939-43
(C/CDa/V/11/10, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning billeting and evacuation, Sodbury Rural District, 1939-41 (C/CDa/V/5/31,
Gloucestershire, including Chipping Sodbury, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Summons to George Drayton of Chipping Sodbury to serve as a militiaman, 1808 (Q/SR/1808/
A, Gloucestershire Archives)
Warrant to petty constables of North Nibley to summon the parish’s contingent for the trained
bands to appear near Chipping Sodbury, 1642 (D7115, Gloucestershire Archives)
Clifton
Photograph of Indian Army Bandsmen visiting Clifton College, 1921 (GPS/613/30,
Postcard, unveiling of Clifton College war memorial,1904 (GPS/60/6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Cold Ashton
Gloucestershire, including Cold Ashton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Cromhall
Gloucestershire, including Cromhall, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wartime service of villagers, c.1939-1945 (P104 MI 4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dodington
Congratulations from Captain Codrington to the Dodington and Marshfield Troop, 1831 (D1610,
Dodington Cavalry Troop at Cheltenham Barracks, 1890 (D5571, Gloucestershire Archives)
List of voluntary contributions from the inhabitants of Dodington and Marshfield towards
defence, 1798 (D1610, Gloucestershire Archives)
Portrait of Captain Sir William Codrington and Lady Georgina at Dodington, c.1840 (MI/21,
Gloucestershire, including Dodington, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
159
Subjects
Records of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, including papers concerning John Russell of
Chipping Sodbury [Dodington Troop], 1935 (D4920, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, including photograph of Dodington Squadron on
horseback, 1869 (D4920, Gloucestershire Archives)
Testimonial from the Dodington Squadron on the death of C. William Codrington, 1864 (D1610,
The returns of muster rolls of the Royal Gloucestershire Yeoman cavalry and the Dodington and
Marshfield Troop, 1830-96 (D1610, Gloucestershire Archives)
Doynton
Bills for dinner, uniforms, etc. of the Dyrham, Hinton and Doynton Volunteers, 1803-1805
Correspondence concerning evacuation of Pro Patria Day Nursery, Islington (London), to
Doynton Rectory, (1939)-1958 (C/CE/C/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Doynton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dyrham and Hinton
Dyrham Park, (1939)-1958 (C/CE/C/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Letters to Rev W E Blathwayt from parishioners in Hinton and Dyrham on active service, chiefly
in France, but also in Salonika, Palestine and Egypt, 1914-1918 (D1799, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Dyrham and Hinton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Falfield
Gloucestershire, including Falfield, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Filton
Air raids on Bristol and Filton, 1940-1944 (C/CDa/V4/7-16, Gloucestershire Archives)
Air raid precautions wardens' post at Charborough Road School, Filton, c. 1939-40
(C/CDa/P/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
160
Subjects
Gloucestershire, including Filton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Frampton Cotterell
Gloucestershire, including Frampton Cotterell, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Great Badminton
Letters with references to James II's visit to Badminton, Bristol and Bridgewater after the
rebellion, 1686, and to military action in Europe,1685-1686 (D1799, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Great Badminton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, including papers, photographs and memorabilia
relating to camp at Badminton (D4920, Gloucestershire Archives)
Souvenir Programme: The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars 1834-1984. To mark 150th
anniversary celebration at Badminton, 1984 (MI/38, Gloucestershire Archives)
Voluntary payments towards defence [Great Badminton], 1798 (P32, Gloucestershire Archives)
Hanham Abbots
Minutes of the Mount Memorial Sub-Committee, with details of the dedication ceremony, 1951
(DA8, Gloucestershire Archives)
Minutes of War Distress Fund, Kingswood and Hanham, 1942-1948 (DA8, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Hanham Abbots, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Hawkesbury
Justices’ order to maintain militiamen’s families, 1794-1800 (P170, Gloucestershire Archives)
Notice of a bounty given to a man to serve for the parish in His Majesty’s Navy, 1795 (P170,
Order to close St. Mary's Church, 1942 (P170, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Hawkesbury, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Horfield
Records of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, including photographs relating to training at
161
Subjects
Horfield Barracks, 1900 (D4920, Gloucestershire Archives)
Horton
Gloucestershire, including Horton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Iron Acton
Gloucestershire, including Iron Acton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Kingswood
Kingswood Invasion Committee war book, 1942-1944 (D9319, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Records of the Civil Defence Committee of Gloucestershire County Council including directories
of air raid precautions schemes including Sodbury Rural District, (Gloucestershire Div 4),
Kingswood, Mangotsfield and Warmley Urban Districts (area II), 1939-43 (C/CDa/V/11/10,
Papers concerning billeting and evacuation, Kingswood Urban District, 1939-41
Gloucestershire, including Kingswood, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Little Sodbury
Mangotsfield
Air raid precautions trench system for Mangotsfield Urban District Council, c. 1939-40
162
Subjects
Papers concerning billeting and evacuation, Mangotsfield Urban District, 1939-41
Gloucestershire, including Mangotsfield, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Land Agent's Department of Gloucestershire County Council, compiled for
wartime emergency purposes, including:
Inventory and valuation of Staple Hill Probation office c.1942 (C/ASH/R1/10, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Inventory and valuation of Staple Hill Weights and Measures office c.1942 (C/ASH/R1/12,
Marshfield
Gloucestershire, including Marshfield, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Old Sodbury
Gloucestershire, including Old Sodbury, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldbury-on-Severn
Gloucestershire, including Oldbury-on-Severn, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Oldland
Gloucestershire, including Oldland, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
163
Subjects
Records of the Land Agent's Department of Gloucestershire County Council, compiled for
wartime emergency purposes, including:
Inventory and valuation of Oldland Vicarage c.1942 (C/ASH/R1/16, Gloucestershire Archives)
Olveston
Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Olveston, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Patchway
Gloucestershire, including Patchway, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Redwick and Northwick, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Pucklechurch
Gloucestershire, including Pucklechurch, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Rangeworthy
Gloucestershire, including Rangeworthy, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Rockhampton
Gloucestershire, including Rockhampton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
St George, Bristol
Register of air raid wardens and log book for wardens' post L1, St George, 1939-1945 (44240,
164
Subjects
Siston
Gloucestershire, including Siston, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Soundwell
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Soundwell wartime
nursery, 1943 (C/CC/B/280, Gloucestershire Archives)
Stoke Gifford
Gloucestershire, including Stoke Gifford, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury
Records of Crossman and Thurston of Thornbury, solicitors, including records of a soldier in the
US Army, 1893-1913 (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Crossman and Thurston of Thornbury, solicitors, including records of Thornbury
District Military Tribunal, 1915-1917 (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning billeting and evacuation, Thornbury, 1939-41 (C/CDa/V/5/36,
Gloucestershire, including Thornbury, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Thornbury War Tribunal, 1916-1918 (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
and correspondence of the Thornbury detachment of the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the
Gloucestershire Regiment, 1885-1895 (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
of the Thornbury War Tribunal including applications for exemption from military service
Tormarton
Gloucestershire, including Tormarton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tortworth
165
Subjects
Gloucestershire, including Tortworth, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tytherington
Gloucestershire, including Tytherington, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Warmley
Records of the Civil Defence Committee of Gloucestershire County Council including directories
of air raid precautions schemes including Sodbury Rural District, (Gloucestershire Div 4),
Kingswood, Mangotsfield and Warmley Urban Districts (area II), 1939-43 (C/CDa/V/11/10,
Papers concerning billeting and evacuation, Warmley Rural District, 1939-1941
Westerleigh
Gloucestershire, including Westerleigh, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wick and Abson
Gloucestershire, including Wick and Abson, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wickwar
Gloucestershire, including Wickwar, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne
Gloucestershire, including Winterbourne, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Yate
Defence including the Yate raids, 1941 (C/ACDa4/6, Gloucestershire Archives)
166
Subjects
Gloucestershire, including Yate, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
167
Subjects
Newspapers
Gloucestershire newspapers are kept in the Gloucestershire Archives and some report on
South Gloucestershire affairs. Bristol newspapers are kept in Bristol Central Library and they
too report on South Gloucestershire matters.
Copies of newspapers for the Bristol area can be seen on microfilm at Bristol Central Library.
Hard copies are kept of the current newspapers and the originals of the old papers are held at
the Library.
Western Daily Press, 1858 onwards (available at Bristol Central Library)
Avonmouth
Bristol Guardian, 1902 onwards (available at Bristol Central Library)
South Gloucestershire Gazette, 1913 onwards (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol
Bedminster Guardian, 1897-1902 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bonner and Middleton's Bristol Journal, 1774-1794 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol [Penny] Observer, 1859 onwards (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Advertiser, 1855-1859 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Daily Post, 1860-1878 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Echo, 1901-1909 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Evening News, 1877-1920 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Evening Post, 1932 onwards (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Evening Times [and Echo], 1904-1932 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Evening World, 1929-1962 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Express, 1911-1915 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Gazette, 1786-1789, 1819-1872 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Magpie, 1882-1911 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Mercury (daily), 1790-1909 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Mirror, 1808-1864 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Observer, 1819-1823 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Standard, 1839-1842 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Weekly Mercury, 1878-1909 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Felix Farley's Journal, 1752-1775, 1791-1853 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Fenley and Sheppard's Bristol Journal, 1804 (available at Bristol Central Library)
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Sarah Farley's Bristol Journal, 1777-c.1799 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Clifton
Clifton and Redland Free Press, 1890 onwards (available at Bristol Central Library)
Clifton Chronicle and Directory, 1850 onwards (available at Bristol Central Library)
Redland
Shirehampton
Thornbury
Thornbury Gazette, 1955-2010 (D10125, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Nonconformists
The records of nonconformist chapels typically comprise memoranda books (often called church
books), registers of members, minutes of deacons' and elders' meetings, accounts, and records
of chapel-based societies and Sunday Schools. Although many chapels have now deposited
their records, others are known to retain early records, usually in the keeping of the Chapel
Secretary. Guidance on the use of nonconformist records for genealogy may be found in
Gloucestershire Family History, published by Gloucestershire Archives (3rd ed. 1993) (available
at Gloucestershire Archives)
South Gloucestershire has a long tradition of nonconformity; John Wesley and George
Whitefield preached in Kingswood and as a result Methodism was particularly strong in the
area. The Society of Friends was strong in Frenchay, and many other denominations also had
a presence in the area. For a more detailed overview of nonconformity in South
Gloucestershire, see the introduction to this guide.
An index to some nonconformist baptism registers forms part of Gloucestershire Archives’
In this section, material relating to nonconformity in general is listed first, followed by records
relating to specific denominations.
Notes and abstracts relating to religious nonconformity in Gloucestershire (D2052,
Records of Filton Historical Society including gazetteer of nonconformist churches in North
Avon, 1989, with related papers, [1980s-2005] (D10377, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bitton
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including certificates of registration of buildings to
be used as dissenters' meeting houses, Bitton, 1796 (GDR/N2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol
Records of West Gloucestershire Sunday School Union (Interdenominational), including annual
report of Bristol Sunday School Union, with Treasurer's statement, 1933 (D6008,
Chipping Sodbury
be used as dissenters' meeting houses, Chipping Sodbury, 1800 (GDR/N2, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of West Gloucestershire Sunday School Union (Interdenominational), 1862-1933
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Coalpit Heath
Records of West Gloucestershire Sunday School Union (Interdenominational), 1862-1933,
including Hebron chapel, Coalpit Heath (D6008, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dyrham and Hinton
Frampton Cotterell
including Bethel and Zion chapels, Frampton's End (D6008, Gloucestershire Archives)
Horton
be used as dissenters' meeting houses, Horton, 1802 (GDR/N2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Iron Acton
be used as dissenters' meeting houses, Iron Acton, 1799 (GDR/N2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Kingswood
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including applications for registration of
dissenters in Kingswood, 1802 (GDR/N2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Kingswood Moravian Church (MF1254, Gloucestershire Archives)
Little Sodbury
Mangotsfield
including Mangotsfield chapel (D6008, Gloucestershire Archives)
Marshfield
Records of Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions including application for Presbyterian meeting
house, Marshfield, 1753 (Q/SR/1753/C, Gloucestershire Archives)
be used as dissenters' meeting houses, Marshfield, 1802 (GDR/N2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Old Sodbury
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Oldland
be used as dissenters' meeting houses, Oldland, 1796 (GDR/N2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Pucklechurch
including Pucklechurch chapel (D6008, Gloucestershire Archives)
Rangeworthy
including Rangeworthy Congregationalist and Wesleyan chapels (D6008, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Redland
Records of Elmgrove Church, Redland (44635, Bristol Record Office)
Rockhampton
Records of Rockhampton Gospel Hall, 1983-1996 (D8733, Gloucestershire Archives)
St George, Bristol
including White Hill chapel, St George (D6008, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury
be used as dissenters' meeting houses, Thornbury, 1789 (GDR/N2, Gloucestershire Archives)
including Thornbury and Crossways (D6008, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wickwar
be used as dissenters' meeting houses, Wickwar, 1780 (GDR/N2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne
be used as dissenters' meeting houses, Winterbourne, 1796, and Whiteshill [? Winterbourne],
1821 (GDR/N2, Gloucestershire Archives)
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including Watley's End Ebenezer and Wesleyan chapels (D6008, Gloucestershire Archives)
Yate
including Yate chapel (D6008, Gloucestershire Archives)
Nonconformists - Baptist
Chipping Sodbury
Records of Chipping Sodbury Baptist Church, 1708-2002 (D6154, D6717, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Clifton
Records of Victoria Methodist Chapel, Clifton (32397/CI, Bristol Record Office)
Photographs of Bristol Baptist College, Clifton, c.1913-1979 (44318, Bristol Record Office)
Hawkesbury
Records of Hillesley Baptist Church (D2889, Gloucestershire Archives)
Horfield
Records of Horfield Baptist Church (40798, 43868, Bristol Record Office)
St George, Bristol
Records of St George Baptist Church, 1940-1986 (44523, Bristol Record Office)
Stapleton
Records of Stapleton Baptist Chapel, 1995-2005 (44525, Bristol Record Office)
Tytherington
Records of Crossman and Thurston of Thornbury, solicitors, including records of Tytherington
Baptist Chapel (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Codrington Baptist Church (GE166/170a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Nonconformists - Congregational and United Reformed Church
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Report of the Congregational Union of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire concerning the
ministerial education of rural pastors, 1862 (1418, Bristol Reference Library)
Bitton
Bristol District United Reformed Church: papers of the Property Committee concerning property
of numerous churches including Upton Cheyney, 1980s-1991 (D8988, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Bristol
Records of Bridge Street Congregational Church (MF1242, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dyrham and Hinton
Records of Hinton Congregatioanl Church (D4598, Gloucestershire Archives)
Frampton Cotterell
of numerous churches including Frampton Cotterell, 1980s-1991 (D8988, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Frampton Cotterell Zion Ladies' Group (affiliated to Zion United Church), a history of the Ladies'
Group, 2000 (D8869, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Zion Chapel (MF1247, Gloucestershire Archives)
Frenchay
Records of Frenchay Presbyterian Chapel (MF1244, Gloucestershire Archives)
Kingswood
Records of Whitefield Tabernacle, Kingswood (44475 (uncatalogued), Bristol Record Office)
Mangotsfield
of numerous churches including Mangotsfield, 1980s -1991 (D8988, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Staple Hill United Reformed Church (43530, 43544, Bristol Record Office)
Marshfield
of numerous churches including Marshfield, 1980s-1991 (D8988, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Marshfield Congregational Church (D5618, Gloucestershire Archives)
Pucklechurch
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Records of Pucklechurch Congregational Church (D8697, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury
of numerous churches including Thornbury, 1980s-1991 (D8988, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wickwar
Records of Lower Chapel, Wickwar (MF1267, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne
Records of Whiteshill Chapel, Hambrook (MF1257, Gloucestershire Archives)
Nonconformists - Methodist
Records of South Gloucestershire Methodist Circuit (35230, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bristol and South Gloucestershire Methodist Circuit (44609, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bristol Methodist District (39713/20, Bristol Record Office)
Almondsbury
Records of Bristol North Methodist Circuit (34706, Bristol Record Office)
Alveston
Records of the Frome Valley Methodist Circuit, including records of Alveston Down chapel
Bristol
Clifton
Records of Clifton and Redland Methodist Circuit (37979, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Hotwell Road Chapel, Clifton (MF1250, Gloucestershire Archives)
Downend
Records of Bristol Methodist Circuit (36125, Bristol Record Office)
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Records of Downend Chapel (MF1243, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Downend Methodist Circuit (35230, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Frome Valley Methodist Circuit, including records of Mangotsfield, Staple Hill
and Downend chapels (35230, Bristol Record Office)
Filton
Fishponds
Records of Fishponds Methodist Circuit (35230, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Frome Valley Methodist Circuit, including records of Fishponds chapel (35230,
Frampton Cotterell
Records of Frampton Cotterell Methodist Circuit (35230, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Frome Valley Methodist Circuit, including records of Frampton Cotterell chapel
Hanham Abbots
Henbury
Records of Clifton and Redland Methodist Circuit, including Lawrence Weston chapel (37979,
Records of Brentry Methodist Church, Henbury, 1957-2006 (44524, 44609, Bristol Record
Office)
Horfield
Records of Eden Grove Methodist Church, Horfield, 1945-1972 (44609, Bristol Record Office)
Iron Acton
Records of the Frome Valley Methodist Circuit, including records of Iron Acton chapel (35230,
Kingswood
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Records of Bristol and Bath Methodist District (37596, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Kingswood Methodist Circuit (35230, 38541, 40430, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Kingswood United Methodist Circuit (38541, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Kingswood Wesleyan Methodist Circuit (38541, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Frome Valley Methodist Circuit, including records of Kingswood and Soundwell
chapels (35230, Bristol Record Office)
S Pattison's poem concerning George Whitefield's work in Kingswood, 1799 (5054, Bristol
Reference Library)
Mangotsfield
Records of Bristol and Bath Methodist District, including Staple Hill chapel (37596, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of Staple Hill Methodist Circuit (35230, Bristol Record Office)
Olveston
Records of Beach Road Chapel, Severn Beach (D3569, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Bristol North Methodist Circuit relating to Severn Beach (34706, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of Clifton Methodist Circuit relating to Redwick (32397, Bristol Record Office)
Rangeworthy
Records of the Frome Valley Methodist Circuit, including records of Rangeworthy chapel
Redland
St George, Bristol
Records of Bristol and Bath Methodist District (37596, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Crews Hole Road Chapel (40081, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Redfield Chapel (MF1246, Gloucestershire Archives)
Shirehampton
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Stapleton
Records of Stapleton Methodist Church, 1898-2008 (39361/173, 43793, Bristol Record Office)
Thornbury
Records of Frome Valley Methodist Circuit (38393, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Frome Valley Methodist Circuit, including records of Thornbury chapel (35230,
Westbury-on-Trym
Records of Westbury-on-Trym Methodist Church (MF1243, MF1253, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne
Records of the Frome Valley Methodist Circuit, including records of Winterbourne and Watley's
End chapels (35230, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Winterbourne Methodist Circuit (35230, Bristol Record Office)
Yate
Records of the Frome Valley Methodist Circuit, including records of Yate chapel (35230, Bristol
Record Office)
Nonconformists - Society of Friends
Bristol
Records of Bristol and Frenchay Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1744-1991 (43328,
42135, SF, Bristol Record Office)
Frenchay
Henbury
Records of Osborne, Ward, Vassall, Abbott and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including plans of the
Friends' Meeting House, Lawrence Weston, 19th century, from the Player family (12161, Bristol
Record Office)
178
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Parish Councils
Parish Councils and Meetings were established by the Local Government Act 1894 to perform
the civil duties still the responsibility of Anglican vestries. Councils were set up for every parish
in a Rural District with a population of more than 300 and for those parishes with a population of
more than 200 where the electors so wished. Parish Meetings are held at least twice a year in
other parishes.
The main series of records are minutes and accounts, but other classes of material illustrating
the wide interests of some larger Councils have been deposited. This section also includes
papers from the archives of Gloucestershire County Council relating to individual Parish
Councils.
Almondsbury
Correspondence and papers concerning acquisition of land by parish councils for burial
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Almondsbury, 1935-1945
(C/AC/C6/5/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Aust
Records of Aust Parish Council, 1894-2000 (P28a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bitton
Records of Bitton Parish Council, 1845-2005 (P48a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Charfield
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Charfield, 1935-1945
Records of Charfield Parish Council, 1894-2001 (P74a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Chipping Sodbury
Records of Sodbury Parish Council, 1894-1997 (P300a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Frenchay
Winterbourne Parish Council's copy of bylaws relating to Frenchay and Whiteshill Commons,
1898; correspondence, 1924 (C/CC/D/1/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Hanham Abbots
179
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Hawkesbury
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Hawkesbury, 1935-1945
Henbury
Records of Henbury Parish Council (1579, Bristol Record Office)
Little Sodbury
Records of Littleton-upon-Severn Parish Council, 1894-1934 (P202a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Mangotsfield
Records of Mangotsfield Parish Council (P212a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Marshfield
Records of Marshfield Parish Council, 1625-2002 (P213a, Gloucestershire Archives)
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Marshfield, 1935-1945 (C/AC/
C6/5/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Old Sodbury
Oldbury-on-Severn
Records of Oldbury-on-Severn Parish Council, 1894-2007 (P237a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldland
Records of Bitton Parish Council (P48a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Oldland Parish Council (P238a, Gloucestershire Archives)
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grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Redwick and Northwick,
1935-1945 (C/AC/C6/5/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Pucklechurch
Correspondence and papers concerning acquisition of land by parish council for recreation in
Pucklechurch, 1934-1936 (C/AC/C6/5/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Pucklechurch, 1935-1945
Rangeworthy
Records of Rangeworthy Parish Council, 1894-2002 (P264a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Rockhampton
Records of Rockhampton Parish Council, 1927-2000 (P271a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Shirehampton
Records of Shirehampton Parish Meeting and Parish Council (05041, 05042, Bristol Record
Office)
Stoke Gifford
Records of Stoke Gifford Parish Council (35232, 41366, 43691, 43974, Bristol Record Office)
Thornbury
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Thornbury, 1935-1945 (C/AC/
C6/5/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Thornbury Parish Council (P330a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tormarton
Records of Tormarton Parish Council (40740, Bristol Record Office)
Tytherington
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Tytherington, 1935-1945
181
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Westerleigh
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Westerleigh, 1935-1945
Records of Westerleigh Parish Council, 1894-1994 (P357a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wick and Abson
Records of Wick and Abson Parish Council (P401a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wickwar
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Wickwar, 1935-1945
Records of Wickwar Parish Council, 1628-1988 (P366a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Winterbourne, 1935-1945 (C/
AC/C6/5/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne Parish Council's copy of bylaws relating to Frenchay and Whiteshill Commons,
Yate
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Yate, 1935-1945
182
Subjects
Parish records
In addition to keeping records of their own administration and property, the Church of England
parishes preserved material relating to the wide range of civil functions which they developed
from the 16th century onwards, principally the operation of the poor laws and the maintenance
of the highways. As the only generally available place of secure storage in rural areas, parish
chests became repositories for many other types of record, such as those of local schools. Acts
of Parliament required that copies of tithe and inclosure awards should be deposited in them. It
is therefore not surprising that parish collections are extremely varied; an introduction to the
main classes of records will be found in W E Tate, The Parish Chest (Cambridge University
Press, 3rd edition, 1969). Published lists of the principal records for each parish in
Gloucestershire were made by I Gray and E Ralph, Guide to the parish records of the city of
Bristol and the county of Gloucester (Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1963),
although these have now been superseded by the reports of inspections carried out under the
provisions of the Parochial Registers and Records Measure 1978. Guidance for genealogists
on the use of parish records and other genealogical sources is available in several
Gloucestershire Archives publications, especially Gloucestershire Family History (3rd edition,
1993), and the Handlist of Genealogical Records which provides full details of the coverage of
all parish registers and transcripts held in the Gloucestershire Record Office up to 2002. (These
books are all available at Gloucestershire Archives)
Following the Local Government Act 1894 which established parish councils and meetings, the
ownership of records of civil administration formerly undertaken by ecclesiastical parishes was
transferred to the new councils. As in the main there was no physical separation of the civil and
ecclesiastical records, however, and as the civil records in question were created by officers of
the ecclesiastical parishes, these records have been included in the lists below, and only
records of civil parish administration after 1894 have been listed under Parish Councils.
Parish archives typically include registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, records relating to
the property and income of the parish, papers of the incumbents, and records of the various
other functions which were the responsibility of the parish, including poor relief, inclosure, tithe,
church societies and church schools. An index to the records of the overseers of the poor held
within parish collections at Gloucestershire Archives forms part of Gloucestershire Archives’
Acton Turville
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Acton Turville (P4,
Almondsbury
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Almondsbury from
1653 (P/ALM, Bristol Record Office)
Alveston
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Alveston from 1742
(P/Alv, Bristol Record Office)
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Record Office)
Aust
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Aust (P/Au, Bristol
Record Office)
Bitton
Lists of parish officers for Bitton, from 1652 (D1635, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Bitton (P/B, Bristol
Record Office)
Parish records of Bitton including map of glebe, 1821 (40226, Bristol Record Office)
Record Office)
Charfield
Parish papers including glebe terrier, 1721, bills and accounts for building poor house,
1784-1785, and for repairing bells, 1779 (D2462, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Charfield (P74,
Chipping Sodbury
National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS): record of the church
furnishings at St John the Baptist Church, Chipping Sodbury, 2000 (D8860, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Chipping Sodbury
Transcript of survey of parish, (1795) (D2790, Gloucestershire Archives)
Clifton
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Emmanuel, Clifton,
from 1869 (P/EC, Bristol Record Office)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Holy Trinity, Clifton
(P/HTC, Bristol Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for St Andrew the Less,
Clifton, from 1751 (P/StALC, Bristol Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for St John the
Evangelist, Clifton, from 1841 (P/StJC, Bristol Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for St Paul, Clifton, from
1859 (P/StPC, Bristol Record Office )
Record Office)
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Coalpit Heath
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Coalpit Heath from
1845 (P/CH, Bristol Record Office)
Cold Ashton
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Cold Ashton (P23,
Compton Greenfield
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Compton Greenfield
from 1583 (P/CG, Bristol Record Office)
Cromhall
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Cromhall (P104,
Dodington
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Dodington from 1574
(P/D, Bristol Record Office)
Downend
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Downend (P/DO,
Doynton
Copy of parish map of Doynton, (1839), showing glebe lands, 1872 (D2894, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Doynton from 1566
(P/Dn, Bristol Record Office)
Record Office)
Dyrham and Hinton
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Dyrham from 1568 (P/
185
Subjects
Dy, Bristol Record Office)
Record Office)
Elberton
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Elberton from 1558
(P/E, Bristol Record Office)
Record Office)
Falfield
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Falfield (P142,
Filton
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Filton from 1654;
rectory records, 1580-1962 (P/FC, Bristol Record Office)
Record Office)
Frampton Cotterell
furnishings at Frampton Cotterell Church, 2003-2005 (43248, Bristol Record Office)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Frampton Cotterell (P/
FC, Bristol Record Office)
Frenchay
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Frenchay from 1892
(P/Fr, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe maps and apportionments for Frenchay and Winterbourne (see person and place indexes
Great Badminton
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Great Badminton
Hanham Abbots
Overseers' accounts, 1832-1836 (D6127, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Hanham (P/H, Bristol
186
Subjects
Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Hanham Abbots from
1844 (P/HA, Bristol Record Office )
Record Office)
Hawkesbury
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Alderley and Tresham
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Hawkesbury (P170,
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Hillesley (P178,
Henbury
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Hallen from 1931
(P/StJH, Bristol Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Henbury (P/Hen,
Bristol Record Office )
Record Office)
Hill
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Hill (P177,
Horfield
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Horfield (P/StGH,
Tithe map and apportionment for Horfield (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Horton
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Horton (P182,
Iron Acton
furnishings at Iron Acton Church, 2001-2002 (42290, EP/Soc2/12, Bristol Record Office)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Iron Acton (P/IA,
Tithe map and apportionment for Iron Acton (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
187
Subjects
Kingswood
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Kingswood from 1821
(P/K, Bristol Record Office)
Little Sodbury
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Little Sodbury (P301,
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Littleton-upon-Severn
from 1701 (P/LS, Bristol Record Office)
Mangotsfield
Petition for faculty for repair of parish church, 1812 (D1349, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including papers concerning tithes, 1704-1719 (D421,
Tithe map and apportionment for Mangotsfield (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Mangotsfield (P/M,
Marshfield
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Marshfield (P213,
Tithe map and apportionment for Marshfield (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Old Sodbury
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Old Sodbury (P302,
Oldbury-on-Severn
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Oldbury-on-Severn
Oldland
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Longwell Green from
1905 (P/LG, Bristol Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Oldland from 1861 (P/
188
Subjects
Old, Bristol Record Office )
Tithe map and apportionment for Oldland (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Olveston
furnishings at Olveston Church (41184, EP/Soc2/3, Bristol Record Office)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Olveston (P/Ov,
Tithe map and apportionment for Olveston (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Pilning (P/Pil, Bristol
Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Redwick from 1667
(P/North, Bristol Record Office )
Pucklechurch
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Pucklechurch from
1590 (P/Puc, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Pucklechurch (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Rangeworthy
furnishings at Holy Trinity Church, Rangeworthy, 2004 (D8860, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Rangeworthy (P264,
Redland
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Redland from 1740
(P/RG, Bristol Record Office)
Rockhampton
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Rockhampton (P271,
St George, Bristol
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for St George from 1756
(P/StG, 40032, 28975, Bristol Record Office )
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Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for St Michael, Two Mile
Hill (P/StM:T, Bristol Record Office)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Two Mile Hill, St
George, from 1848 (P/StMiT, Bristol Record Office )
Tithe map and apportionment for St George (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for St Philip and St Jacob
without (P/HT, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for St Philip and St Jacob outparish (see person and place
Shirehampton
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Shirehampton from
1681 (P/StMS, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Shirehampton (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Siston
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Siston from 1570 (P/
S, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Siston (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
Soundwell
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Soundwell from 1904
(P/StSSL, Bristol Record Office)
Stapleton
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Stapleton from 1544
(P/HTS, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Stapleton (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Stoke Bishop
David Wright, Memorials of Stoke Bishop, its church and first vicar', by Mrs Wright, 1897 (4855,
Bristol Reference Library)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Stoke Bishop
(P/StMSB, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including papers concerning Stoke Bishop church and
parsonage (28048, Bristol Record Office)
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Subjects
Stoke Gifford
Tithe map and apportionment for Stoke Gifford (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Thornbury
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Thornbury (P330,
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including Thornbury tithe
accounts, from the Screen family of Kington, 1829-1872 (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury tithe map, 1840 (D11494, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tormarton
furnishings at Tormarton Church (40593, EP/Soc2/1, Bristol Record Office)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Tormarton (P/Tor,
Tithe map and apportionment for West Littleton (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Tortworth
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Tortworth (P338,
Tytherington
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Tytherington (P344,
furnishings at Wapley Church, 1999 (EP/Soc2/7, Bristol Record Office)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Wapley and
Codrington from 1662 (P/W&C, Bristol Record Office )
Tithe map and apportionment for Wapley and Codrington (see person and place indexes in
Warmley
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Warmley from 1851
(P/Wa, Bristol Record Office)
Westbury-on-Trym
191
Subjects
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Westbury-on-Trym (P/
HTW, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Westbury-on-Trym (see person and place indexes in
Westerleigh
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Westerleigh (P/W,
Tithe map and apportionment for Westerleigh (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Wick and Abson
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Wick and Abson
(P/Abs, Bristol Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Wick from 1738
(P/Wick, Bristol Record Office )
Tithe map and apportionment for Wick and Abson (see person and place indexes in
Wickwar
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Wickwar (P366,
Winterbourne
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Winterbourne (P/Wi,
Petition concerning the building of a new vestry at Winterbourne church, c.1843 (D9775,
Yate
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Yate from 1660
(P/StMY, Bristol Record Office)
Tithe map and apportionment for Yate (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office)
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Subjects
Photographs
Photographs can be found in many archive collections; this section highlights some of the main
sources. Researchers are especially directed to the Gloucestershire Photographic Series
(GPS, available via the prints and photographic index in the searchroom at Gloucestershire
Archives), which includes photographs and postcards covering the whole historic county of
Gloucestershire.
Photographs and postcards of places in South Gloucestershire, 19th-21st centuries (GPS,
Aerial photographs of schools in South Gloucestershire, 1990s (D10436, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Acton Turville
Photographs and postcards of Acton Turville (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Almondsbury
Photographs of highways and bridges, 1937-1940 (C/AH/V12, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs and postcards of Almondsbury (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Alveston
Photographs and postcards of Alveston (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Aust
Photographs of first Severn Bridge, Aust, undated [21st century] (D10971, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Photographs of Aust (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Avonmouth
Postcards of Avonmouth (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
193
Subjects
Bitton
Photographs and postcards of Bitton (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol
Charfield
Photographs and postcards of Charfield (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Chipping Sodbury
Photographs of Chipping Sodbury, 1960-1961 (D3135, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs of police stations: Chipping Sodbury, 1895 (D10866, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs and postcards of Chipping Sodbury (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Clifton
Cold Ashton
Compton Greenfield
Photographs of Compton Greenfield (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Cromhall
Postcards of Cromhall (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dodington
194
Subjects
Photographs and postcards of Dodington (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Downend
Photographs of Downend (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Doynton
Photographs of Doynton (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dyrham and Hinton
Photographs of Dyrham Park, 2002 (D9078, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs and postcards of Dyrham and Hinton (browse the online catalogue,
Elberton
Photographs of Elberton (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Women's Institute history of Elberton including photographs and drawings, 1958
(SR642/33388GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Falfield
Photograph of windmill at Falfield, 1979-1984 (D10946, Gloucestershire Archives)
Postcards of Falfield (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Filton
Photographs of Filton, c.1900-1960s (D9054, Gloucestershire Archives)
Fishponds
Photographs and postcards of Fishponds (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Photograph of 17 Gorse Hill, Fishponds, 1957 (40674, Bristol Record Office)
195
Subjects
Frampton Cotterell
Photograph of windmill at Frampton Cotterell, 1979-1984 (D10946, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs and postcards of Frampton Cotterell (browse the online catalogue,
Frenchay
Photographs of Frenchay (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Great Badminton
Photographs and postcards of Great Badminton (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Hanham Abbots
Photographs of Hanham Youth Centre, 2000 (D8869, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs of Hanham Abbots (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Hawkesbury
Photographs of Hawkesbury, nd, [1920s] (D10579, Gloucestershire Archives)
photographs c.1955-74 including Hawkesbury, Stanley Wood (K371/19, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Photographs and postcards of Hawkesbury (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Henbury
Photographs of Henbury (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Horfield
Photographs of Manor Farm, Horfield, and cottages built on its site, 1909-1930 (44143, Bristol
Record Office)
Iron Acton
Photographs and postcards of Iron Acton (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Women's Institute history of Iron Acton including photographs and drawings, 1958
196
Subjects
Kingswood
Photographs of police stations: Kingswood, 1890 (D10866, Gloucestershire Archives)
Little Sodbury
Photographs of Little Sodbury (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs of the Britannia air crash at Littleton-upon-Severn, 1954 (D9110, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Mangotsfield
Photographs of police stations: Staple Hill, 1898 (D10866, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs of Mangotsfield (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Marshfield
Photographs of Marshfield (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Handbill advertising the Marshfield "Paper Boys" mummers' plays, with photographs
(JR17.11GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Old Sodbury
Photographs of Old Sodbury (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldbury-on-Severn
Photographs and postcards of Oldbury-on-Severn (browse the online catalogue,
Oldland
Photographs and postcards of Oldland (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Women's Institute history of Oldland, including photographs, 1957 (SR649/36500GS,
197
Subjects
Olveston
Postcards of Olveston (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Patchway
Photographs of Patchway (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs deposited by Severn Beach Local History Group (43280, Bristol Record Office)
Postcards of Pilning and Severn Beach (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Pucklechurch
Photographs and postcards of Pucklechurch (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Women's Institute history of Pucklechurch, including photographs and postcards, 1957
Redland
Photographs of Redland (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
St George, Bristol
Photographs of police stations: St George, Bristol, 1887 (D10866, Gloucestershire Archives)
Siston
Photographs of Siston (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Soundwell
Photographs of Soundwell (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Stapleton
198
Subjects
Photographs of Stapleton (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Scrapbook including photograph of Bristol police orphanage at Stapleton, 1901
(A15/14456.65GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Stoke Bishop
Photographs of Stoke Bishop (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury
Photographs of Thornbury plays, 2000 (D8869, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs and notes relating to Thornbury, 1950s-1997 (D9685, Gloucestershire Archives)
Aerial photographs of Thornbury Hospital, 1990s (D10436, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs and postcards of Thornbury (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Tormarton
Photographs of Tormarton (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tortworth
Photographs and postcards of Tortworth (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Photographs of Wapley and Codrington (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Warmley
Photograph of windmill at Warmley, 1979-1984 (D10946, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs of Warmley (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Westbury-on-Trym
Photographs of Westbury-on-Trym (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
199
Subjects
Westerleigh
Photographs and postcards of Westerleigh (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Wick and Abson
Photograph of Wick Quarry, 2002 (D9078, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wickwar
Photographs and postcards of Wickwar (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs of Wickwar High Street, [1970] (D11984, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne
Photographs of travellers' children at the Winterbourne site, 2000 (D8869, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Photographs of Winterbourne (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs of owner and workers with machinery at Sturden Court Farm, Pye Corner,
Winterbourne (D11692, Gloucestershire Archives)
Yate
Photographs and postcards of Yate (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs of Yate Court, [1970] (D11984, Gloucestershire Archives)
200
Subjects
Planning and building control
Legislation in the 19th century, including the Local Government Act 1858 and the Public Health
Act 1875, enabled local authorities to require that plans of any new buildings or alterations to
existing ones should be deposited, in order to regulate and control building construction.
Several similar Acts during the first half of the 20th century imposed further restrictions, until the
Town and Country Planning Act 1947, which established that planning permission was needed
for any development. The Act also reorganised the planning system, making county and
borough councils responsible for planning in their own area and requiring that each authority
should produce a comprehensive local development plan, which is then used to assess
planning applications. Planning regulations govern the use of land, the appearance of buildings
and developments, and their impact on the landscape and buildings around them.
District councils are responsible for building control, which uses building regulations to ensure
that building work conforms to standards of health and safety.
Until 1974, South Gloucestershire’s planning was overseen by the South Gloucestershire
Planning Committee of Gloucestershire County Council, subsequently being taken over by Avon
County Council and from 1996 South Gloucestershire Council. Building control was overseen
by the various rural and urban district councils; after 1974 it was overseen by Kingswood
Borough Council and Northavon District Council, and from 1996 it has been overseen by South
Gloucestershire Council.
Planning
including:
Records of the City of Bristol Engineer and Planner (see printed catalogue in the searchroom,
Building control
Records of Kingswood Urban District Council, covering Kingswood and Mangotsfield, including:
Microfiche of building regulations files to 1974 (DA8, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Mangotsfield Urban District Council, covering Downend, Mangotsfield and
Soundwell, including:
Deposited building plans submitted for council approval, 1896-1898 (DA10, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Sodbury Rural District Council, covering Acton Turville, Chipping Sodbury, Coalpit
Heath, Cold Ashton, Dodington, Doynton, Dyrham and Hinton, Frampton Cotterell, Frenchay,
Great Badminton, Hawkesbury, Horton, Iron Acton, Little Sodbury, Marshfield, Old Sodbury,
Pucklechurch, Rangeworthy, Stoke Gifford, Tormarton, Wapley and Codrington, Westerleigh,
Wick and Abson, Wickwar, Winterbourne, Winterbourne Down and Yate, including:
Building control applications and plans, 1901-1960, papers relating to planning appeals,
1961-1974, registers of plans, 1945-1972, and microfiche of building regulations files to 1974
Records of Thornbury Rural District Council, covering Almondsbury, Alveston, Aust, Charfield,
201
Subjects
Compton Greenfield, Cromhall, Elberton, Falfield, Filton, Hill, Littleton-upon-Severn, Oldbury-onSevern, Olveston, Patchway, Pilning and Severn Beach, Rockhampton, Thornbury, Tortworth
and Tytherington (DA38, Gloucestershire Archives), including:
Building control applications and plans, 1887-1960, registers of plans, 1913-1973, and
microfiche of building regulations files to 1974 (DA38, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldland, Siston, Soundwell and Warmley, including:
Records of Barton Regis Rural Sanitary Authority and Rural District Council (see printed
catalogue in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Horfield Urban District Council and related authorities (see printed catalogue in the
Records of St George Urban District Council and related authorities (see printed catalogue in
the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Stapleton Urban District Council and related authorities (see printed catalogue in the
Records of Keynsham Rural District Council (D\R\keyn, Somerset Heritage Centre)
202
Subjects
Police, fire brigade and ambulance services
Bristol Constabulary was formed in 1835, and the rural police force in Gloucestershire was set
up by the Court of Quarter Sessions in the early 1840s, in spite of petitions in 1841-1842 from
many parishes who thought such a force was an unnecessary expense (Q/AP/8/1,
Gloucestershire Archives). In 1974, Avon and Somerset Constabulary was formed from the
Bristol and Bath City Constabularies, Somerset Constabulary and the Staple Hill Division of
Gloucestershire Constabulary, which comprised the police stations at Chipping Sodbury, Filton,
Staple Hill and Thornbury.
Fire brigades were formed and run locally until the Fire Brigades Act of 1938, which constituted
local authorities as fire authorities and gave them the responsibility for the provision of fire
services. The local fire brigades were brought under the control of the National Fire Service
during the Second World War, but after the war the Fire Service Act of 1947 returned the
responsibility for fire fighting, the protection of people and property and the supply of fire
hydrants and water to the local authorities. On local government reorganisation in 1974, the
Bath and Bristol city fire brigades, the Somerset county brigade and the southern part of the
Gloucestershire brigade amalgamated to form the Avon Fire Service, which was renamed the
Avon Fire and Rescue Service in 2006.
After the creation of the National Health Service in 1947, ambulance services were the
responsibility of local authorities. On local government reorganisation in 1974 the responsibility
for ambulance provision moved from local authorities to the National Health Service. The Avon
Ambulance Service was formed in 1974, and in 2006 it merged with the Gloucestershire and
Wiltshire services to form the Great Western Ambulance Service.
Large maps of Bristol extension showing police stations, 1897 (C/CL/P/47, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Acton Turville
Records of Gloucestershire Police including police force photograph album of scenes of road
accidents in Chipping Sodbury Division, 1929-1950 (Q/Y, Gloucestershire Archives)
Almondsbury
Records of Gloucestershire Police including police station diary for Cribbs Causeway (Q/Y,
Alveston
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including erection of police
stations at Olveston, Hallen, Alveston and Patchway, 1954 (C/CC/B/844, Gloucestershire
Archives)
203
Subjects
Chipping Sodbury
Plans of proposed police station, 1860 (D6298, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Chipping Sodbury Auxiliary Fire Service, 1930s-1970 (D8625, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Gloucestershire Police including:
Fines instalment ledgers for Chipping Sodbury police station (Q/Y, Gloucestershire Archives)
Police station offence books, Chipping Sodbury district, 1894-1928 (Q/Y, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Photograph album of scenes of road accidents in Chipping Sodbury Division, 1929-1950 (Q/
Y, Gloucestershire Archives)
Coalpit Heath
Cold Ashton
Dodington
Hawkesbury
Records of Gloucestershire Police including police station diary and offence book for
Hawkesbury (Q/Y, Gloucestershire Archives)
Henbury
Archives)
Kingswood
Photographs of police stations: Kingswood, 1890 (D10866, Gloucestershire Archives)
Little Sodbury
204
Subjects
Records of South Gloucestershire events compiled by members of the police force including
aircrash on the sand on the banks of the River Severn at Littleton-upon-Severn, 1954 (D9110,
Mangotsfield
Architect's drawings of single men's quarters at Staple Hill Police Station, Mangotsfield, 1963
Photographs of police stations: Staple Hill, 1898 (D10866, Gloucestershire Archives)
Marshfield
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including erection of house and
police station, Marshfield, 1954 (C/CC/B/860, Gloucestershire Archives)
Old Sodbury
Oldland
station, Cadbury Heath, 1955 (C/CC/B/896, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Gloucestershire Police including police station offence books for Longwell Green
and Oldbury Common (Q/Y, Gloucestershire Archives)
Olveston
Archives)
Patchway
Archives)
Records of Gloucestershire Police including police station offence book for Pilning (Q/Y,
205
Subjects
St George, Bristol
Photographs of police stations: St George, Bristol, 1887 (D10866, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury
Records of the Fire Service for Thornbury, 1864 (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Fire Service including photographs of Thornbury C3 Station, 1954
(C/AFB/V1/18, Gloucestershire Archives)
Warmley
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including erection of new police
station, Warmley, 1960 (C/CC/B1180, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wick and Abson
accidents in Chipping Sodbury Division, including Bridgeyate, 1929-1950 (Q/Y, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Wickwar
Records of Gloucestershire Police including police station diary for Wickwar (Q/Y,
Winterbourne
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including erection of twin police
stations Hambrook, Winterbourne, 1954 (C/CC/B/804, Gloucestershire Archives)
Yate
house, Yate, 1961 (C/CC/B/1266, Gloucestershire Archives)
206
Subjects
Poor relief
The City of Bristol passed a private Poor Relief Act in 1696, amalgamating the nineteen
parishes within the city for poor relief purposes and establishing the first Board of Guardians
and the first workhouse in England, at St Peter’s Hospital. The Board was known as the Bristol
Corporation of the Poor. The archives of the Corporation were held at St Peter’s Hospital which
was destroyed by enemy action in 1940, and consequently only a few records survive. For a
more detailed overview of poor relief in Bristol, see the introduction to this guide.
In Gloucestershire, each parish was responsible for its own poor until the passing of the Poor
Law Amendment Act 1834. This ended the system which had operated since the 16th century,
by which every parish was responsible for its own poor (and for which, see W E Tate, The
Parish Chest, 3rd edition, 1969) (available at Gloucestershire Archives). The parishes were
now compelled to form Poor Law Unions, administered by Boards of Guardians, each of which
had a workhouse.
The poor law unions were soon seen by central government as useful maids of all work, and
were allocated additional responsibilities including rating valuation, sanitation and public health,
and school attendance. Some of these functions were passed to the urban and rural district
councils in 1894 or 1927. Unions were abolished in 1930, when the County Council took over
the workhouses as public assistance institutions, and central government assumed direct
responsibility for other aspects of the work of the Guardians.
The varied records produced by Boards of Guardians have been described in A Handlist of the
records of the Boards of Guardians in the County of Somerset (Somerset County Council, 1949)
(available at Gloucestershire Archives). In Gloucestershire, the records of workhouse
administration frequently continue after 1930 in their new guise as Public Assistance Institution
records. Public Assistance Institutions were themselves abolished by the National Health
Service Act 1946, and from 1948 the buildings were either closed or became hospitals or old
people's homes.
An index to the records of the overseers of the poor held within parish collections at
Gloucestershire Archives forms part of Gloucestershire Archives’ Genealogical Database.
In this section, the main archives of the poor law unions are listed first, followed by individual
references to other poor relief records for specific parishes.
Records of Sodbury Poor Law Union, including Acton Turville, Chipping Sodbury, Cold Ashton,
Dodington, Doynton, Dyrham and Hinton, Filton, Frampton Cotterell, Great Badminton,
Hawkesbury, Horton, Iron Acton, Little Sodbury, Marshfield, Old Sodbury, Pucklechurch, Stoke
Gifford, Tormarton, Wapley and Codrington, Westerleigh, Wick and Abson, Wickwar,
Winterbourne and Yate (G/SO, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Thornbury Poor Law Union, including Almondsbury, Alveston, Aust, Charfield,
Cromhall, Elberton, Falfield, Hill, Littleton-upon-Severn, Oldbury-on-Severn, Olveston,
Patchway, Pilning and Severn Beach, Rangeworthy, Rockhampton, Thornbury, Tortworth and
Tytherington (G/TH, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sessions order rolls including removal orders; accounts of the overseers of the poor,
1753-1836 (Q/SR, Gloucestershire Archives)
207
Subjects
Barton Regis
Records of the Greenway family of Bristol, including papers relating to Barton Regis Union,
mainly 19th century (22936, Bristol Record Office)
concerning Barton Regis Poor Law Union (known as Clifton Union before 1877) (22936, Bristol
Record Office)
Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Sodbury poor rate, 1795 (D1837, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Public Assistance Committee of Gloucestershire County Council, including:
Minutes of the Guardians' Committee for Sodbury, 1936-48 (C/CWg/M10/1, 2,
Clifton
concerning Clifton Poor Law Union, 19th century, (see person and place indexes in
Hanham Abbots
Poor rate books for Hanham, 1842-1856 (42562, Bristol Record Office)
Little Sodbury
Old Sodbury
Stapleton
Pamphlet concerning Stapleton Workhouse, 1860 (2414, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of Manor Park and Blackberry Hill Hospitals, including records of Stapleton Workhouse
Thornbury
Guardians' Committee for Thornbury finance committee, 1930-35 (C/CWg/M14/3,
208
Subjects
Guardians' Committee for Thornbury, 1936-48 (C/CWg/M14/1, 2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Treasurer's Department of Gloucestershire County Council including:
Registers compiled under the Poor Law Officers' Superannuation Act including Thornbury,
1897-1933 (C/AF/1/12/1-15, Gloucestershire Archives)
Warmley
Guardians' Committee for Warmley boarding out committee, 1930-42 (C/CWg/M15/3,
Guardians' Committee for Warmley finance committee, 1934-36 (C/CWg/M15/4,
Guardians' Committee for Warmley, 1936-48 (C/CWg/M15/1-2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Warmley Out Relief Union (G/WA, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Warmley Out-Relief Union, 1897-1902 (42562, Bristol Record Office)
209
Subjects
Roman Catholic records
Roman Catholicism attracted few adherents in Gloucestershire before the 19th century. The
Diocese of Clifton preserves centrally the records of parishes for which it is responsible, but
some records have been deposited at Bristol Record Office.
Clifton
Records of the Diocese of Clifton (35721, Bristol Record Office)
Kingswood
Pucklechurch
Records of the Diocese of Clifton concerning Shortwood church (35721, Bristol Record Office)
Shirehampton
Westbury-on-Trym
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Sale particulars
Sale particulars of private and commercial property can be found in many business and official
archives. They typically include detailed descriptions of the property for sale, and often also
include maps and photographs.
Records of Meade King and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including sale particulars relating to
property in South Gloucestershire (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Acton Turville
Sale particulars of furniture and effects at Portcullis House, Acton Turville, 1967 (RF4.1GS,
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire County Council Education Committee correspondence including sale
particulars of Over Court Farm, 1944-46 (C/CE/C/7, Gloucestershire Archives)
including sale particulars relating to property in The Lea and Gaunts Earthcott, 17th -20th
property in Gaunts Earthcott, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Sale particulars of Over Court, properties in Over and manors of Over Hempton and Patchway,
Almondsbury, 1831 (RX11.2GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of manor of Gaunts Earthcott and lands in Almondsbury and Winterbourne,
1838 (RX11.1GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of property in Almondsbury, including the Swan Inn, 1878 (RX11.3GS,
Sale particulars of the Knole Park Estate, 1920 (RV11.1GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of Woodhouse Farm, Almondsbury, 1958 (RQ11.4GS, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Aust
including sale particulars relating to property in Aust, 17th -20th centuries (32395, Bristol
Record Office)
Bitton
property in Bitton, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
211
Subjects
Charfield
Sale conditions of property in Charfield, with map, 1834-1858 (D2180, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Chipping Sodbury
Records of Fox and Sons of Southampton (Hampshire), estate agents, including sale particulars
and correspondence relating to The Elms Estate, Chipping Sodbury, 1960 (D6290,
Records of Meade-King and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including sale particulars of property in
Compton Greenfield
property in Compton Greenfield, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Cromhall
Sale particulars of an allotment on Cromhall common, 1840 (RR97.1GS, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Sale particulars of Cromhall Rectory, 1982 (RR97.2GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dodington
Sale particulars of property in Dodington, 1990s (D7880, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dyrham and Hinton
Plan and schedule of Lower Lodge Farm, 1903 (D254, Gloucestershire Archives)
Falfield
Sale particulars of Eastwood Park estate, Falfield, 1916 (RX131.1GS, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Sale particulars of furniture and effects at The Gables, Falfield, 1948 (RQ131.1GS,
Filton
property in Filton, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Fishponds
Sale particulars of Oldbury Court, Fishponds, 1938 (B100/44987GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
212
Subjects
Frampton Cotterell
including:
Plan and sale particulars of farms and land at Frampton Cotterell, 1918 (32395, Bristol
Record Office)
Sale particulars relating to property in Frampton Cotterell, 1918 (31965, Bristol Record
Office)
property in Frampton Cotterell, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Great Badminton
Records of Forrester and Forrester of Chippenham (Wiltshire), solicitors, including sale
particulars of property in Great Badminton, 1958 (D7879, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of furniture and effects at the Old Vicarage, Great Badminton, 1967
(RQ32.1GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Hawkesbury
particulars of property in Hawkesbury, 1913 (D7879, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of premises in Hillesley, Hawkesbury, 1799 (RF156.16GS, RX156.2(8)GS,
Sale particulars of estate in Hawkesbury, Wickwar and North Nibley, including mansion house
and Sansom's Farm at Hawkesbury, and Old Close Farm and mine at Wickwar, 1803
(RX156.2(1)GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of land at Hawkesbury Upton, 1880 (RX156.2(7)GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of properties in Iron Acton, Hawkesbury and Yate, 1910 (RX3.1GS,
Sale particulars of Kilcot Mill, Hawkesbury, c.1984 (RR156.4GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Henbury
including sale particulars relating to property in Henbury, 17th -20th centuries (32395, Bristol
Record Office)
property in Henbury, Hallen and Lawrence Weston, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of the Sampson-Way family relating to Henbury, 18th-19th centuries, including sale
catalogue of Henbury Manor Estate, 1947 (36553, Bristol Record Office)
Sale particulars of estate at Hallen, Henbury, 1899 (RX160.2GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of farm at Henbury, 1899 (RR160.1GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of effects at Henbury Manor House, 1947 (RQ160.3GS, Gloucestershire
Archives)
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Horton
particulars of property in Horton, 1913 (D7879, Gloucestershire Archives)
Horton, 1903-1916 (D5929, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of property in Horton, 1990s (D7880, Gloucestershire Archives)
Hill
Sale particulars of furniture and effects at Hill Court, 1947 (R164.3GS, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Iron Acton
Little Sodbury
Sale particulars of property including Great House, Little Sodbury, and Brooklands, Bagstone
Court Farm and Little Bagstone Farm, Wickwar, 1907 (RX277.1GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Mangotsfield
including:
Plan and sale particulars of farms and land at Bury Hill, 1918 (32395, Bristol Record Office)
Sale particulars relating to property at Bury Hill, 1918 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
property in Staple Hill, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Marshfield
Plan and sale particulars of Oldfield Farm 1905 (D254, Gloucestershire Archives)
Old Sodbury
particulars of property in Old Sodbury, 1921 (D7879, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of Lyegrove House, Old Sodbury, 1988 (RV277.6GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldbury-on-Severn
Sale particulars of property at Oldbury-on-Severn, 1838 (RV222.1GS, Gloucestershire
Archives)
214
Subjects
Oldland
Sale particulars of house at Honey Hill and pasture land at Woodstock Hill called Dog's Hole,
Oldland, 1837 (RF47.2GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
property at Oldland Common, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Olveston
including sale particulars relating to property in Olveston, 17th -20th centuries (32395, Bristol
Record Office)
Patchway
Sale particulars of Over Court, properties in Over, Almondsbury, and manors of Over Hempton
and Patchway, 1831 (RX11.2GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of property at New Passage, Ableton and Redwick, 1906 (RX224.3GS,
St George, Bristol
property in St George, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Stoke Bishop
including plan and sale particulars of Stoke House Estate, Stoke Bishop, 20th century (31965,
32395, Bristol Record Office)
Thornbury
Sale particulars of residential holding at Morton Maypole, Thornbury, 1957 (RF303.13GS,
Sale particulars of furniture and effects at Thornbury Castle, 1960 (RR303.2GS,
Tormarton
Sale particulars of property in Tormarton, 1990s (D7880, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tortworth
Sale particulars of furniture at Tortworth Court, 1949 (RQ311.3GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tytherington
215
Subjects
Sale particulars of furniture and effects at the Grange, Tytherington, 1967 (RQ317.1GS,
Westbury-on-Trym
including plan and sale particulars of Henleaze Park Estate, 1913 (31965, 32395, Bristol Record
Office)
property in Westbury-on-Trym, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Westerleigh
including sale particulars relating to property in Westerleigh, 17th -20th centuries (32395, Bristol
Record Office)
Wickwar
Sale particulars of Barber's Court Farm, Wickwar, 1823 (RV340.1(1)GS, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Sale particulars of Bagstone Farm, Wickwar, 1857 (RX340.1GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of furniture and effects at Morton House, Wickwar, 1888 (R340.2GS,
Sale particulars of property including Great House, Little Sodbury, and Brooklands, Bagstone
Court Farm and Little Bagstone Farm, Wickwar, 1907 (RX277.1GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne
including sale particulars relating to property in Sturdon and Winterbourne, 17th -20th centuries
property in Winterbourne, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Yate
Sale particulars of estates at Yate, 1834 (RV356.1GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Schools
This section includes the records of schools, colleges and other educational institutions, and
records relating to their administration and management.
Prior to the 19th century, charity schools existed in some places, but most parishes had no
educational provision. The National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the
Principles of the Established Church (usually known as the National Society, and now known as
the National Society for Promoting Religious Education) was formed in 1811 and opened
Church of England schools, known as National Schools, in many parishes during the 19th
century.
The Education Act 1870 authorized the formation of school boards to establish or take over
responsibility for schools in areas of inadequate educational provision. Board Schools were not
affiliated to the Church of England, and were often nonconformist in nature.
The functions and property of school boards were transferred to local education authorities in
1903, the Board Schools becoming Council Schools, and the National Schools becoming
Church of England Schools.
The best introduction to the development of education in Gloucestershire currently available is A
H Platts and G H Hainton, Education in Gloucestershire (Gloucestershire County Council, 1954)
(available at Gloucestershire Archives).
Records of South Gloucestershire Council (SGC, Gloucestershire Archives)
Diocesan Inspectors of Schools' reports, 1872-1928 (GDR/S3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Register of Church elementary schools for whole diocese, 1935-1983 (GDR/A17/10/30,
Archives)
Acton Turville
School Attendance Committee record book for Sodbury Rural District Council, 1917-1972 (C
accession 12128 (uncatalogued), Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Acton Turville,
1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire County Council Education Committee correspondence including new infants'
school, Patchway, 1946 (C/CE/C/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
217
Subjects
Records of Easter Compton County Infants' School (S9, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Easter Compton Primary School (S9, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Almondsbury,
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Almondsbury (D2186,
Alveston
Records of Alveston Church of England School (D4764, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Alveston, 1903
(C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Alveston (D2186,
Aust
Records of Aust Church of England School (S28, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Aust Infants’ School, 1884-1908 (S28/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Aust, 1903
Bitton
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including erection of Bitton
Secondary Modern School, 1954 (C/CC/B/829, 829a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Bitton School Board (SB4, SM48, Gloucestershire Archives)
Notebooks of Mr H W Household, secretary for Education, 1903-1936 which recount visits to
schools including Bitton, 1902-1903 (C/AE/R/5/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Bitton School
and Upton Board School, 1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Upton Cheyney County Primary School (S48/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including letters relating to National education in
218
Subjects
Bristol, 1838-1841 (GDR/V4, Gloucestershire Archives)
plan and survey including school sites and building programmes Bristol area, 1952-1973
Charfield
Records of Charfield Church of England School, including governors' and managers' papers,
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including correspondence file relating to Charfield
school site and buildings, 1970 (GDR/A17, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Charfield, 1903
Chipping Sodbury
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Chipping Sodbury
Grammar School, 1936 (C/CC/B/247, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of B S Tait of Gloucester and Tirley, architect, including papers concerning Chipping
Sodbury Grammar School, mid 20th century (D4969, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Chipping Sodbury Church of England School (P300, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Chipping Sodbury Church of England School, 1867-1976 (S300, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Chipping Sodbury Grammar School (P300, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Painters Mead School, 1984-1989 (S300/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
schools including Chipping Sodbury Grammar School, 1929-1930 (C/AE/R/5/45,
Archives)
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including nominations of Schoolmaster of
Chipping Sodbury Free Grammar School, 1737, 1819 (GDR/S1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Chipping
Sodbury, 1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Chipping Sodbury
219
Subjects
Clifton
Cheltenham Borough Records, including papers relating to the admission of Albert Brooker to
the Clifton Industrial School, 1889 (CBR/C3/2/5/2/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Records of Bristol School Board (21131, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Hotwells Girls' School (21131, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bristol Grammar School, Clifton, 1874-2009 (40715, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Clifton Infant School, 1940-1958 (21131/SC/CLF, Bristol Record Office)
Records of St John's Primary School, Clifton, 1850-2005 (21131/SC/StJO, Bristol Record
Office)
Coalpit Heath
Records of the Education Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including:
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Coalpit Heath,
Records of The Manor Church of England Primary School (S91/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Cold Ashton
Records of Cold Ashton Church of England School (S23, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Cold Ashton,
Cromhall
Records of Cromhall Church of England School (P104, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of St Andrew's Primary School, Cromhall (S104, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Cromhall 1903
220
Subjects
Dodington
Records of Betteshanger School, Dodington, 1942 (D9451, Gloucestershire Archives)
Downend
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including:
New primary school, Bromley Heath, Downend, 1958 (C/CC/B/1073, 1078, Gloucestershire
Archives)
New primary school, Downend, 1951 (C/CC/B542, Gloucestershire Archives)
Managers' minutes of Downend County Primary School, 1956-1970, and Blackhorse and
Bromley Heath Primary Schools, 1958-1970 (D9319, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Blackhorse Primary School, Downend (S212/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Bromley Heath Infants' School, Downend (S212/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Bromley Heath Junior School, Downend (S212/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Christchurch Church of England Primary School, Downend, and predecessors
(S118/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Downend (D2186,
Records of Downend Nursery School, formerly known as Downend Babies Home, 1945-1952
(21131/SC/DOW, Bristol Record Office)
Doynton
Records of Doynton Church of England School (SM119, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Doynton, 1903
Dyrham and Hinton
Records of Dyrham and Hinton Church of England School (S126, SM126, Gloucestershire
Archives)
221
Subjects
Archives)
Certificate of continuation of Dyrham Free School under Walter Crew, 1735 (GDR/S1,
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Dyrham and
Hinton, 1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Elberton
Records of Olveston and Elberton County Junior School (S239, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Elberton (D2186,
Falfield
Records of Falfield Church of England School (P142, Gloucestershire Archives)
Appointment of foundation managers for Falfield school, 1916; letter from the National
Society concerning the school's history, 1975 (GDR/A17, Gloucestershire Archives)
Copy conveyances to Trust and trust deeds relating to Falfield School, 1910 (GDR/A17/1/28,
Filton
Filton Hill School photograph album of a day in the life of the school, 2000 (D8869,
Erection of new technical college, Filton, 1958 (C/CC/B/1098, Gloucestershire Archives)
Shields and Charborough schools, Filton, 1943 (C/CC/B/284, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Filton Church of England School (S144, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Filton High School (including Filton Senior Mixed School, later Filton Secondary
School), 1934-1987 (S144/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Filton Technical College (21131, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Filton, 1903
222
Subjects
Records of Monks Park School, Filton (21131/SC/MON, Bristol Record Office)
Fishponds
Records of the College School of St Matthias, 1863-2000 (41480, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bristol Diocesan Training College, later St Matthias' College, Fishponds, Bristol,
Charity Commission's scheme for the College of St Matthias, Fishponds, 1979 (GDR/A8/3/1,
Minutes, reports and accounts of the College of St Matthias, Fishponds, 1952-1971
(GDR/A17/10/49, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Whitefield Fishponds Community School, 1934-2008 (21131/SC/WHIT, 44226,
Records of Alexandra Park Secondary Modern School, Fishponds, 1910-1987 (21131/SC/ALP,
Records of Downend Road Temporary School, [Fishponds], 1904-1911 (21131/SC/DOT, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the College of St Matthias schools, Fishponds, 1863-2000 (21131/SC/StMTFis,
Frampton Cotterell
Records of Brockeridge Infants' School (S148/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Frampton Cotterell Church of England Primary School (S148/2, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Frampton
Cotterell British School and Frampton Cotterell National School, 1903 (C/AE/R/4,
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Frampton Cotterell
Frenchay
Records of Frenchay Church of England Primary School (S151/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Frenchay, 1903
223
Subjects
Records of Frenchay Sanitorium School, 1930-1949 (21131/SC/FRE, Bristol Record Office)
Great Badminton
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including correspondence file relating to Great
Badminton school site and buildings, 1950-1972 (GDR/A17, Gloucestershire Archives)
Hanham Abbots
Records of Christchurch Church of England Primary School (formerly Christchurch National
School, and also known as Hanham Church of England School), 1863-2004 (S160/2,
Records of Samuel White's Infant School, (1849)-2006 (S160/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Hanham (D2186,
Hawkesbury
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Hawkesbury (D2186,
Henbury
Pamphlet containing W P Taunton's account of A Edmond's Charity for the education of all
children in Henbury, Westbury-on-Trym and Horfield, 1834 (4047, Bristol Reference Library)
Christopher Cole's Charities relating to Henbury Free School (35749, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Henbury Manor School (41479, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Henbury Manor Special School, formerly Newfoundland Road Special School,
1946-2000 (21131/SC/HEM, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Henbury School, 1869-1963 (21131/SC/HEN, Bristol Record Office)
224
Subjects
Records of Kings Weston House School, 1949-1961 (21131/SC/KWH, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Lawrence Weston Secondary School, 1954-2003 (21131/SC/LAW, 42531, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of Queen Elizabeth's Hospital including charity deeds and miscellaneous papers
Hill
Records of Hill Church of England School (S177, Gloucestershire Archives)
Horfield
Records of Filton Avenue Secondary Boys School, Horfield, 1933-1960 (21131/SC/FIL, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of St Gregory Temporary Infant School, Horfield, 1926-1929 (21131/SC/StGR, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of Upper Horfield School, Horfield, 1928-1960 (21131/SC/UPH, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Fairfield Secondary School, later Fairfield Grammar School, Horfield, 1903-1997
(21131/SC/FAI (uncatalogued), Bristol Record Office)
Horton
Records of Horton Church of England School, 1886-1977 (S182, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Horton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Horton (D2186,
Iron Acton
Records of Iron Acton Church of England Primary School (S3/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Iron Acton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Iron Acton (D2186,
225
Subjects
Kingswood
Cock Road Daily School Society report, 1842 (7443-7444, Bristol Reference Library)
Boys' School, Kingswood, 1939 (C/CC/B/266, Gloucestershire Archives)
Infant School, Kingswood, 1939 (C/CC/B/262, Gloucestershire Archives)
Kingswood Grammar School, 1944 (C/CC/B/304, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Flook family of Kingswood, including student’s reports from the Kingswood
College of Boot and Shoe Manufacture, 1950-1952 (D8868, Gloucestershire Archives)
Minutes of Kingswood College of Boot and Shoe Manufacture, 1944-1952 and 1957-1959
Papers relating to proposed new Kingswood Schools, 1890-1891, including correspondence,
maps and plans (D9319, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Beacon Rise Primary School and predecessor schools (S192/4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Deers Wood County Primary School (S192/6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Falconride Primary School (S192/7, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Gloucestershire County Council Education Committee concerning inspection of
secondary schools, including Kingswood Secondary School, 1925 (C/CE/R4/21/2,
Records of Gloucestershire County Council, including records of the Grange School, including
building plans, 1968-1969; reports, 1968-1970 (C/AA/B57-B59, B63-B66, R1, R2,
Records of Hanham Road Girls' School (S192/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Kingswood (later Kingswood and Oldland) School Board, 1889-1914 (SB27,
Records of Kingswood and Oldland School Board (SB27, SM192/5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Kingswood Girls' County Secondary School and Kingswood Girls’ Senior School
Records of Kingswood Girls' School c.1878-1919, Kingswood Girls' Council School, 1906-1921,
Kingswood Primary Schools, 1955-1970, Kingswood Grammar School, 1943-1959, Kingswood
Grammar and Secondary Schools, 1949-1958, Kingswood Secondary Schools, 1949-1971, and
Kingsfield and Grange Schools, 1971-1973 (D9319, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Kingswood Girls' Senior School (S192/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Kingswood Grammar School (D9137, D9287, SM192/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Kingswood High Street School (SM192/6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Kingswood School, formerly Kingswood Refomatory (28776, 38128, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of Kingswood School (MF1243, Gloucestershire Archives)
Report of Kingswood Reformatory School, 1902 (4326, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of Kingswood Weslyan School (S192/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Courtney Primary School, Kingswood, 1971-2007 (S192/9, Gloucestershire
Archives)
226
Subjects
schools including Kingswood School and Kingswood High Street School, 1932 (C/AE/R/5/51,
Gloucestershire, including Kingswood, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Little Sodbury
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Little Sodbury (D2186,
Records of Littleton-upon-Severn Church of England School (S202, Gloucestershire Archives)
Mangotsfield
Erection of junior technical school, Staple Hill, 1944 (C/CC/B/307, Gloucestershire Archives)
Erection of Rodway Technical High School, 1960 (C/CC/B/1185, Gloucestershire Archives)
Mangotsfield Secondary Modern School, 1954 (C/CC/B/798, 827, Gloucestershire Archives)
Governors' minutes of Staple Hill Secondary School (later the Chase School for Boys),
Records of Barley Close Primary School (S212/5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Mangotsfield Church of England Primary School (S212/6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Staple Hill Senior Girls’ School (later the Page School for Girls), c.1929-1990
Records of Rodway Hill Secondary Technical School, 1957-1960, and of Rodway School,
Records of Staple Hill Primary School (formerly Staple Hill Council School), 1910-1982 (S212/4,
Records of the County Clerk's Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including legal
matters including site of Council school, Soundwell Road, Mangotsfield, (1762)-1908 (C/CC/L/5,
Gloucestershire, including Mangotsfield, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
227
Subjects
Marshfield
Records of Marshfield Church of England School (P213, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Marshfield, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Old Sodbury
Records of Old Sodbury Church of England School (P302, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Old Sodbury, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldbury-on-Severn
Records of Oldbury-on-Severn Church of England School (P237, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Education Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including
schools including Oldbury, 1914 (C/AE/R/5/25, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Oldbury-on-Severn, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Oldbury-on-Severn
Oldland
Records of Bitton School Board, 1883-1912, including Oldland Common (SB4, SM48,
Records of Cadbury Heath School (SM238, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Kingswood and Oldland School Board (SB27, SM192/5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Kingswood and Oldland School Board, including Cadbury Heath School (SB27,
SM192/5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Longwell Green Primary School (S48/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Oldland Common Council School (S48/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Oldland School Board (SB27, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Oldland School Board, late 19th century (D9319, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Oldland Secondary Schools, 1957-1965 (D9319, Gloucestershire Archives)
228
Subjects
Records of Oldland, Cadbury Heath and Parkwall Primary Schools, 1954-1960 (D9319,
Gloucestershire, including Oldland, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Oldland National
School and Oldland Board School, 1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Oldland (D2186,
Olveston
Gloucestershire, including Olveston, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Olveston (D2186,
Records of Tockington Manor School, Olveston, 1951 (D9511, Gloucestershire Archives)
Patchway
Records of Callicroft Primary and predecessor schools (S406/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Patchway, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Patchway, 1903
Records of Pilning County Primary School (formerly Redwick and Northwick County School)
(S266, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Redwick and Northwick Church of England School (formerly Northwick Endowed
Gloucestershire, including Redwick and Northwick, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Pilning, 1903 (C/
AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Pucklechurch
Papers of H Cossham concerning education in Pucklechurch c.1861 (3464, Bristol Reference
Library)
229
Subjects
Records of Parkfield Infants' School (S259/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Pucklechurch Church of England Primary School (S259/1, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Pucklechurch Council School (S259/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Pucklechurch, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Rangeworthy
Records of Rangeworthy Church of England Primary School (S264/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Rangeworthy Church of England School (P264, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Rangeworthy, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Redland
Photographs of pupils at Redland Collegiate School, 1930 (44319, Bristol Record Office)
Records relating to Redland High School for Girls (44508, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bristol Steiner School, [20th century] (44720, Bristol Record Office)
Records of St Saviour School, Redland, 1883-1958 (21131/SC/StSA, Bristol Record Office)
Rockhampton
Records of Rockhampton Parochial School (S271, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Rockhampton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including correspondence file relating to
Rockhampton school site and buildings, 1935-1975 (GDR/A17, Gloucestershire Archives)
St George, Bristol
J Stone's exposition concerning education, relating to Summerhill School, 1852 (6423, Bristol
Reference Library)
Prospectus of the St George Higher Grade School, 1897-1898 (3117, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of St George School Board (21131, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Summerhill Junior School (39050, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Air Balloon Hill School, St George, 1920-1964 (21131/SC/ABH, Bristol Record
230
Subjects
Office)
Records of St George Boys School, 1895-1919 (21131/SC/StGE, Bristol Record Office)
Records of St George Day Continuation School, 1919-1921 (21131/SC/StGED, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of St George Open Air School, 1921-1941 (21131/SC/StGEO, Bristol Record Office)
Records of St George Secondary School, 1894-1949 (21131/SC/StGeoSec, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of Two Mile Hill School and Juvenile Instruction Centre, St George, 1896-1936 (21131/
SC/TMH, Bristol Record Office)
Records of St Philip and St Jacob School, 1894-1943 (21131/SC/StPJ, Bristol Record Office)
Shirehampton
Records of Shirehampton Infants and Junior School (41549, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Portway Community School, Shirehampton (21131, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Penpole School, Shirehampton, 1948-1978 (21131/SC/PEN, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Shirehampton Infant School, 1988-2000 (21131/SC/SHI, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Shirehampton Junior School, 1975-2000 (21131/SC/SHJ, Bristol Record Office)
Siston
Records of Siston National School (S294, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Siston, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Soundwell
Erection of new technical college, Soundwell, Mangotsfield, 1958 (C/CC/B/1097,
Records of Soundwell Technical College (21131, Bristol Record Office)
Records of St Stephen's County Infants' School, Soundwell (S192/5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Southmead
Records of Fonthill Road School, Southmead, 1931-1998 (21131/SC/FON, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of Greenway School, Southmead, 1951-1984 (21131/SC/GRW, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Southmead Elementary School, 1894-1906 (21131/SC/SOU, Bristol Record Office)
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Subjects
Stapleton
Records of Stapleton School Board (21131, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including records of Colston's School,
1807-1907 (SMV, Bristol Record Office)
Stoke Bishop
Records of Stoke Bishop Primary School (42618, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Stoke Bishop School, 1906-1967 (21131/SC/SBS, Bristol Record Office)
Stoke Gifford
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Stoke Gifford Primary
School, 1950 (C/CC/B/490, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of St Michael's Church of England School (S313, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Stoke Gifford, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Development plan and survey including Polytechnic site at Stoke Gifford [now University of
West of England], 1963-1968 (K193/74, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury
Erection of Thornbury Grammar School, 1954 (C/CC/B/823, Gloucestershire Archives)
Erection of Thornbury Secondary Modern School, 1954 (C/CC/B/824, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Papers concerning Thornbury Church School, 1918 (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Buckover National School (S330, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Jones, White and Edwards Free School (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Gloucestershire County Council Education Committee concerning inspection of
secondary schools, including Thornbury Grammar School, 1933 (C/CE/R4/21/8,
Records of St Mary's Church of England School (P330, SM330/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
232
Subjects
schools including Thornbury Grammar School, 1922-1923 (C/AE/R/5/35) and Thornbury
Secondary School, 1933 (C/AE/R/5/53) (both Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Thornbury, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Thornbury
National School and Thornbury Board School, 1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Thornbury (D2186,
Records of Thornbury Free School, also known as Atwell's Free School (35192, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of Thornbury Grammar School (D663, D4764, D4810, Gloucestershire Archives)
of the Thornbury Council Schools, 1906-1916 (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tormarton
Gloucestershire, including Tormarton, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Tormarton, 1903
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Tormarton (D2186,
Records of Tormarton Church of England School (S337, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tortworth
Gloucestershire, including Tortworth, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Tortworth, 1903
Tytherington
Gloucestershire, including Tytherington, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Tytherington County Primary School (S344, Gloucestershire Archives)
233
Subjects
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Wapley with
Codrington, 1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Wapley Church of England Primary School (43795, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Wapley with Codrington Church of England School (S350, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Warmley
Records of Warmley Church of England School (S351/1, SM351, Gloucestershire Archives)
Westbury-on-Trym
History of Redmaids School, privately printed, 1908 (7982, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of Westbury-on-Trym Church of England Primary School (38773, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Sea Mills Junior School, Westbury-on-Trym (21131/SC/SMJ, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Westbury-on-Trym School, 1855-1967 (21131/SC/WOT, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Pen Park School, Westbury-on-Trym, 1959-2000 (21131/SC/PEP, Bristol Record
Office)
Westerleigh
Gloucestershire, including Westerleigh, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Westerleigh,
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Westerleigh (D2186,
Records of Westerleigh Church of England School (S357, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wick and Abson
Gloucestershire, including Wick and Abson, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
234
Subjects
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Wick and Abson,
Wickwar
Gloucestershire, including Wickwar, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Wickwar
National School and Wickwar Board School, 1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Wickwar Endowed School, The Alexander Hosea School (P366, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Alexander Hosea Primary School, 1868-1999 (S366/1, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Alexander Hosea's Charity School (D6651, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne
Records of Elm Park Primary School (S372/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of St Michael's Church of England Primary School (S372/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
schools including Whiteshill Elementary School, 1905-1906 (C/AE/R/5/11, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Gloucestershire, including Winterbourne, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Winterbourne
and Winterbourne Down Schools, 1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Winterbourne (D2186,
Winterbourne Down
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Winterbourne
and Winterbourne Down Schools, 1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Yate
235
Subjects
Gloucestershire, including Yate, 1939-45 (C/AE/V/1/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Yate National
School and Yate British School, 1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Yate (D2186,
Records of Wellesley Primary School (S381/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Yate British School (SM381, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Rodford Primary School, Yate, 1967-2010 (S417, Gloucestershire Archives)
236
Subjects
Societies and voluntary organisations
This section includes the records of many very diverse societies and organisations, from sports
clubs to social organisations, from the Women’s Institute to village hall committees, local history
societies and the National Farmers’ Union. The records of societies and organisations often
include much local information, and the archives of local history societies in particular often
include original documents relating to their local area.
Photographs of Bristol and South Gloucestershire Gujurati Club, 2000 (D8869, Gloucestershire
Archives)
List of societies whose rules have been transmitted to the Registrar, 1750-1828, including
Female Friendly Society, 1802-1828, and the South Gloucestershire Friendly Society, 1825
(Q/RSf/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Gloucestershire Rural Community Council (D3168, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Association of Local Government Officers (NALGO), relating to the
South Gloucestershire area (D2699, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Northavon Labour Party, formerly South Gloucestershire Labour Party and
Thornbury Division Labour Party, 1926-1975 (D8635, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Avon County Scout Association (40638 (uncatalogued), Bristol Record Office)
Records of Girl Guiding in South Gloucestershire, 1908-2010 (40825, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Avon Liberal Party (44071, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Gloucestershire Football Association, 1980s-2000s (40210, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Avon Federation of Women's Institutes (43553, Bristol Record Office)
Almondsbury
Frenchay Cricket Club: photograph of match between 1st XI and Almondsbury, 1973 (D10130,
Records of Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions including list of societies whose rules have been
transmitted to the Registrar, 1788-1822 (Q/RSf/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Olveston Historical Society relating to Tockington (D2604, Gloucestershire Archives)
Alveston
Archives)
237
Subjects
Aust
Meeting Point Community Magazine, covering Olveston, Tockington Old Down, Lower Hazel,
Awkley, Ingst, Aust, Elberton and Littleton-upon-Severn (43697, Bristol Record Office)
Avonmouth
Records of St Andrew's Lodge of Freemasons, Avonmouth, 1895-2007 (D12482, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Bitton
Records of Kingswood, St George and Bitton Cottagers' Horticultural Society, 1866 (14170,
Records of the Bitton and Oldland division of the Royal British Legion, 1929-1959 (D11910,
Bristol
Archives)
Records of Bristol and Gloucester Diocesan Church Bellringers' Association (D4137,
Records of Rolls Royce Heritage Trust (Bristol) including "100 years of aviation in the West of
England" a celebration of technology and the city-region": A brochure launching the project to
celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the founding of British and Colonial Aeroplane Company at
Filton in 1910 (D11271, Gloucestershire Archives)
photographs c.1955-74 including Bristol Gliding Club (K371/36, Gloucestershire Archives)
Chipping Sodbury
Archives)
Photographs of BS17 Volunteers Link gala evening, Chipping Sodbury, 2000 (D8869,
Records of Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions including book of reference concerning Chipping
Sodbury and Wick and Abson Allotments, 1891, (Q/RUm/501, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Sodbury and District Historical Society, 1935-2000 (D9368, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Sodbury Vale Family History Group, including record of monumental inscriptions
(see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
238
Subjects
Archives)
Clifton
Records of Gloucestershire Football Association, including Clifton St Vincents Football Club,
Bristol: booklet commemorating club's centenary, 1999 (D5244, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society, 1875-2005 (41469, Bristol Record
Office)
Coalpit Heath
Downend
Dyrham and Hinton
Photographs of Dyrham and Hinton taken by members of the Women's Institute, 2000 (D8869,
Elberton
Records of the Elberton Millennium Group, 2000 (D8631, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire Federation of Women's Institutes, including Elberton WI
Falfield
Records of Falfield Women's Institute 1929-1997 (D8138, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Tytherington and Falfield Cricket Clubs, 1949-2000 (D11461, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Filton
239
Subjects
Fishponds
transmitted to the Registrar, 1807 (Q/RSf/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Frampton Cotterell
Frenchay
Records of Frenchay Cricket Club, 1875-2002 (D10130, Gloucestershire Archives)
Hanham Abbots
Hawkesbury
Records of the Gloucestershire Federation of Women's Institutes, including Hillesley WI,
Henbury
Records of Henbury Townswomen's Guild, 1954-2004 (44281, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bristol Rugby Football Club, 1898-1988 (44624, Bristol Record Office)
Horfield
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club rules and lists of members, 1896, 1898, 1900 and 1901;
scores, 1870-1887 (4034-4037, 6415-6418, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of Ashley Vale Action Group, concerning the Ashley Vale community building project,
240
Subjects
Records of the Old Fairfieldians' Society, association for former pupils at Fairfields School,
Horfield (44138/PM/1, Bristol Record Office)
Iron Acton
furnishings at Iron Acton Church, 2001-2002 (42290, EP/Soc2/12, Bristol Record Office)
Kingswood
Records of Gloucestershire County Nursing Association, including reports of Kingswood District
Records of Kingswood Benevolent Society, 1833 (9736, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Kingswood Borough History Forum, 1986-2002 (D7447, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Kingswood Child Health Clinic (D2429, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Kingswood History Society (D7448, Gloucestershire Archives)
Report of Kingswood Benevolent Society, 1833 (3943, Bristol Reference Library)
Little Sodbury
Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire Federation of Women's Institutes, including Littleton-uponSevern WI (D2933, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Littleton Millennium Record Group, 2002 (D9218, Gloucestershire Archives)
Mangotsfield
Records of Mangotsfield Townswomen's Guild, 1947-1970s (D12018, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Marshfield
241
Subjects
Records of Marshfield and District Local History Society, 1751-2006 (D9053, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Marshfield Smallholdings Society (D2950, Gloucestershire Archives)
Old Sodbury
Archives)
Oldbury-on-Severn
Records of Oldbury-on-Severn Memorial Hall, 1919-1979 (D6958, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Oldbury-on-Severn branch of the Royal British Legion, 1929-1990s (D9091,
Records of Oldbury-on-Severn Women’s Institute, 1937-2001 (D5036, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Oldbury Action Group, 1991-1992 (D11890, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Oldbury-on-Severn Millennium Committee, 1999-2002 (D11891, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Oldbury-on-Severn Jubilee Committee, 2001-2003 (D11892, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Oldland
Olveston
furnishings at Olveston Church (41184, EP/Soc2/3, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Olveston Historical Society (D2604, Gloucestershire Archives)
Pilning Tots Time scrap book of the activities of the playgroups, 2000 (D8869, Gloucestershire
Archives)
242
Subjects
Records of Gloucestershire County Nursing Association, including minutes of Pilning District
Records of Pilning District Nursing Association (D4057, Gloucestershire Archives)
Pucklechurch
Rangeworthy
furnishings at Holy Trinity Church, Rangeworthy, 2004 (D8860, Gloucestershire Archives)
Redland
Records of Redland Elderly People's Club, 1966-1996 (44144, Bristol Record Office)
St George, Bristol
Siston
transmitted to the Registrar, 1794 and 1826 (Q/RSf/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Stapleton
Records of Stapleton Cricket Club, 1926-1995 (D9030, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including maps of the Stapleton Estate, 1858
and 1934 (SMV/5/1/8/9, SMV/6/4/8/3, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the South Gloucestershire Friendly Society Winterbourne and Stapleton Association,
1831-1833 (7437-7439, Bristol Reference Library)
Stoke Gifford
243
Subjects
Records of Stoke Gifford Child Health Clinic (D2429, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury
Photographs of Thornbury plays, 2000 (D8869, Gloucestershire Archives)
Friendly Society (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Horticultural Society (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Mutual Insurance Society concerning cattle plague, 1865 (35192, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of the National Farmers' Union, Thornbury branch (D2399, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Society of Thornbury Folk (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Thornbury Historical Society (D5037, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Thornbury Horticultural Society (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Thornbury Institution for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (D3789, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Thornbury and District Oral History Society, 1994-2003 (D9594, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Thornbury Primrose League (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
of the Thornbury Horticultural Society including rules, prize lists, correspondence and vouchers
of the Thornbury Primrose League including minutes 1887-1910 (D1578, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Thornbury District Insurance Committee cash book, 1913-1920 (D8842, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Tormarton
furnishings at Tormarton Church (40593, EP/Soc2/1, Bristol Record Office)
Tytherington
Archives)
Archives)
244
Subjects
furnishings at Wapley Church, 1999 (EP/Soc2/7, Bristol Record Office)
Westbury-on-Trym
Records of Friendly Society held at the Goat, 1772 (07898, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including papers concerning St Monica Home of
Rest, 1919 (SMV, Bristol Record Office)
Westerleigh
Records of the Gloucestershire Federation of Women's Institutes, including Westerleigh WI
Wick and Abson
Records of Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions including book of reference concerning Chipping
Sodbury and Wick and Abson Allotments, 1891, (Q/RUm/501, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wickwar
Winterbourne
Photographs of travellers' children at the Winterbourne site, 2000 (D8869, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the South Gloucestershire Friendly Society Winterbourne and Stapleton Association,
Yate
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Subjects
Taxation and valuation
Land Tax assessments were carried out for every parish in the late 18th and early 19th
centuries. Early returns give names of owners, and of occupiers from 1781. Sometimes
descriptions of property and rentals are given. After c.1800 a tabulated form of entry, including a
description of the property, becomes general. After 1799 tax exonerated is distinguished. From
1825 a standard printed form gives rental, owners, and occupiers, sums assessed and
exonerated, sums assessed and not exonerated; and from 1826 a description of the property.
Rentals entered are nominal, being based on the 1691 assessment.
The Land Tax assessment returns for parishes in South Gloucestershire are held at
Gloucesteshire Archives, reference Q/REl and reference D12430.
The Finance Act 1910 required the valuation of all land in order to calculate duties to be paid.
The records produced as part of the surveying and valuation process include marked-up
Ordnance Survey sheets, and books of reference or “Domesday books”, which contain a precis
of the valuation, with owner, occupier, description of property, street or parish poor rate
assessment, map reference, extent, value and deductions.
The Finance Act maps and books of reference for parishes in South Gloucestershire are held at
Gloucestershire Archives, reference D2428.
For references to these records for individual parishes, see the ‘Places’ section of this guide.
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Travel and transport
This section includes records relating to canals and river navigations, footpaths, railways, roads
and highways.
A major source for this subject is the series of plans and schemes for public undertakings
involving capital investment from private sources requiring the assent of Parliament. These are
part of the archive of the Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions, and include schemes for the
building, alteration and improvement of canals, rivers, footpaths, railways and roads and cover
the whole of South Gloucestershire as well as the City of Bristol, dating from the 18th to the
20th century. (Q/RUm, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sources for individual subjects and parishes are given below; for more detail see the ‘Places’
section of this guide.
Travel and transport - canals and river navigations
Aust
Pamphlet concerning projected bridge over the Severn at Aust (Old) Passage, 1846; plan of
improved ferry from Aust to Beachley, undated (1643, 9805, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of the Astry family, including estate papers concerning Aust Ferry, 1650-1732 (AC,
Records of Vizard and Son of Monmouth, solicitors, including papers of the Ducarel and Bevan
families of Newland, concerning Old Passage Ferry, Aust, 1813-1881 (D637, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Highways Department of Gloucestershire County Council including:
Correspondence, reports and papers concerning Beachley-Aust ferry and proposed road and
railway bridge across the Severn, 1931-1935; joint barrage and bridge scheme, 1933-1945
(C/AC/C3/7, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol
Records of the Rivers Committee of the Corporation of Bristol, 1791-1826 (BCC/A/2, Bristol
Record Office)
Hanham Abbots
Papers relating to alterations making the River Avon navigable between Bath and Hanham,
including lists of landowners, 1725 (8029, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Port of Bristol Authority, including aerial photographs of the port area, including
Crooks Marsh and Chittening (41253, Bristol Record Office)
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Subjects
Travel and transport - footpaths
Definitive Maps of footpaths under National Parks and access to the Countryside Act 1947, and
related papers, covering most of the parishes in South Gloucestershire (K687, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Applications to Quarter Sessions from County Council as highway authority for diversion or
stopping up of public footpaths or highways, including instructions to County Clerk and plans (C/
CH/O, Gloucestershire Archives)
Travel and transport - railways
Aust
Bristol
Maps and plans including Bristol Tramways Extension, 1904 (C/CC/P/7, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Charfield
Records of British Rail and its predecessor bodies, including papers concerning Charfield, 19th
and 20th centuries (D8251, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Mr H E Hawker of Stonehouse, stationmaster and antiquary, including notes on local
railways, including the Charfield train disaster, 1928 (D9174, Gloucestershire Archives)
Chipping Sodbury
Records of British Rail and its predecessor bodies, including files relating to sale of railway
property in Chipping Sodbury, 1960s-1980s (D8251, Gloucestershire Archives)
Filton
Great Western Railway account of connecting the Docks with the GWR via Filton, 1910 (3171,
Mangotsfield
Records of British Rail and its predecessor bodies, including papers concerning Mangotsfield
and Mangotsfield Station, 19th and 20th centuries (D8251, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Tytherington
Records of British Rail and its predecessor bodies: papers concerning Tytherington, 19th and
20th centuries (D8251, Gloucestershire Archives)
Yate
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including railway bridge, Yate,
1938 (C/CC/B/250, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of British Rail and its predecessor bodies, including papers concerning Yate, 19th and
20th centuries (D8251, Gloucestershire Archives)
Travel and transport - roads and highways
The Highways Act 1862 empowered Justices of the Peace to make orders for the formation of
highway districts, each administered by a Highway Board. Twenty-two were formed in
Gloucestershire, although some parishes continued to maintain their own roads until 1894 (see
Map 8). The newly-created County Council took over responsibility for 'main' roads (mostly
former turnpike roads) in 1889, and in 1894 responsibility for other roads passed to urban and
rural district councils by virtue of ss 21 and 25 of the Local Government Act 1894, although the
Gloucestershire Highway Boards seem not to have been finally wound up until 1899.
Records of Lawfords Gate Highway Board, including Bitton, Downend, Filton, Fishponds,
Frampton Cotterell, Frenchay, Hanham Abbots, Henbury, Horfield, Kingswood, Mangotsfield,
Oldland, Redland, Shirehampton, Soundwell, Southmead, St George, Bristol, Stapleton, Stoke
Bishop, Stoke Gifford, Westbury-on-Trym, Winterbourne and Winterbourne Down (HB10,
Records of Sodbury Highway Board, including Acton Turville, Chipping Sodbury, Coalpit Heath,
Cold Ashton, Dodington, Doynton, Dyrham and Hinton, Great Badminton, Hawkesbury, Horton,
Little Sodbury, Marshfield, Old Sodbury, Pucklechurch, Siston, Tormarton, Wapley and
Codrington, Warmley, Westerleigh, Wick and Abson, Wickwar and Yate (HB15, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Thornbury Highway Board, including Almondsbury, Alveston, Aust, Elberton,
Falfield, Hill, Iron Acton, Littleton-upon-Severn, Oldbury-on-Severn, Olveston, Patchway, Pilning
and Severn Beach, Rangeworthy, Rockhampton, Thornbury and Tytherington (HB19,
Records of Wotton-under-Edge Highway Board, 1864-1899, including Charfield, Cromhall and
Tortworth (HB22, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sessions order rolls including highway repair certificates, 1748-1834 (Q/SR, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Plans of main roads, including roads in the Sodbury and Lawfords Gate Highways Divisions,
1879 (Q/AH/23, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Records of the Highways Committee of Gloucestershire County Council, including:
stopping up of public footpaths or highways, including instructions to County Clerk and plans
(C/CH/O, Gloucestershire Archives)
New street orders (C/CH/On), private street works orders (C/CH/Op), regulations of road use,
compulsory purchase orders, pedestrian crossing orders and highways orders (C/CH/Or) (all
Almondsbury
Kingswood Borough Council: photographs of the motorway interchange at Almondsbury
[undated] (DC115, Gloucestershire Archives)
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including trunk road Almondsbury-Elberton, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SB1/22,
Maps of plans of highways and bridges, including improvement at Pilning Vicarage to B4064
Redwick-Cribbs Causeway, 1950 (C/AH/P/40, Gloucestershire Archives)
Alveston
Plans, profiles and working drawings of the Alveston and Michael Wood Sections of the
Birmingham-East Brent Motorway (M5), part of the personal papers of the chief engineer,
Aust
Archives)
250
Subjects
Maps and plans of highways and bridges, including Hill House Farm, Aust, 1963 (C/AH/P12,
Papers concerning the Severn Bridge, 1936-1960 (C/AF/C/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Severn Bridge Act, 1935 (C/CC/Da/1/31, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol
Chipping Sodbury
Records of Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions including highway repair certificates (Q,
Records of Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions including plans of main roads, 1879 (Q/AH/23,
Records of Sodbury, Cirencester and Bath Turnpike Trust, 1748-1873 (D568, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Correspondence, reports and papers concerning improvement of highways and footpaths at
Chipping Sodbury Common, (1791)-1927 (C/AC/C3/22/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Clifton
Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol relating to Clifton Turnpike, 1809-1867 (12152, Bristol
Record Office)
Dyrham and Hinton
251
Subjects
Elberton
Filton
Development plan and survey including Filton by-pass, 1952-1965 (K193/55, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Frampton Cotterell
Records of Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions including detailed account of highway repair rate,
Frampton Cotterell, 1753 (Q/SR/1753/C, Gloucestershire Archives)
Frenchay
Hanham Abbots
Henbury
Kingswood
Correspondence, reports and papers concerning Kingswood Urban District Council,
delegation of powers concerning certain classified roads, 1937 (C/AC/C3/20/2,
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Subjects
Little Sodbury
Archives)
Mangotsfield
Correspondence, reports and papers concerning compulsory purchase of land for highway
improvement, Soundwell Road, 1936 (C/AC/C3/22/7, Gloucestershire Archives)
Plan of 15-17 St James Place, Mangotsfield, relating to highways, [undated] (C/AH/P47,
Old Sodbury
Archives)
Oldland
Bridges including Willsbridge Bridge, Oldland, [undated] (C/AH/C1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Project on the construction of the Second Severn Crossing, 1993-1996 (D9947, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Stoke Gifford
253
Subjects
Tytherington
Records of the Highways Department of Gloucestershire County Council including
correspondence, reports and papers concerning common rights at The Hill, Tytherington, 1937
Warmley
Correspondence, reports and papers concerning Warmley Rural District Council concerning
part of the B4427 (C/AC/C3/20/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps and plans of highways and bridges, including plans relating to the Lamb Inn, Warmley,
1957 (C/AH/P50, Gloucestershire Archives)
Westerleigh
Maps and plans relating to highways and bridges, including plans of Mayshill, Westerleigh,
A432 alterations to 291 Badminton Road, 1960 (C/AH/P44, Gloucestershire Archives)
Winterbourne
Yate
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Subjects
Utilities
Utilities - drainage and sewerage
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including records of the Court
of Sewers (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Survey of the Court of Sewers for the lower level of Gloucestershire, 1753 (21778, Bristol
Record Office)
Chipping Sodbury
Records of the Health Committee of Gloucestershire County Council including agreements for
compensation between landowners and Sodbury and Thornbury Rural District Councils
concerning sewerage pipes in Winterbourne and Stoke Gifford, 1942 (C/CM/A/6,
Filton
Records of the Health Committee of Gloucestershire County Council including Filton and Frome
Valley Sewerage works, Winterbourne, 1944 (C/CM/P/8, Gloucestershire Archives)
Henbury
Records of the Commissioners of Sewers, Lower Levels (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Kingswood
Records of the Health Committee of Gloucestershire County Council including:
Map showing Kingswood and Winterbourne sewerage lines, [undated] (C/CM/P/1,
Little Sodbury
Mangotsfield
Gloucestershire County Council Committee papers including plans of Mangotsfield's sewers,
1937 (C/CC/W/1/58, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Subjects
Marshfield
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Marshfield sewerage, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SB1/6,
Water and sewerage schemes including Marshfield, 1936-1970 (K181/1/3, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Old Sodbury
Records of the Commissioners of Sewers, Lower Levels (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Stoke Gifford
Thornbury
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Thornbury sewerage, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SB1/8,
Westbury-on-Trym
Records of Barton Regis Rural Sanitary Authority relating to Westbury-on-Trym sewers, 1887
Wick and Abson
concerning Wick and Abson sewerage, 1938-39 (K149/5, Gloucestershire Archives)
256
Subjects
Winterbourne
Map showing Kingswood and Winterbourne sewerage lines, [undated] (C/CM/P/1,
Yate
Plans of Goose Green, Yate [undated] (C/CM/P/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Yate sewerage, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SB1/7, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Utilities - electricity
Records of the South West Electricity Board (17843, 17844, 17845, 17847, Bristol Record
Office)
Bristol
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Bristol electricity, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SS/6a/4,
Chipping Sodbury
Bristol Electricity Extension (special order) concerning Chipping Sodbury Rural District Council
and Thornbury Rural District Council, 1929 (C/CC/Da/2/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Oldbury-on-Severn
Maps and plans of Oldbury-on-Severn nuclear power station, c.1960 (C/AP/P/2,
257
Subjects
Thornbury
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Thornbury and District Electric Co, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SS/6a/
9, Gloucestershire Archives)
Utilities - gas
Chipping Sodbury
Records of Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions including records of Chipping Sodbury Gas and
Coke Company, 1935-1944 (Q/RUc/9, Gloucestershire Archives)
Clifton
Records of Osborne Ward Vassall Abbot and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers relating
to Bristol and Clifton Oil Gas Company, 1824-1834 (12147, Bristol Record Office)
Thornbury
Records of the Thornbury Gas Light and Coke Co including correspondence and deeds
Utilities - water
Appointment of Severn Water Bailiff, 1924 (1146, Bristol Record Office)
Records relating to Somerset and Gloucestershire water supply (38678, Bristol Record Office)
Bristol
Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol relating to Clifton Water Works, 1809-1867 (12152,
Chipping Sodbury
Records of Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions including records concerning West
Gloucestershire water supply, 1883 (Q/RUm/458, Gloucestershire Archives)
258
Subjects
Compton Greenfield
Gloucestershire County Council Committee papers including plan for piped water to Compton
Greenfield, 1945 (C/CC/W/1/103, Gloucestershire Archives)
Dodington
Filton
Records of the Greenway family of Bristol, including papers relating to Filton water supply,
undated (22936, Bristol Record Office)
Frampton Cotterell
Hawkesbury
Gloucestershire County Council Committee papers including papers concerning Hawkesbury
water supply, 1938-41 (C/CC/W/1/67, Gloucestershire Archives)
concerning Hawkesbury water supply, 1938-39 (K149/5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Kingswood
Kingswood and Warmley Joint Sewerage Committee: minutes, 1898-1964, and accounts,
1936-1970 (DA8, Gloucestershire Archives)
Thornbury
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Thornbury Rural District Council water supply, c.1940-45 (C/AP/
R/1/SS/6b/18, Gloucestershire Archives)
Warmley
Kingswood and Warmley Joint Sewerage Committee: minutes, 1898-1964, and accounts,
1936-1970 (DA8, Gloucestershire Archives)
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Warmley Rural District electricity, c.1940-45
(C/AP/R/1/SS/6a/10, Gloucestershire Archives)
259
Subjects
Westerleigh
Yate
Records of Ladden Brook Commissioners of Sewers, later Yate Internal Drainage Board
260
Subjects
Wills
Wills and inventories proved in the Consistory Court of the Diocese of Gloucester between 1541
and 1858. A name index to the wills and inventories proved in the Diocese between 1541 and
1858 forms part of Gloucestershire Archives’ Genealogical Database.
Wills proved in the Consistory Court of the Diocese of Bristol, for the City and Deanery of
Bristol, between 1546 and 1858, and registered copies of wills proved in the Bristol District
Probate Registry between 1858 and 1941 are held at Bristol Record Office.
The Great Orphan Book, a register of the Bristol Court of Orphans, contains copies of wills
pertaining to the estates of orphans in Bristol, 1379-1595, and is held at Bristol Record Office.
The wills in that volume were proved in various courts, including the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury, Lambeth, Wells, Worcester and the Bristol Court of Orphans.
Stray copies of wills may exist in estate and family, solicitors’, charity and parish collections.
Indexes to all wills proved after 1858 are held at the local probate offices in both Gloucester and
Bristol. Registered copies of wills proved in the Gloucester District Probate Registry between
1858 and 1941 are kept at Gloucestershire Archives; registered copies of wills proved in the
Bristol District Probate Registry between 1858 and 1941 are kept at Bristol Record Office.
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Sources listed by place
South Gloucestershire/Avon.......................................................................................................265
Acton Turville..............................................................................................................................272
Almondsbury...............................................................................................................................277
Alveston......................................................................................................................................287
Aust.............................................................................................................................................293
Avonmouth..................................................................................................................................300
Barton Regis...............................................................................................................................303
Bitton...........................................................................................................................................305
Bristol..........................................................................................................................................314
Charfield.....................................................................................................................................324
Chipping Sodbury.......................................................................................................................330
Clifton..........................................................................................................................................342
Coalpit Heath..............................................................................................................................349
Cold Ashton................................................................................................................................354
Compton Greenfield...................................................................................................................359
Cromhall.....................................................................................................................................363
Dodington...................................................................................................................................369
Downend.....................................................................................................................................375
Doynton......................................................................................................................................380
Dyrham and Hinton.....................................................................................................................385
Elberton......................................................................................................................................391
Falfield........................................................................................................................................396
Filton...........................................................................................................................................402
Fishponds...................................................................................................................................410
Frampton Cotterell......................................................................................................................412
Frenchay.....................................................................................................................................423
Great Badminton........................................................................................................................428
Hanham Abbots..........................................................................................................................433
Hawkesbury................................................................................................................................439
Henbury......................................................................................................................................447
Hill...............................................................................................................................................456
Horfield.......................................................................................................................................461
For an explanation of the subject headings please see the
‘Subjects’ section of this guide
262
Places
Horton.........................................................................................................................................467
Iron Acton...................................................................................................................................472
Kingswood..................................................................................................................................479
Little Sodbury..............................................................................................................................489
Littleton-upon-Severn.................................................................................................................496
Mangotsfield...............................................................................................................................501
Marshfield...................................................................................................................................511
Old Sodbury................................................................................................................................518
Oldbury-on-Severn.....................................................................................................................526
Oldland.......................................................................................................................................536
Olveston......................................................................................................................................540
Patchway....................................................................................................................................547
Pilning and Severn Beach..........................................................................................................551
Pucklechurch..............................................................................................................................558
Rangeworthy...............................................................................................................................564
Redland......................................................................................................................................569
Rockhampton..............................................................................................................................573
St George, Bristol.......................................................................................................................578
St Philip and St Jacob, Bristol....................................................................................................584
Shirehampton.............................................................................................................................587
Siston..........................................................................................................................................592
Soundwell...................................................................................................................................597
Southmead.................................................................................................................................601
Stapleton.....................................................................................................................................604
Stoke Bishop...............................................................................................................................610
Stoke Gifford...............................................................................................................................614
Thornbury...................................................................................................................................620
Tormarton...................................................................................................................................633
Tortworth.....................................................................................................................................638
Tytherington................................................................................................................................643
Wapley and Codrington..............................................................................................................648
Warmley......................................................................................................................................653
Westbury-on-Trym......................................................................................................................659
Westerleigh.................................................................................................................................666
Wick and Abson..........................................................................................................................673
Wickwar......................................................................................................................................679
Winterbourne..............................................................................................................................686
263
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Winterbourne Down....................................................................................................................695
Yate............................................................................................................................................699
264
Places
South Gloucestershire was created in 1996 from the parishes in Avon which had formerly been
in the ancient county of Gloucestershire. For a more detailed explanation of the administrative
history of the area, please see the introduction to this guide.
Records of Northavon District Council, including development plans and footpath maps,
1923-1996 (DC85, DC89, DC93, DC104, DC110, DC126, DC132, DC147, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of South Gloucestershire Youth Civic Council, 1946- 1958 (DA8, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of South Gloucestershire Council, including local government reorganisation reports
and papers, 1990s (DC125, Gloucestershire Archives)
Charities
Records of the Forest of Avon Partnership (43848/Ad/1/2, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Deeds
Records of Meade King and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in South
Gloucestershire (33748, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Osborne Ward Vassall and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in
South Gloucestershire, 17th-19th centuries (D1697, Gloucestershire Archives)
Diocesan records
Consecration papers for parishes within the diocese, 19th- 20th centuries (GDR/F2,
265
Places
Faculties for all the parishes within the diocese, 17th to 21st centuries (GDR/F1,
Court papers for parishes within the diocese, 16th to 20th centuries (GDR/B4,
Minutes of the Avon Joint Diocesan Education committee, 1982-1983 (GDR/A17/10/6,
Archives)
Roe's Marriage indexes covering various parishes, 1813-1837 (GDR/Q14, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Schedule of bells for preservation in the Diocese of Gloucester, 1983 (GDR/A17/9/1,
School instruments of management and details of composition of governing bodies relating to
schools in Avon, 1949-1982 (GDR/A17/10/41, Gloucestershire Archives)
Electoral records
Records of Gloucestershire County Council electors, including electoral registers 1889-1919
complete except for St George West, 1894, Westbury-on-Trym, 1905 and 1906, Charfield,
1897, Oldland 1898, Hawkesbury, 1909. From 1905 Horfield, Shirehampton and Westbury-onTrym come under Bristol (C/CC/R/6, R/7, Gloucestershire Archives)
Tree preservation orders, listed by parish and place, 1948-1974 (C/CP/O/3, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Archives)
Archives)
Records of Joint Committees of Gloucestershire County Council, including:
266
Places
Rural Housing surveys of Sodbury, Thornbury and Warmley areas, 1945-47 (C/CJ/5/R/2,
Papers concerning agricultural land lost since 1945 and land required in World War II,
including:
Records of the Medical Officer of Health for Gloucestershire including:
Reports of the South Gloucestershire Medical Officer of Health Joint Committee, 1953-1972
(C/AM/R2/14, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the South West Regional Health Authority (40837, Bristol Record Office)
South Gloucestershire Joint Medical Officer of Health Committee minutes, 1937-1953 (DA8,
Records of Dancey and Meredith of Gloucester, architects, including papers relating mainly to
commercial and industrial premises in Gloucestershire and surrounding counties, c.1938-1975
Records of Fulljames and Waller of Gloucester, architects, including papers concerning their
work as County Surveyors and Surveyors to the Diocese of Gloucester, covering the South
Gloucestershire area, 1832-1906 (D1381, D2593, D2752, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gifford, Harry Stoke, Coalpit Heath, Westerleigh, Filton and Wickwar Collieries, 1933-1991
Records of Burges, Salmon and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers relating to the South
Gloucestershire area (40154, Bristol Record Office)
Records of David Lees and Co of Bristol, solicitors (43116, Bristol Record Office)
267
Places
Industry, trade and business - tradesmen
Records of firm of South Gloucestershire carriers and hauliers, 1724-1760 [name unknown]
G W Braikenridge Collection of manuscripts and cuttings relating to the South Gloucestershire
area (8379, 9965, 3080, Bristol Reference Library)
Local history material relating to the South Gloucestershire area (search the Locate online
catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Manuscript list of villages, hamlets etc in a circuit of 12 miles around Bristol, by E Shiercliff,
1793 (10454, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of Irvine Gray, former County Archivist of Gloucestershire, relating to 'Antiquaries of
Gloucestershire and Bristol', published by the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological
Society, 1981 (D4703, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of L D Wingate of Cheltenham, local historian, including diaries of visits to villages and
churches in the South Gloucestershire area, 1927-1937 (D5537, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps
Architect's drawings of caretakers' houses for various schools in Gloucestershire 1955-1960
Map of Bristol coalfields and country adjacent, by W Sanders, 1862 (3905, Bristol Reference
Library)
Archives)
Archives)
Records of the Civil Defence Committee of Gloucestershire County Council, 1930s-1940s
(C/CDa/V, Gloucestershire Archives)
Defence including:
Air Raid Warning Posts, training and history, 1938-1945 (C/ACDa1-3, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Schemes, organisation recruitment, trainingand premises, 1938-1959 (C/ACDb,
Newspapers
Western Daily Press, 1858 onwards (available at Bristol Central Library)
268
Places
Nonconformists
Report of the Congregational Union of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire concerning the
ministerial education of rural pastors, 1862 (1418, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of South Gloucestershire Methodist Circuit (35230, Bristol Record Office)
Photographs
Photographs and postcards of places in South Gloucestershire, 19th-21st centuries (GPS,
Archives)
Archives)
Sale particulars
property in South Gloucestershire (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Schools
Diocesan Inspectors of Schools' reports, 1872-1928 (GDR/S3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Register of Church elementary schools for whole diocese, 1935-1983 (GDR/A17/10/30,
Archives)
269
Places
Archives)
transmitted to the Registrar, 1750-1828, including:
Female Friendly Society, 1802-1828 (Q/RSf/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
South Gloucestershire Friendly Society, 1825 (Q/RSf/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Gloucestershire Rural Community Council (D3168, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Association of Local Government Officers (NALGO), relating to the
South Gloucestershire area (D2699, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Northavon Labour Party, formerly South Gloucestershire Labour Party and
Thornbury Division Labour Party, 1926-1975 (D8635, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Avon County Scout Association (40638 (uncatalogued), Bristol Record Office)
Records of Girl Guiding in South Gloucestershire, 1908-2010 (40825, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Avon Liberal Party (44071, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Gloucestershire Football Association, 1980s-2000s (40210/3/14, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of the Avon Federation of Women's Institutes (43553, Bristol Record Office)
Plans and schemes for public undertakings affecting most of the South Gloucestershire
parishes and the city of Bristol, involving capital investment from private sources requiring the
assent of Parliament, 18th-20th centuries (Q/RUm, Gloucestershire Archives)
270
Places
Archives)
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including records of the Court
of Sewers (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Survey of the Court of Sewers for the lower level of Gloucestershire, 1753 (21778, Bristol
Record Office )
Records of the South West Electricity Board (17843, 17844, 17845, 17847, Bristol Record
Office)
Utilities - water
Appointment of Severn Water Bailiff, 1924 (1146, Bristol Record Office)
Records relating to Somerset and Gloucestershire water supply (38678, Bristol Record Office)
271
Places
Acton Turville
Acton Turville is an ancient parish.
It is in the hundred of Lower Grumbald's Ash, and was in the Poor Law Union of Chipping
Sodbury. It was in the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1974, and the Avon Division from 1974.
It was in the Petty Sessions Division of Sodbury until 1982, and since then has been in the Petty
Sessions Division of North Avon; it was covered by Sodbury Highway Board.
For local government purposes, it was in the Rural Sanitary Authority of Chipping Sodbury, then
Chipping Sodbury Rural District, 1895-1935, and Sodbury Rural District, 1935-1974. It was in
the Northavon District of the County of Avon between 1974 and 1996, when it became part of
the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire.
For parliamentary purposes it was in the Western Division, 1834-1884, the Thornbury Division,
1885-1948, the South Gloucestershire Division 1949-1974, and was transferred to the Avon
Division in 1975.
It is in the Diocese of Gloucester, and in the Deanery of Hawkesbury.
Records of Sodbury Rural District Council (DA33, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including Acton Turville, papers relating to burial
ground, 1909 - 1910 (GDR/F6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Acton Turville (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Records of the County Coroner, Lower Division (CO1, CO8, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Sodbury Petty Sessions Division (PS/SO, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of North Avon (or Avon North) Petty Sessions Division (PS/AV, Gloucestershire
Archives)
272
Places
Deeds
Deeds of property in Acton Turville (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Bircham and Co of London, solicitors, including deed of property in Acton Turville,
Records of Forrester and Forrester of Chippenham (Wiltshire), solicitors, including deeds of
property in Acton Turville, 1673-1755 (D7879, Gloucestershire Archives)
Diocesan records
Glebe terriers and inventories for Acton Turville, 1584-1704, 1914, 1948 (GDR/V5,
Nominations to the parish of Acton Turville, 1870, 1887, 1888, 1892 (GDR/D2,
Presentations to the parish of Acton Turville, 1584-1850, 1937, 1949 (GDR/D1,
Presentations to the parish of Tormarton with Acton Turville and West Littleton, 1548-1882
(GDR/D1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Quinquennial inspection reports for Acton Turville, 1997 (GDR/A17/2/124/4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Instrument fixing table of fees for Acton Turville, 1914 (GDR/V12, Gloucestershire Archives)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Acton Turville, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Acton Turville (C/CC/
B, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Local history material relating to Acton Turville, including books, pamphlets, articles,
photographs, prints and postcards (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
273
Places
Maps
Survey and valuation of arms, Badminton estate, Acton Turville, c.1800, (uncatalogued)
Nonconformists
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Acton Turville (P4,
Photographs
Photographs and postcards of Acton Turville (browse the online catalogue Gloucestershire
Archives)
including:
Records of Sodbury Rural District Council, including:
Police force photograph album of scenes of road accidents in Chipping Sodbury Division,
1929-1950 (Q/Y, Gloucestershire Archives)
Poor relief
274
Places
Records of Sodbury Poor Law Union (G/SO, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars
Sale particulars of furniture and effects at Portcullis House, Acton Turville, 1967 (RF4.1GS,
Schools
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Acton Turville,
Land Tax assessment returns for Acton Turville, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Surveyor’s Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including:
Definitive Maps of footpaths under National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1947,
and related papers (K687, Gloucestershire Archives)
275
Places
Archives)
Records of Sodbury Highway Board (HB15, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wills
Wills and inventories proved in the Diocese of Gloucester, 1541-1858 (GDR wills,
Registered copies of wills proved in the Gloucester District Probate Registry, 1858-1941
(available via the searchroom, Gloucestershire Archives)
Registered copies of wills proved in the Bristol District Probate Registry, 1858-1941 (available
via the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
276
Places
Almondsbury
Almondsbury is an ancient parish. It includes Catbrain, Cribbs Causeway, Earthcott Green,
Easter Compton, Gaunts Earthcott, Hempton, the Lea, Lower Tockington, Marsh Common and
Over. It formerly included Patchway.
It is in the hundreds of Lower Berkeley, Lower Langley and Swinehead, and Lower Thornbury,
and was in the Poor Law Union of Thornbury. It was in the Lower Coroners’ Division,
1844-1974, and the Avon Division from 1974. It is in the Petty Sessions Division of Thornbury,
and was covered by Thornbury Highway Board.
For local government purposes, it was in the Rural Sanitary Authority of Thornbury, then
Thornbury Rural District, 1895-1974. It was in the Northavon District of the County of Avon
between 1974 and 1996, when it became part of the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire.
1885-1948, the Stroud and Thornbury Division, 1949-1954, the South Gloucestershire Division,
1955-1974, and was transferred to the Avon Division in 1975.
It was in the Diocese of Gloucester between 1541 and 1897; since 1897 it has been in the
Diocese of Bristol. It was in the Deanery of Bristol, 1541-1860, Bristol Rural, 1860-1886,
Stapleton, 1886-1927, and Almondsbury from 1927.
Records of Thornbury Rural District Council (DA38, Gloucestershire Archives)
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Almondsbury (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Charities
concerning Henbury Church Lands, relating to Easter Compton (35749, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Marsh Common Trustees (D895, Gloucestershire Archives)
Coroners
Records of Thornbury Petty Sessions Division (PS/TH, Gloucestershire Archives)
277
Places
Deeds
Deeds of property in Almondsbury, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
searchroom, Bristol Record Office )
Deeds of property in Almondsbury, 1639-1772 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Patchway (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bobbets, Harvey and Gore of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of the Over Court
Records of Bristol City Council, including leases of property in Almondsbury, 16th and 17th
centuries (BCC/F/E/1, Bristol Record Office )
Tockington, 13th century-18th century (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Record Office and Bristol Central Library)
Copy deeds of the Tockington Estate, 1698-1856, from the Peach family of Tockington
Deeds of property in Almondsbury and Tockington (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Earthcott Green,
including deeds and related papers relating to property in The Lea and Gaunts Earthcott, 17th
-20th centuries (32395, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Mullings Ellett and Co of Cirencester, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Almondsbury, 1742-1904, from the Chester-Master family of Cirencester and Almondsbury
related papers of property in Almondsbury, 1580-1832 (12148, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Chester family including deeds and related papers of property in Almondsbury,
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Almondsbury (D4018,
property in Almondsbury, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Player family of South Gloucestershire, including deeds of property in Gaunts
Earthcott and Tockington (D5090, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Prosser family and predecessors of Almondsbury, including deeds of property in
Almondsbury, c.1660-1959 (D12029, Gloucestershire Archives)
Diocesan records
278
Places
Records of Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance relating to Almondsbury Conference House
Orders in Council, 1844-1909, relating to parishes in Almondsbury (GDR/V7, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Almondsbury, 1872 (GDR/D13,
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Almondsbury, 1832-1954 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Office)
History of the Chester-Master family of Almondsbury and Cirencester, 2007 (D11516,
Holiday journal of Miss M C Lloyd of Over Court, Almondsbury, 1873 (D9487, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Arnold, Cooper and Tompkins of Chichester, solicitors, including records of the
Cann Lippincott trust (37974, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bobbets, Harvey and Gore of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds relating to the Cann
Lippincott trust (40036, Bristol Record Office)
Papers of the Cann-Lippincott family of Almondsbury (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Peach family of Tockington, 1698-1890 (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Ward family of Tockington (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning an estate at Cribbs Causeway (35447, Bristol Record Office)
Papers concerning Catsbrain, Charlton Lane (35447, Bristol Record Office)
including survey of Lea tithing, Gaunts Earthcott, 1783 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Mullings Ellett and Co of Cirencester, solicitors, including records of the ChesterMaster family of Cirencester and Almondsbury, 1742-1930 (D1388, Gloucestershire Archives)
The Clifton Wood Collection, relating to Tockington, 1638-1884 (12160, Bristol Record
Office)
279
Places
Papers of the Miles and Southwell families 1528-1852 (12154, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Records of the Chester family including estate papers relating to Hortham Farm and Court
Farm, 1808-1820 (99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 8928, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Danvers family of Thornbury relating to Gaunts Earthcott and Tockington
Records of the Prideaux family of Bristol relating to Over, 1602-1928 (20535, Bristol Record
Office)
Archives), including:
Almondsbury and Cribbs Causeway roundabout, 1962 (C/CC/B/1315, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Oaklands, Almondsbury, 1950 (C/CC/B/529, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Records of Almondsbury Memorial Hospital (40172, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Southmead Health Authority, including Almondsbury Hospital (39880, Bristol Record
Office)
Inclosure
280
Places
including:
Office)
Records of the County Clerk's Department of Gloucestershire County Council, including:
Cases sent to Counsel for legal opinion including Tockington Quarry, 1890-91 (C/CC/L/5,
Industry, trade and business - manufacturing and engineering
Shortwood Brick Company, Over Lane, Almondsbury: correspondence, 2000 (D9109,
Local history material relating to Almondsbury, including books, pamphlets, articles, maps,
Records of Dr O Griffiths of Gloucestershire, historian (D2197, Gloucestershire Archives)
Manorial records
Records of the Cann Lippincott family of Over Court, Almondsbury, including deeds and other
records of the manors of Over, Brokenborough, Hempton and Caddibroke, late 18th centurymid 19th century (D10904, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Chester family concerning the manor of Almondsbury, 1767-1771 (99, 100, 101,
102, 103, 8928, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Manor Court of Bristol, including manor court book, 1509-1663, including the
manors of Gaunts Earthcott and Lea (BCC/J/Leet, Bristol Record Office )
to the manor of Tockington, 1681-1751 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Survey of the Manor of Almondsbury, 1536 (11372, Bristol Record Office )
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Maps
Architect's drawings of Almondsbury Motorway Police Station, 1965 (D10706, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Gloucestershire County Council, Planning Department, including:
Archives)
John J de Wilstar's book of surveys, including Gaunts Earthcott, 1742 (04480, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including map of
including:
Maps and plans relating to the manors of Tockington and Hempton and Patchway,
Maps and plans relating to Tockington and Marsh Common, Almondsbury, 1825 and 1838
Maps and surveys relating to property in The Lea and Gaunts Earthcott, 17th -20th centuries
Office)
Records of the Cann Lippincott family of Over Court, Almondsbury, including map showing
lands, giving names of occupiers, 1864 (D10904, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Bridges, including:
Third edition Ordnance Survey maps of Tockington and Rudgeway, 1923 (35192, Bristol
Record Office)
282
Places
Account of militia manoeuvres from Almondsbury to Gloucester and Westbury, (1759) (TRS9,
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including papers concerning occupation of
Woodhouse, Almondsbury, by Bristol Aeroplane Company, 1942 (D4365, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Nonconformists
Parish Councils
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Almondsbury, 1935-1945
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Almondsbury from
1653 (P/ALM, Bristol Record Office )
Photographs
Photographs and postcards of Almondsbury (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
including:
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Places
Records of Thornbury Rural District Council, including:
Records of Gloucestershire Police including police station diary for Cribbs Causeway (Q/Y,
Records of Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions including petitions from parishes representing that
a Rural Police Force is unnecessary, 1841-1842 (Q/AP/8/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Poor relief
Records of Thornbury Poor Law Union (G/TH, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars
Records of Gloucestershire County Council Education Committee, including correspondence
concerning sale particulars of Over Court Farm, 1944-46 (C/CE/C/7, Gloucestershire Archives)
including sale particulars relating to property in The Lea and Gaunts Earthcott, 17th -20th
property in Gaunts Earthcott, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Sale particulars of Over Court, properties in Over and manors of Over Hempton and Patchway,
Almondsbury, 1831 (RX11.2GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of property in Almondsbury, including the Swan Inn, 1878 (RX11.3GS,
Sale particulars of the Knole Park Estate, 1920 (RV11.1GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of Woodhouse Farm, Almondsbury, 1958 (RQ11.4GS, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Schools
concerning new infants' school, Patchway, 1946 (C/CE/C/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Easter Compton County Infants' School (S9, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Easter Compton Primary School (S9, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Places
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Almondsbury,
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Almondsbury (D2186,
Frenchay Cricket Club: photograph of match between 1st XI and Almondsbury, 1973 (D10130,
Records of Olveston Historical Society relating to Tockington (D2604, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessment returns for Almondsbury, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessments for Almondsbury, 1797, Gaunts Earthcott, 1796-1800, Hempton and
Patchway, 1796-1797, 1800, Lower Tockington, 1797, 1798, 1800, and Over, 1797, 1800
285
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Archives)
Kingswood Borough Council: photographs of the motorway interchange at Almondsbury
[undated] (DC115, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Lawfords Gate Highway Board (HB10, Gloucestershire Archives)
Correspondence, reports and papers concerning temporary road closure Woodland Lane,
Almondsbury (C/AC/C3/22/19, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps of plans of highways and bridges, including improvement at Pilning Vicarage to B4064
Redwick-Cribbs Causeway, 1950 (C/AH/P/40, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Thornbury Highway Board (HB19, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wills
Wills and inventories proved in the Deanery and Archdeaconry of Bristol, 1546-1858 (available
in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
286
Places
Alveston
Alveston is an ancient parish. It includes Alveston Down and Rudgeway.
It is in the hundreds of Upper Langley and Swinehead and Lower Langley and Swinehead, and
was in the Poor Law Union of Thornbury. It was in the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1974,
and the Avon Division from 1974. It is in the Petty Sessions Division of Thornbury, and was
covered by Thornbury 1863 Highway Board.
Diocese of Bristol. It was in the Deanery of Bristol Rural, 1860-1886, Stapleton, 1886-1927,
and Almondsbury from 1927.
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Alveston (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Deeds
Deeds of property in Alveston (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Alveston, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Rudgeway (35192, Bristol Record Office)
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Places
Alveston (D1606 , Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Alveston, from the
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Alveston (D4018,
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Alveston (D4365,
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Alveston (D866,
of property in Alveston (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Diocesan records
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Alveston, 1872 (GDR/D13,
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Alveston, 1832-1954 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
including papers concerning the estates of G A Fullerton, undated (32395, Bristol Record
Office)
Erection of police stations at Olveston, Hallen, Alveston and Patchway, 1954 (C/CC/B/844,
288
Places
Archives)
Inclosure
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including office papers of J M
Baxter, solicitor (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Local history material relating to Alveston, including books, pamphlets, articles, maps,
Records of Miss M Bruton of Oldbury-on-Severn, local historian (D4764, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Maps
Map of Alveston (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Map of Alveston, 19th century (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record
Office )
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including map of Alveston
including maps and plans of Alveston, 1809, 1840 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Thurstons and Setchell of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including estate
plan of Alveston, 1794 (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Third edition Ordnance Survey maps of Alveston and Rudgeway, 1923 (35192, Bristol Record
Office)
Record Office)
289
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Nonconformists
Records of the Frome Valley Methodist Circuit, including records of Alveston Down chapel
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Alveston from 1742
(P/Alv, Bristol Record Office )
Record Office)
Photographs
Photographs and postcards of Alveston (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
including:
Archives)
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Poor relief
Schools
Records of Alveston Church of England School (D4764, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Alveston, 1903
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Alveston (D2186,
Archives)
Land Tax assessment returns for Alveston, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessments for Alveston, 1797, 1800 (D12430, Gloucestershire Archives)
291
Places
Archives)
Plans, profiles and working drawings of the Alveston and Michael Wood Sections of the
Birmingham-East Brent Motorway (M5), part of the personal papers of the chief engineer,
Wills
292
Places
Aust
Aust has been a civil parish since 1866; it was formerly in Henbury.
It is in the hundred of Upper Henbury, and was in the Poor Law Union of Thornbury. It was in
the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1974, and the Avon Division from 1974. It is in the Petty
Sessions Division of Thornbury, and was covered by Thornbury Highway Board.
It is in the Diocese of Bristol.
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Aust (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Deeds
Deed of manor and mansion house, buildings and land in Aust, 1710 (D10235, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deed of property in Aust, 1774 (D2462, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Aust, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
including:
Deeds and related papers relating to property in Aust, 17th -20th centuries (32395, Bristol
Record Office)
Deeds of property in Aust (31965, Bristol Record Office)
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Places
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Aust (28048, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Aust (D4365,
Diocesan records
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Henbury (with Aust and
Northwick), 1872 (GDR/D13, Gloucestershire Archives)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Aust, 1832-1954 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Office)
Archives)
Records of the Sampson-Way family relating to Aust Passage, 1846 (36553, Bristol Record
Office)
294
Places
Local history material relating to Aust, including books, pamphlets, articles, maps, photographs
and prints (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Manorial records
to the manor of Aust, 1624-1664 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Maps
Map of Aust (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including:
Maps and plans relating to Aust, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and surveys relating to property in Aust, 17th -20th centuries (32395, Bristol Record
Office)
Archives)
Photograph of ambulance unit outside Aust School with young men in military uniform,
Parish Councils
Records of Aust Parish Council, 1894-2000 (P28a, Gloucestershire Archives)
295
Places
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Aust (P/Au, Bristol
Record Office )
Photographs
Archives)
Photographs of Aust (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
including:
Poor relief
Sale particulars
including sale particulars relating to property in Aust, 17th -20th centuries (32395, Bristol
Record Office)
Schools
Records of Aust Church of England School (S28, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Aust Infants’ School, 1884-1908 (S28/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Aust, 1903
296
Places
Land Tax assessment returns for Aust, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessments for Aust, 1797-1798 (D12430, Gloucestershire Archives)
Pamphlet concerning projected bridge over the Severn at Aust (Old) Passage, 1846; plan of
improved ferry from Aust to Beachley, undated (1643, 9805, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of the Astry family, including estate papers concerning Aust Ferry, 1650-1732 (AC,
Records of Vizard and Son of Monmouth, solicitors, including papers of the Ducarel and Bevan
families of Newland, concerning Old Passage Ferry, Aust, 1813-1881 (D637, Gloucestershire
Archives)
297
Places
Records of the Highways Committee of Gloucestershire County Council including:
Archives)
Archives)
Papers concerning the Severn Bridge, 1936-1960 (C/AF/C/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps and plans of highways and bridges, including Hill House Farm, Aust, 1963 (C/AH/P12,
Severn Bridge Act, 1935 (C/CC/Da/1/31, Gloucestershire Archives)
298
Places
Wills
299
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Avonmouth
Avonmouth has been an ecclesiastical parish since 1917; it was formerly in Shirehampton.
It is in the hundred of Barton Regis and was in the Poor Law Union of Barton Regis. It was
covered by Lawfords Gate Highway Board.
For local government purposes, it was in the Rural Sanitary Authority of Barton Regis,
1875-1895, then Barton Regis Rural District, 1895-1904 and Bristol County Borough from 1904.
1885-1917, and the Bristol Parliamentary Borough from 1917.
Charities
Records of Bristol Municipal Charities relating to Avonmouth Estate, 1921 (33041, Bristol
Record Office)
Deeds
Avonmouth, mainly 19th century (22936, Bristol Record Office)
Diocesan records
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Avonmouth, 1832-1917 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Industry, trade and business – general
Plan of Royal Edward and Avonmouth Docks, [20th century] (43659, Bristol Record Office)
Industry, trade and business – brewing and public houses
Records of Constellation Europe, formerly Matthew Clark and Sons Ltd and originally John
Harvey, wine producer and warehouse, c.1964-2009 (44160, 44448, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Sevalco, formerly Philblack, Avonmouth, chemical works, c.1950-c.2009 (44123,
300
Places
Local history material relating to Avonmouth, including books, pamphlets, articles, maps and
postcards (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps
Newspapers
Bristol Guardian, 1902 onwards (available at Bristol Central Library)
Photographs
Postcards of Avonmouth (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of St Andrew's Lodge of Freemasons, Avonmouth, 1895-2007 (D12482,
Land Tax assessment returns for Avonmouth, 1780-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
301
Places
Wills
302
Places
Barton Regis
Barton Regis was a Hundred, a Rural Sanitary District, a Rural District and a Poor Law Union.
The Hundred included the Bristol parishes of St George, St James, St James and St Paul
outparish, St Paul, St Philip and St Jacob, the Clifton parish of St Andrew, and the parishes of
Mangotsfield and Stapleton.
The Rural Sanitary District, 1875-1894, included the parishes of Compton Greenfield, Filton,
Henbury, Horfield, Shirehampton, Stoke Gifford, Westbury-on-Trym and Winterbourne.
The Rural District, 1894-1904, included the parishes of Henbury, Shirehampton, Stoke Gifford,
Westbury-on-Trym and Winterbourne.
The Poor Law Union, 1836-1904, included the Bristol parishes of St George, St James and St
Paul outparish, and St Philip and St Jacob outparish, the Clifton parish of St Andrew, and the
parishes of Compton Greenfield, Filton, Henbury, Horfield, Shirehampton, Stapleton, Stoke
Gifford, Westbury-on-Trym and Winterbourne.
Barton Regis Rural District Council byelaws, 1898 (C/CC/D/2/15, Gloucestershire Archives)
concerning Barton Regis Rural District Council, 19th century, (see person and place indexes in
Census
1881 census returns for Barton Regis Union (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Barton Regis
deeds of property in Barton Regis (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Manorial records
Records of the Chester family concerning Barton Regis Hundred and Court Leet, 1563-1802
303
Places
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers relating to the manor of Barton
Regis, 1829 (35447, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Kingswood History Society including copy survey of the manor of Barton Regis with
the hundred of Bristowell, (1553) (D7448, Gloucestershire Archives)
Poor relief
Records of the Greenway family of Bristol, including papers relating to Barton Regis Union,
mainly 19th century (22936, Bristol Record Office)
concerning Barton Regis Poor Law Union (known as Clifton Union before 1877) (22936, Bristol
Record Office )
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Bitton
Bitton is an ancient parish. It includes Swineford and Upton Cheyney. It formerly included
Hanham, Hanham Abbots, part of Kingswood, and Oldland (including Cadbury Heath, Longwell
Green and Willsbridge).
It is in the hundred of Upper Langley and Swinehead, and was in the Poor Law Union of
Keynsham. It was in the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1974, and the Avon Division from
1974. It was in the Petty Sessions Division of Sodbury until 1982, and since then has been in
the Petty Sessions Division of North Avon; it was covered by Lawfords Gate Highway Board.
For local government purposes, it was in the Rural Sanitary Authority of Keynsham, 1875-1895,
then Warmley Rural District, 1895-1974. It was in the Kingswood Borough of the County of
Avon between 1974 and 1996, when it became part of the unitary authority of South
Gloucestershire.
1885-1948, the South Gloucestershire Division, 1949-1970, the Kingswood Division,
Diocese of Bristol. It was in the Deanery of Hawkesbury, 1541-1860, Hawkesbury South,
1860-1886, and Bitton from 1886.
Records of Warmley Rural District Council (DA39, Gloucestershire Archives)
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Bitton (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Records of the County Coroner, John C Ball of Stroud (CO3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Lawfords Gate Petty Sessions Division (PS/LA, PS/SO, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Deeds
Abstracts of title of Rock House Farm, including plan, (1807)-1855 (D6810, Gloucestershire
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Places
Archives)
Deeds of Flowers House and Brice Fishers, Bitton, 1721-1815 (D1966, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Bitton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Bitton, 1695-1741/2 (D2139, Gloucestershire Archives)
Draft deeds of property in Bitton, 1814 (D83, Gloucestershire Archives)
Lease of cottage, 1752 (D1587, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Bobbets, Harvey and Gore of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Bitton
Bitton (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Bitton, from the
Records of Gregory Rowcliffe and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds relating to Bitton,
Bitton, 1759-1840 (D1987, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Marshfield Parish Council, including deeds of property in Bitton, 1702-1923 (P213a,
Records of Merrimans of Marlborough (Wiltshire), solicitors, including deeds of property in
Bitton, (c.1657)-1665 (D4769, Gloucestershire Archives)
related papers of property in Bitton, from the Miles family of Bristol, 1624-1858 (12151, Bristol
Record Office)
in Bitton, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office, and
Records of Sprott, Stokes and Turnbull of Shrewsbury, solicitors, including schedule of deeds of
property in Bitton, 1847 (D2279, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Stanley, Wasbrough and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds and related papers
of property in Bitton, 1795-1858 (D1859, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Stephenson, Harwood and Tatham of London, solicitors, including deeds of property
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in Upton Cheyney, 1830-1882, (D1794, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bitton 1796-1814 (D4316, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including deeds of property in Bitton, 1598-1798
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Bitton (D4018,
deeds of property in Bitton (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Howard family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Bitton, Upton
Cheyney and North Common (D108, Gloucestershire Archives)
property in Bitton, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Munro family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Bitton, 1762-19th century
Records of the Pearsall family of Bitton, including deeds of land in Bitton, 1695-1890 (D7217,
Records of the Willoughby family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Bitton, 1663-1741
Records of Veale, Benson and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds and related papers of
the Londonderry Farm estate in Bitton, 1652-1866 (D1964, Gloucestershire Archives)
Diocesan records
Glebe terriers and inventories for Bitton, 1613-1835 (GDR/V5, Gloucestershire Archives)
for temporary use for services usually during repairs to a church or chapel: Bitton, Holy
Trinity, schoolroom, 1852 (GDR/D18, Gloucestershire Archives)
List under "Rose's Act" of surviving parish registers and their place of deposit, for Bitton,
1813 (GDR/V4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Marriage licence papers of Joseph Been and Ann Bright of Bitton, 28 September 1736 (GDR/
Q13/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning parsonage house at Bitton, 1838 (GDR/F4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers relating to the appointment and licensing of parish clerks, for Bitton, 1758, 1823
(GDR/V13, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including patrons' petitions for Bitton 1796,
Presentations to the parish of Bitton, 1546-1850 (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Electoral records
Bristol poll books, 1715-1847 (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Electoral registers for Bitton, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Office)
Records of Clarke, Gwynn and Press of Bristol, solicitors, including papers of the CottesloeFreemantle family, 17th and 18th centuries (29542, 21782, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Newton family of Barrs Court, Bitton (D370, D1844, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Newton family of Barrs Court, Bitton, 1727-1759 (11376, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Stanley, Wasbrough and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including will of James Quarman of
Bitton, innkeeper, 1813-1848 (D1859, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire County Council orders affecting boundaries and wards including Bitton, 1960
Erection of Bitton Secondary Modern School, 1954 (C/CC/B/829, 829a, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Inclosure
308
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Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers concerning Hole Lane Colliery
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including agreement relating to coal mining, 1707
Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, including maps and plans of Golden Valley
Annotations to Ellacombe's history of Bitton (typescript), (1652)-[mid 20th century] (D1635,
H T Ellacombe Collection, including manuscripts and printed sources relating to Bitton and
Upton Cheyney, 1512-1896 (7380-7396, Bristol Reference Library)
Local history material relating to Bitton, including books, pamphlets, articles, maps,
Archaeological report on Sydenham Mead, Bitton, 2009 (D11847, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archaeological report on St Mary's Church, Bitton, 2009-2010 (D11858, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Pencil sketch of Bitton Church and Rectory, undated (D12012, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of C P Ketchley of Bitton, local historian (D1658, Gloucestershire Archives)
Scrapbooks covering Hanham, Bitton and Kingswood, 1940s-1960s (42562, Bristol Record
Office)
Manorial records
Court book of the prebendal manor of Bitton, 1664-1822 (24045, Bristol Record Office )
to the manor of Bitton, 1731-1749 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Maps
Architect's drawings of Bitton Secondary Modern School for Girls (now Sir Bernard Lovell
School), 1954-1955 (D10706, Gloucestershire Archives)
Map of Bitton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including maps and plans relating to Bitton, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including map showing land for coal working in Bitton,
Record Office)
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Minutes of a meeting of the inhabitants of Bitton concerning subscriptions for defence against
the French, with a list of subscribers, 1798 (D123, Gloucestershire Archives)
Nonconformists
be used as dissenters' meeting houses, Bitton, 1796 (GDR/N2, Gloucestershire Archives)
of numerous churches including Upton Cheyney, 1980s-1991 (D8988, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Parish Councils
Parish records
Lists of parish officers for Bitton, from 1652 (D1635, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Bitton (P/B, Bristol
Record Office )
Parish records of Bitton including map of glebe, 1821 (40226, Bristol Record Office )
Record Office)
Photographs
Photographs and postcards of Bitton (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
including:
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Oldland, Siston, Soundwell and Warmley, including:
Sale particulars
property in Bitton, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Schools
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including erection of Bitton
Secondary Modern School, 1954 (C/CC/B/829, 829a, Gloucestershire Archives)
schools including Bitton, 1902-1903 (C/AE/R/5/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Bitton, and
Upton Board School, 1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Upton Cheyney County Primary School (S48/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessment returns for Bitton, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessments for Bitton, 1798 (D12430, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Archives)
312
Places
Wills
313
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Bristol
Bristol has been a county borough since 1295. It includes the parishes of St Augustine, St Mary
Redcliffe, St James and St Peter. For the parishes of St George and St Philip and St Jacob,
see their individual entries.
Records of the City of Bristol (BCC, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Borough of Gloucester, including registers of recognizances relating to merchant
ships sailing from Bristol, 1643-1652 (GBR/G14, Gloucestershire Archives)
Coroners
Records of Gloucester County Court held at Bristol, including minutes, 1847-1890 (BCC/J,
Records of Lawfords Gate House of Correction (Q/Gla, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds
Deed of property in Bristol, 1654 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of parcel of meadow in Micklemead, 1767 (D2885, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Bristol, 1640-1659 (D21, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Bristol, 1838-1859, from the Ward family of Tockington (D1606,
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including:
Deeds of property in Bristol, from the Langton family of Bristol (D189, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Temple Street and elsewhere in Bristol, from the Langton family of
314
Places
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in St Stephen's, St
James Barton, Temple, Castle Green, Hotwells, Redcliffe and St James, Bristol (D4018,
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Bristol, including
property in the parishes of St James and St Paul (D4365, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Morton Grange Estate, Thornbury, including deeds of property in Bristol,
Records of the Stinchcombe family of Wickwar, including deeds of property in Bristol (D6621,
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including:
Deeds of property in Horse Fair, St James (D866, Gloucestershire Archives)
Diocesan records
Appointment of surrogates to act in Bristol, 1569; reports of the Gloucester and Bristol
Diocesan Association, 1858-1861, 1862-1865 and 1866-1869 (GDR/A14/9, GDR/A16/5,
Deanery receipt books for episcopal visitation, Bristol City, 1860 (GDR/C2/12,
Documents concerning the Diocese of Bristol, 1846-1897 (GDR/A6, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Letters and papers relating to the Bristol Diocesan Board of Education, 1852-1853 (GDR/V4,
for temporary use for services usually during repairs to a church or chapel: Bristol, St James,
schoolroom, 1864 (GDR/D18, Gloucestershire Archives)
List of [visitation] fees, Bristol archdeaconry, c.1850 (GDR/C2/11, Gloucestershire Archives)
List of institutions and Licensings, Bristol jurisdiction, 1865-1866 (GDR/D7/6, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Mandate from Archdeacon of Bristol to all in general to cite clergy and churchwardens to
appear at his visitation, 1861 (GDR/C3/70, Gloucestershire Archives)
Orders in Council, 1844-1909, relating to parishes in Bristol (GDR/V7, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Ordinands' papers including certificate of age of James Cumberland: copy of baptismal entry
in register of St. James, Bristol dated 25th. August 1704 (GDR/E3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefices in Bristol (GDR/D13,
Papers concerning parsonage houses at Bristol St Clement, 1898, St George, 1858, St Jude
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the Apostle, 1896, St Simon, 1897, St Thomas the Apostle, Eastville 1891 (GDR/F4,
Papers relating to Bristol Stipends Authority, 1981 (GDR/A17/2/63, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers relating to the appointment of Charles E Ponting as diocesan surveyor for the Bristol
archdeaconry, 1886-1896 (GDR/A10/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish papers, 1706-1944, including papers concerning the parishes of St Bartholomew,
1861; St Mary the Virgin, Tyndall's Park, 1873; St Matthew, Kingsdown; St Matthew,
Moorfields, 1873; St Silas, 1867; Martin Richard Whish, incumbent of Bristol St Mary
Redcliffe, Bristol St Thomas, Abbots Leigh and Bedminster, would not accept the Bishop's
jurisdiction, 1836-41 (GDR/V6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Presentations to the parish of Bristol, All Saints City, 1841 (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Archives)
Relaxations of the inhibitions during visitation, 1857 and 1860 (GDR/C3/67, GDR/C3/69,
Restraining parishes from exercising jurisdiction during the visitation, 1831 (GDR/C3/47,
Surveys of the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, (GDR/384, 385, GDR/A2/2, 3, 6,
GDR/A6/1-5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Administration of James Frye of Bristol, gentleman, 1806 (D2885, Gloucestershire Archives)
records relating to the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, Bristol based clubs, the Regent picture
house, Bristol, lease of wholesale ironmongers premises at 18 Old Market Street, Bristol, 1878
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including:
Papers relating to Bristol Harbour, 1767-1807 (D421, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers relating to the Knight family, 1742-1655 (D421, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Beaufort family of Badminton (D2700, Gloucestershire Archives), including:
Records relating to St Peter (D2700, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Places
Archives)
Records of the Chester and Chester-Master families of Almondsbury, relating to St Augustine's
Records of the Cumberland family of Bristol, 1778-1902 (D225, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Danvers family of Thornbury relating to Redcliffe and Bristol (D1928,
Records of the King family of Westbury-on-Trym, including apprenticeship indenture relating to
Milk Street, Bristol (D6213, Gloucestershire Archives)
Will of Peter Hickes of Kingsdown, Bristol, 1815 (D5400, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning University of Bristol research construction group, 1946-50 (K149/12,
Records of the Planning Department of Gloucestershire County Council relating to
'Gloucestershire, A Physical, Social and Economic Survey and Plan' by G E Payne, F.R.G.S.,
including:
Bristol Chamber of Commerce and Shipping, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SB1/9, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Bristol limestone beds, population, bus services, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SB1/10-18,
Port of Bristol, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SE/4/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol region, refuse collection and sub soil water, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SB1/1-3,
Archives)
317
Places
Records of Special Committees of Gloucestershire County Council including:
Bristol boundaries, 1894 (C/CX/M1/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol boundaries extension, 1895-1904 (C/CX/M3/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Bristol and Gloucester adjustment [boundaries], 1904 (C/CX/M1/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Correspondence and papers concerning proposed extension of boundaries of Bristol, 1946
(C/AC/L1/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
boroughs including Bristol County Borough, 1929-1937 (C/AC/C6/3/22, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Archives)
Development plan and survey including city of Bristol development plan, 1965-1970
Development plan and survey including school sites and building programmes Bristol area,
Papers concerning administration of planning in Bristol area, 1939-48 (K149/23,
318
Places
Industry, trade and business - banking
Records of the Hale family of Alderley, including records relating to Tyndale, Symmer, Worall
and Hale of Bristol, bankers, later known as the Exchange Bank, 1763-1796 (D1086,
Industry, trade and business - brewing and public houses
Records of Crossman and Thurston of Thornbury, solicitors, including records of R W Miller and
Co of Bristol, brewers and wine merchants (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Handel Cossham, colliery owner and MP for Bristol East, including:
Papers concerning the north end of the Bristol coalfields and education in Pucklechurch
c.1861 (3464, Bristol Reference Library)
Papers concerning Bristol coalfield, 1862-1884 (9492, Bristol Record Office)
concerning the Bristol coalfield, from the Player family of Bristol, 1719-1881 (12161, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including partnership deed
and papers relating to the Ward and Overbury Turpentine Works, Bristol, from the Ward family
of Tockington (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Blagden of Bristol, merchant, 1755-1756 (D1086, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Ford of Bristol, merchant, 1968-1973 (D5355, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Richard Pranchard of Bristol, merchant (P74, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps
including maps and plans relating to the Bristol coalfields and the Cave family (31965, Bristol
Record Office)
Archives)
319
Places
Archives)
Correspondence and reports on air raid incidents, including incidents in Bristol and Filton,
1940-1944 (C/CDa/V4/7-16, Gloucestershire Archives)
Defence including the Bristol Blitz, 1940-1941 (C/ACDa4/2-5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Newspapers
Bedminster Guardian, 1897-1902 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bonner and Middleton's Bristol Journal, 1774-1794 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol [Penny] Observer, 1859 onwards (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Advertiser, 1855-1859 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Daily Post, 1860-1878 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Echo, 1901-1909 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Evening News, 1877-1920 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Evening Post, 1932 onwards (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Evening Times [and Echo], 1904-1932 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Evening World, 1929-1962 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Express, 1911-1915 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Gazette, 1786-1789, 1819-1872 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Magpie, 1882-1911 (available at Bristol Central Library)
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Places
Bristol Mercury (daily), 1790-1909 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Mirror, 1808-1864 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Observer, 1819-1823 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Standard, 1839-1842 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Bristol Weekly Mercury, 1878-1909 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Felix Farley's Journal, 1752-1775, 1791-1853 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Fenley and Sheppard's Bristol Journal, 1804 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Sarah Farley's Bristol Journal, 1777-c.1799 (available at Bristol Central Library)
Nonconformists
Records of West Gloucestershire Sunday School Union (Interdenominational), including annual
report of Bristol Sunday School Union, with Treasurer's statement, 1933 (D6008,
Records of Bridge Street Congregational Church (MF1242, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs
Schools
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including letters relating to National education in
321
Places
Bristol, 1838-1841 (GDR/V4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Development plan and survey including school sites and building programmes in the Bristol
area, 1952-1973 (K193/73, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Records of Bristol and Gloucester Diocesan Church Bellringers' Association (D4137,
photographs c.1955-74 including Bristol Gliding Club (K371/36, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Rivers Committee of the Corporation of Bristol, 1791-1826 (BCC/A/2, Bristol
Record Office)
Maps and plans including Bristol Tramways Extension, 1904 (C/CC/P/7, Gloucestershire
Archives)
322
Places
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Bristol electricity, c.1940-45 (C/AP/R/1/SS/6a/4,
Utilities - water
Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol relating to Clifton Water Works, 1809-1867 (12152,
323
Places
Charfield
Charfield is an ancient parish.
It is in the hundred of Grumbalds Ash and was in the Poor Law Union of Thornbury. It was in
the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1974. It is in the Petty Sessions Division of Thornbury, and
was covered by Thornbury Highway Board.
Papers relating to Charfield burial ground, 1912 (GDR/F6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Consecration papers relating to Charfield churchyard extension, 1911-1912 (GDR/F2,
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Charfield (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Deeds
Deed of property in Charfield 1690/1 (D247, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Charfield, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
324
Places
Deeds of property in Charfield, 1619/20-1839 (D2180, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of Spring Cottage, 21 Station Road, 1817-1955 (D5409, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Charfield, (1682)-1816, from the Alway family of Iron Acton (D1606,
Deeds of property in Charfield, 1671-1870, from the Allway and Park families of Kingswood
Deeds of property in Charfield, from the Hopkins family of Wotton-under-Edge (D654,
Records of Slaughter and May of London, solicitors, including deeds and related papers of
property in Charfield, 1799-1967 (D6909, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Sotheron-Estcourt family of Shipton Moyne, including deeds and related papers
of property in Charfield, 1658-1851 (D1571, Gloucestershire Archives)
Diocesan records
Declaration of trust of investment for Charfield Church Sunday School, 1913 (GDR/A17/1/10,
Glebe terriers and inventories for Charfield, 1572-1818, 1914, 1948 (GDR/V5,
Grants of next presentation for Charfield 1567 (GDR/D3, Gloucestershire Archives)
List under "Rose's Act" of surviving parish registers and their place of deposit, for Charfield,
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Charfield, 1872 (GDR/D13,
Patrons’ petitions for Charfield 1750, 1804 (GDR/D4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Presentations to the parish of Charfield, 1574-1945 (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Quinquennial inspection reports for Charfield, 1995 (GDR/A17/2/124/74, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records relating to advowsons, Charfield, 1840, 1854, 1913 (GDR/D5, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Charfield, 1832-1954 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Places
Papers relating to Charfield, including testamentary papers, 1673-1870; reference book to OS
map of Charfield, 1880 (D2462, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Penley, Milward and Bayley of Dursley, solicitors, including papers concerning the
Hale family of Alderley, (1559)-1890 (D2078, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Goulter family of Charfield and Gloucester (reputed Huguenots and associates
of William Tyndale of North Nibley, translator of the Bible into English), including apprenticeship
indenture of Walter Frederick Goulter, engineer, 1888 (D8492, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Charfield (C/CC/B,
Inclosure
Local history material relating to Charfield, including books, pamphlets, articles, maps,
Maps
Baptism register including details of former occupation and present military service, 1914-1918
Warrants for the relief of the wives and families of militiamen, etc, 1797-1800 (P74,
Parish Councils
326
Places
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Charfield, 1935-1945
Records of Charfield Parish Council, 1894-2001 (P74a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish records
Parish papers including glebe terrier, 1721, bills and accounts for building poor house,
1784-1785, and for repairing bells, 1779 (D2462, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Charfield (P74,
Photographs
Photographs and postcards of Charfield (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
including:
Poor relief
Sale particulars
Sale conditions of property in Charfield, with map, 1834-1858 (D2180, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Schools
Records of Charfield Church of England School, including governors' and managers' papers,
Correspondence file relating to Charfield school site and buildings, 1970 (GDR/A17,
327
Places
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Charfield, 1903
Land Tax assessment returns for Charfield, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of British Rail and its predecessor bodies, including papers concerning Charfield, 19th
and 20th centuries (D8251, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Mr H E Hawker of Stonehouse, stationmaster and antiquary, including notes on local
railways, including the Charfield train disaster, 1928 (D9174, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucester Journal report on inquiry into the Charfield railway disaster, held at Gloucester
Guildhall, 1928, with photographs (B607/18310GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
328
Places
Records of Wotton-under-Edge Highway Board, 1864-1899 (HB22, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wills
329
Places
Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Sodbury is an ancient parish. It was also an ancient borough. It was amalgamated
with Old Sodbury to form Sodbury Civil Parish in 1946.
It is in the hundred of Lower Grumbalds Ash, and was in the Poor Law Union of Chipping
Sodbury. It was in the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1946. It was in the Petty Sessions
Division of Sodbury until 1982, and since then has been in the Petty Sessions Division of North
Avon; it was covered by Sodbury Highway Board.
For local government purposes, it was in the Rural Sanitary Authority of Chipping Sodbury, then
Chipping Sodbury Rural District, 1895-1935, and Sodbury Rural District, 1935-1974. It was in
the Northavon District of the County of Avon between 1974 and 1996, when it became part of
1885-1948, the Sodbury Division, 1949-1970, and the South Gloucestershire Division from
1970.
Chipping Sodbury Rural District Council byelaws, 1936, 1939 (C/CC/D/2/10, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Northavon District Council, including report on proposed conservation area,
c.1976-1992 (DC110, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Borough of Chipping Sodbury including borough court papers, rentals, accounts
and deeds c.1230-1959; overseers' papers 1610-1839 and census of borough 1795 (D2071,
Charities
Records of Chipping Sodbury United Charities, 1969-1999 (D8624, Gloucestershire Archives)
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Chipping Sodbury (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record
Office)
Coroners
Records of the County Coroner, John C Ball of Stroud (CO3, Gloucestershire Archives)
330
Places
Records of Chipping Sodbury County Court held at Bristol (BCC/J/Cty, Bristol Record Office )
Archives)
Deeds
Copy deeds of property in Chipping Sodbury, (1605-1665) (D2066, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Chipping Sodbury, 1688 (D185, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Chipping Sodbury, 15th century-20th century (see person and place
indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office )
Archives)
Archives)
Deeds of property in Chipping Sodbury, 19th and early 20th centuries (D8309, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Chipping Sodbury (41214, Bristol Record Office )
Records of Merriman, White and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in
in Chipping Sodbury, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record
Records of the Burcombe family of Chipping Sodbury, including deeds of property in Chipping
land and buildings in Chipping Sodbury adjoining the Swan Inn, 1910 (GDR/A17/1,
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Places
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Sodbury (D871, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Chipping Sodbury
Records of Webber, Bull and Naish of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of land in Chipping
Diocesan records
Chronological lists of incumbents, c.1914 including Chipping Sodbury, and curates,
1822-1968 (GDR/D19, Gloucestershire Archives)
Churchwardens’ presentments: Chipping Sodbury, 1681 (GDR/C4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Glebe terriers and inventories for Chipping Sodbury, 1680-1818, 1914, 1948 (GDR/V5,
Nominations to the parish of Chipping Sodbury, 1857, 1859, 1861, 1866, 1931, 1937
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Chipping Sodbury, 1872
Papers concerning parsonage house at Chipping Sodbury, 1860 and 1921 (GDR/F4,
Papers relating to the appointment and licensing of parish clerks, for Chipping Sodbury,
1777, 1799 (GDR/V13, Gloucestershire Archives)
Presentations to the parish of Chipping Sodbury, 1547-1856, 1877-1953 (GDR/D1,
Instrument fixing table of fees for Chipping Sodbury, 1923 (GDR/V12, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Chipping Sodbury, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Exemplification of judgement in dispute over public weigh scales, 1681 (D6521, Gloucestershire
Archives)
332
Places
Records of the Brooke family of Horton (D6267, D6662, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Burcombe family of Chipping Sodbury, including wills, 1670-1764 (D6267,
Thomas Porter of Chipping Sodbury: apprenticeship indenture, 1854 (D1846, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Establishment Register for Issue of Licences, Chipping Sodbury, 1927-1930 (C/AF/1/28/1,
Correspondence concerning Sodbury as a proposed new civil parish, 1938-1946
Chipping Sodbury Grammar School, 1936 (C/CC/B/247, Gloucestershire Archives)
Nurses' home at Kingrove, Chipping Sodbury, 1950 (C/CC/B/521, Gloucestershire Archives)
333
Places
Maps relating to land use and development in Chipping Sodbury, 1948-1969 (K1974,
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including nurses' home at
Kingrove, Chipping Sodbury, 1950 (C/CC/B/521, Gloucestershire Archives)
Letters testimonial in favour of midwives, for Chipping Sodbury 1712 (GDR/C8/2,
Records of the Medical Officer of Health for Gloucestershire including:
Reports of Sodbury Rural District Council Medical Officer of Health, 1938, 1940-52
(C/AM/R2/13, Gloucestershire Archives)
Inclosure
Industry, trade and business - general
Archives)
334
Places
Archives)
History of Old Sodbury, Little Sodbury and Chipping Sodbury, by F F Fox, 1907 (5680, Bristol
Reference Library)
Local history material relating to Chipping Sodbury, including books, pamphlets, articles, maps,
photographs and postcards (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of P Couzens of Sodbury, local historian (D6822, Gloucestershire Archives)
Manorial records
Archives)
Maps
Archives)
Bailiff's accounts, Chipping Sodbury, including payments to the Royal forces at the Siege of
335
Places
Gloucester, 1641-1643 (D2071, Gloucestershire Archives)
List of volunteers and militiamen in Chipping Sodbury, 1804 (D2071, Gloucestershire Archives)
Newscuttings relating to Chipping Sodbury War Memorial Hospital, 1939-1981 (D6822,
Papers concerning John Russell of Chipping Sodbury [Dodington Troop], 1935 (D4920,
Photograph of celebrations, [South African War],c.1902 (GPS/300/15, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Photographs of 494 Royal Army Service Corps at Chipping Sodbury, 1916 (D6822,
Archives)
Summons to George Drayton of Chipping Sodbury to serve as a militiaman, 1808 (Q/SR/1808/
A, Gloucestershire Archives)
Warrant to petty constables of North Nibley to summon the parish’s contingent for the trained
bands to appear near Chipping Sodbury, 1642 (D7115, Gloucestershire Archives)
Nonconformists
be used as dissenters' meeting houses, Chipping Sodbury, 1800 (GDR/N2, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Chipping Sodbury Baptist Church, 1708-2002 (D6154, D6717, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Parish Councils
336
Places
Parish records
Archives)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Chipping Sodbury
Transcript of survey of parish, (1795) (D2790, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs
Photographs of Chipping Sodbury, 1960-1961 (D3135, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs and postcards of Chipping Sodbury (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
including:
Plans of proposed police station, 1860 (D6298, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Chipping Sodbury Auxiliary Fire Service, 1930s-1970 (D8625, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Gloucestershire Police including:
Fines instalment ledgers for Chipping Sodbury police station (Q/Y, Gloucestershire Archives)
Police station offence books, Chipping Sodbury district, 1894-1928 (Q/Y, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Photograph album of scenes of road accidents in Chipping Sodbury Division, 1929-1950 (Q/
Y, Gloucestershire Archives)
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Places
Poor relief
Chipping Sodbury poor rate, 1795 (D1837, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars
Records of Fox and Sons of Southampton (Hampshire), estate agents, including sale particulars
and correspondence relating to The Elms Estate, Chipping Sodbury, 1960 (D6290,
Schools
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Chipping Sodbury
Grammar School, 1936 (C/CC/B/247, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of B S Tait of Gloucester and Tirley, architect, including papers concerning Chipping
Sodbury Grammar School, mid 20th century (D4969, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Chipping Sodbury Church of England School, 1867-1976 (S300, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of Chipping Sodbury Grammar School (P300, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Painters Mead School, 1984-1989 (S300/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
schools including Chipping Sodbury Grammar School, 1929-1930 (C/AE/R/5/45,
Archives)
Nominations of Schoolmaster of Chipping Sodbury Free Grammar School, 1737, 1819 (GDR/
S1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Chipping
Sodbury, 1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Chipping Sodbury
338
Places
Archives)
Photographs of BS17 Volunteers Link gala evening, Chipping Sodbury, 2000 (D8869,
Book of reference concerning Chipping Sodbury and Wick and Abson Allotments, 1891,
(Q/RUm/501, Gloucestershire Archives)
List of societies whose rules have been transmitted to the Registrar, 1787-1814 (Q/RSf/2,
Archives)
Archives)
Land Tax assessment returns for Chipping Sodbury, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire
Archives)
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Places
Records of British Rail and its predecessor bodies, including files relating to sale of railway
property in Chipping Sodbury, 1960s-1980s (D8251, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Archives)
Correspondence, reports and papers concerning improvement of highways and footpaths at
Chipping Sodbury Common, (1791)-1927 (C/AC/C3/22/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Agreements for compensation between landowners and Sodbury and Thornbury Rural
District Councils concerning sewerage pipes in Winterbourne and Stoke Gifford, 1942 (C/CM/
A/6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Utilities - gas
Records of Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions including records of Chipping Sodbury Gas and
Coke Company, 1935-1944 (Q/RUc/9, Gloucestershire Archives)
340
Places
Utilities - water
Wills
341
Places
Clifton
Clifton is an ancient parish. It includes the parishes of Christ Church, Emmanuel, Holy Trinity,
St Andrew, St John the Evangelist and St Paul. It became part of Bristol in 1844.
It is in the hundred of Barton Regis and was in the Poor Law Union of Barton Regis,
1836-1840s, and the Poor Law Union of Clifton, 1840s-1896.
For local government purposes, it was in the Metropolitan Borough, Urban Sanitary District and
County Borough of Bristol, from 1835 onwards.
For parliamentary purposes it was in the Western Division, 1832-1867, and the Parliamentary
Borough of Bristol from 1867.
Diocese of Bristol. It was in the Deanery of Bristol, 1541-1860, Bristol City, 1860-1886, Bristol,
1886-1901, and in the Deanery of Clifton since 1901.
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Clifton (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Charities
Records of Clifton Rocks Railway Trust (43945/2, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds
Deed of property in Clifton, 1824 (D2761, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of parsonage house and land in Clifton, 1719-1720 (D9775, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Clifton, 13th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Records of Bobbets, Harvey and Gore of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Clifton
Deeds of property in Clifton (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Clifton from the Crossman family of Olveston (D1606, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of J W Ward of Bristol, solicitors, including:
Deeds and related papers of property in Clifton (38799, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds and related papers of property in Clifton (41214, Bristol Record Office )
Records of Joseph Langley, including deeds of property in Clifton (11054, Bristol Record Office)
Clifton, 1675-1906 (25071, 26990, Bristol Record Office)
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Places
Records of Meade King and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Clifton
Deeds and related papers of property in Clifton, 1580-1832 (12148, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds and related papers of property in Clifton, from the Miles family of Bristol, 1624-1858
Deeds of property in Clifton from the Worrall family of Bristol, 1737-1890 (12149, Bristol
Record Office)
deeds of property in Clifton, 1812 (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Clifton, 19th century (38797, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including deeds of property in the manor of
Clifton (SMV, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Stinchcombe family of Wickwar, including deeds of property in Clifton (D6621,
Clifton (11288, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Withers of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Clifton (40950, Bristol
Record Office)
Deeds of property in Royal York Crescent and Nelson Place, Clifton, 1812-1899 (44054, Bristol
Record Office)
Deed of 9, 10 and 11 Upper Park Street, Clifton, 1850 (44253, Bristol Record Office)
Diocesan records
Letters between H. Allen of Clifton, George Gough, T. B. Lancaster, Charles Capener and
others relating to financial difficulties between Gough and Capener c.1863 (GDR/O1,
Orders in Council, 1844-1909, relating to parishes in Clifton (GDR/V7, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of St Andrew, Clifton (with Dowry
Chapel), Holy Trinity, Clifton, St John Evangelist, Clifton,St Paul, Clifton, St Peter, Clifton
Wood, 1872 (GDR/D13, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish papers, 1706-1944, including alteration of boundaries of Bristol St Paul, Clifton
[undated]; papers concerning All Saints, Clifton, 1868; Emmanuel, Clifton, 1869; Holy Trinity,
Clifton, 1863; St John Evangelist, Clifton, 1841 (GDR/V6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Electoral records
Bristol poll books, 1715-1847 (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
343
Places
Marriage settlement and related papers concerning H L Hardwicke and Beatrice Richmond
Smith of Sundon House, Clifton Down, Bristol, 1885-1935 (D4647, Gloucestershire Archives)
Marriage settlement concerning the Passmore family of Grenada and the Hall family of Clifton,
Marriage settlement of John Hunt of the Hotwells, Clifton, Bristol, and Mary Norton of Bath,
Archives)
Probate copy of will of Captain Matthew Liddon, RN, of Clifton, 1869 (D3800, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Probate of will of Thomas Davis, dockmaster, 1823 (D9775, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Andrews and Heyworth of Pewsey (Wiltshire), solicitors, including trust deed relating
to will of Rev Field Flowers Wayet of Clifton, [late 19th century-early 20th century] (D8954,
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury, solicitors, including family and testamentary papers of the
Crossman family of Olveston, 1788-1925 (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of J W Ward of Bristol, solicitors, including papers concerning Clifton Wood, 1638-1730
(41214, Bristol Record Office )
records relating to clubs including Clifton Rifle club and Clifton Rugby Club (D4920,
Papers of the Cornish family relating to the Shortgrove Estate, Durdham Down, 1777-1871
Papers of the Smith, Smith-Baskerville and other families, relating to Clifton Wood,
Papers of the Worrall family relating to Pembroke Road and Durdham Down, 1737-1887
Records of Stanley, Wasbrough of Bristol, solicitors, including papers of the Worrall family,
Archives)
344
Places
Records of the Newton family of Barrs Court, Bitton, including records relating to Hotwells
Records of the Pedler and Wheler familes of Clifton and Jamaica, 1764-1884 (21500, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the Powell family of Clifton, 1836-1888 (16315, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Clifton Caterers Company Ltd, 1911-1981 (44667, Bristol Record Office)
Lieutenancy
Records of the County Lieutenancy, including letters concerning the formation of a cadet corps
at Clifton College, 1875 (L/C/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Casts of Gloucestershire seals from the Braikenridge Collection [see 3080, 8379, 9965, Bristol
Reference Library], made by Robert Hall Warren of Clifton, (early 12th cent.-1768) (D1668,
Local history material relating to Clifton, including books, pamphlets and articles (browse the
online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Manorial records
to the manor of Clifton, 1625 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Maps
Map of Clifton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including maps of the manor of Clifton (SMV/6/5,
Record Office)
Ordnance Survey maps, 6 and 25 inch scale, first edition, c.1880 [coverage not complete] (OS,
Photograph of Indian Army Bandsmen visiting Clifton College, 1921 (GPS/613/30,
345
Places
Postcard showing the unveiling of Clifton College war memorial,1904 (GPS/60/6,
Newspapers
Clifton Chronicle and Directory, 1850 onwards (available at Bristol Central Library)
Nonconformists – Baptist
Records of Hotwell Road Chapel, Clifton (MF1250, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Emmanuel, Clifton,
from 1869 (P/EC, Bristol Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Holy Trinity, Clifton
(P/HTC, Bristol Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for St Andrew the Less,
Clifton, from 1751 (P/StALC, Bristol Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for St John the
Evangelist, Clifton, from 1841 (P/StJC, Bristol Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for St Paul, Clifton, from
1859 (P/StPC, Bristol Record Office )
Record Office)
Photographs
346
Places
Poor relief
concerning Clifton Poor Law Union, 19th century, (see person and place indexes in
Roman Catholic records
Schools
Cheltenham Borough Records, including papers relating to the admission of Albert Brooker to
the Clifton Industrial School, 1889 (CBR/C3/2/5/2/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Records of Hotwells Girls' School (21131, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Bristol Grammar School, Clifton, 1874-2009 (40715, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Clifton Infant School, 1940-1958 (21131/SC/CLF, Bristol Record Office)
Records of St John's Primary School, Clifton, 1850-2005 (21131/SC/StJO, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of Gloucestershire Football Association, including Clifton St Vincents Football Club,
Bristol: booklet commemorating club's centenary, 1999 (D5244, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society, 1875-2005 (41469, Bristol Record
Office)
Land Tax assessment returns for Clifton, 1780-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
347
Places
Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol relating to Clifton Turnpike, 1809-1867 (12152, Bristol
Record Office)
Utilities - gas
Records of Osborne Ward Vassall Abbot and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers relating
to Bristol and Clifton Oil Gas Company, 1824-1834 (12147, Bristol Record Office)
Wills
348
Places
Coalpit Heath
Coalpit Heath has been an ecclesiastical parish since 1845; it was formerly part of Frampton
Cotterell and Westerleigh. It includes Brockeridge, Mays Hill and Nibley.
It is in the hundred of Pucklechurch and was in the Poor Law Union of Chipping Sodbury. It
was in the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1974. It was in the Petty Sessions Division of
Lawfords Gate, 1840-1921, and has been in the Petty Sessions Division of Sodbury since 1921.
It was covered by Sodbury Highway Board.
For local government purposes, it was in the Rural Sanitary Authority of Chipping Sodbury,
1875-1895, then Chipping Sodbury Rural District, 1895-1935, and Sodbury Rural District,
1936-1974. It was in the Northavon District of the County of Avon between 1974 and 1996,
when it became part of the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire.
1885-1948, the South Gloucestershire Division, 1949-1974, and was transferred to Avon in
1974.
1860-1886, Bitton, 1886-1949, and has been in the Deanery of Stapleton since 1949.
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Coalpit Heath (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Diocesan records
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Coalpit Heath, 1872
Papers concerning parsonage house at Coalpit Heath, 1863 (GDR/F4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
349
Places
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Coalpit Heath, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Coalpit Heath (C/CC/
B, Gloucestershire Archives)
concerning Coalpit Heath colliery, 1872-1928 (9492, Bristol Record Office)
E Payne, F.R.G.S., including Coalpit Heath Colliery Co, chemical analysis of coal, c.1940-45
(C/AP/R/1/SP/2/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Local history material relating to Coalpit Heath, including books, pamphlets and articles (browse
the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Manorial records
Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, including maps and plans of Coalpit Heath
Maps
350
Places
Nonconformists
including Hebron chapel, Coalpit Heath (D6008, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Coalpit Heath from
1845 (P/CH, Bristol Record Office )
including:
Schools
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Coalpit Heath,
Records of The Manor Church of England Primary School (S91/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessment returns for Coalpit Heath, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
351
Places
Archives)
Wills
352
Places
353
Places
Cold Ashton
Cold Ashton is an ancient parish. It includes Hampden and Toghill.
It is in the hundred of Pucklechurch and was in the Poor Law Union of Chipping Sodbury. It
was in the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1974, and the Avon Division from 1974. It was in the
Petty Sessions Division of Sodbury until 1982, and since then has been in the Petty Sessions
Division of North Avon; it was covered by Sodbury Highway Board.
1885-1948, the South Gloucestershire Division, 1949-1974, and was transferred to Avon in
1975.
1860-1886, and has been in the Deanery of Bitton since 1886.
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Cold Ashton (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Archives)
Deeds
Deed of property in Cold Ashton, 1844 (D8910, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Cold Ashton, 1796-1803 (D185, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Cold Ashton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
354
Places
Deeds of property in Cold Ashton, 1739-1810 (D2277, Gloucestershire Archives)
Cold Ashton, 13th century-18th century (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Cold Ashton, from
in Cold Ashton, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office,
deeds of property in Toghill (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Diocesan records
List under "Rose's Act" of surviving parish registers and their place of deposit, for Cold
Ashton, 1813 (GDR/V4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Cold Ashton, 1872 (GDR/D13,
Patrons’ petitions for Cold Ashton 1842 (GDR/D4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Presentations to the parish of Cold Ashton, 1581-1888 (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Cold Ashton, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Local history material relating to Cold Ashton, including books, pamphlets, articles, maps and
prints (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
355
Places
Maps
Map of Cold Ashton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Nonconformists
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Cold Ashton (P23,
Photographs
including:
356
Places
Poor relief
Schools
Records of Cold Ashton Church of England School (S23, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Education Department of Gloucestershire County Council including
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Cold Ashton,
Land Tax assessment returns for Cold Ashton, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
357
Places
Archives)
Wills
358
Places
Compton Greenfield
Compton Greenfield is an ancient parish.
It is in the hundred of Upper Henbury, and was in the Poor Law Union of Barton Regis,
1836-1840s, and the Poor Law Union of Clifton, 1840s-1896.
1875-1895, then Barton Regis Rural District, 1895-1904, and Thornbury Rural District,
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Compton Greenfield (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record
Office)
Charities
concerning Henbury Church Lands, relating to Compton Greenfield and Easter Compton
Deeds
Deeds of the manor of Compton Greenfield, 1630s-1880s (D8960, Gloucestershire Archives)
Compton Greenfield (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Almondsbury and
Compton Greenfield (35447, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Compton Greenfield
Diocesan records
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Compton Greenfield, 1872
359
Places
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Compton Greenfield, 1832-1954 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Carter family relating to Compton Greenfield (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
of the Harris, Hobbs, Merrett and Tynte families relating to Compton Greenfield, 1555-1700
Records of Edward Sampson concerning his estates in Compton Greenfield (28048, Bristol
Record Office)
Inclosure
Local history material relating to Compton Greenfield, including books, pamphlets, articles,
photographs and prints (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps
including:
Maps and plans relating to Compton Greenfield (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and plans relating to the manor of Compton Greenfield, 1825 (37959, Bristol Record
Office)
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Compton Greenfield
from 1583 (P/CG, Bristol Record Office)
360
Places
Photographs
Photographs of Compton Greenfield (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
including:
Sale particulars
property in Compton Greenfield, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Land Tax assessment returns for Compton Greenfield, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire
Archives)
361
Places
Archives)
Utilities - water
Gloucestershire County Council Committee papers including plan for piped water to Compton
Greenfield, 1945 (C/CC/W/1/103, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wills
362
Places
Cromhall
Cromhall is an ancient parish. It includes Cromhall Abbots and Cromhall Lygon.
It is in the hundred of Upper Berkeley, and was in the Poor Law Union of Thornbury. It was in
the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1974. It was in the Petty Sessions Division of Berkeley,
Dursley and Wotton, 1840-1921, and has been in the Petty Sessions Division of Wotton-underEdge since 1921. It was covered by Wotton-under-Edge Highway Board.
For local government purposes, it was in the Rural Sanitary Authority of Thornbury, 1875-1895,
then Thornbury Rural District, 1895-1974. It was in the Northavon District of the County of Avon
For parliamentary purposes it was in the Western Division, 1832-1885, the Stroud Division,
1885-1917, the Thornbury Division, 1918-1948, the Stroud and Thornbury Division, 1949-1954,
the South Gloucestershire Division, 1955-1974, and was transferred to the Avon Division in
1975.
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Cromhall (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Records of H M Prison Leyhill, Cromhall, including the Prison Officers' Training School journal,
1982-1986 and photograph album of staff (named) attending training courses, 1973-1985
Records of Wotton-under-Edge Petty Sessions Division (PS/WO, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds
Deed of property in Cromhall, 1700 (D4252, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of Ashworthy Farm, Cromhall, [19th century-20th century] (D5084, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Cromhall (D892, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Cromhall, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
363
Places
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Cromhall, from
Deeds of property in Cromhall, 1519-1897, from the Pope family of Cromhall, Falfield,
Kingscote and Wickwar (D654, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Cromhall, 1680-1874, from the Manning family of Cromhall (D654,
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Cromhall (D4018,
property in Cromhall, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including deeds of property in Cromhall (SMV,
of property in Cromhall, 1668-1908 (D1578, Gloucestershire Archives)
Diocesan records
Glebe terriers and inventories for Cromhall, 1584-1835, 1914, 1948 (GDR/V5,
Grants of next presentation for Cromhall 1569 (GDR/D3, Gloucestershire Archives)
List under "Rose's Act" of surviving parish registers and their place of deposit, for Cromhall,
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Cromhall, 1872 (GDR/D13,
Papers concerning parsonage house at Cromhall, 1817 (GDR/F4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Presentations to the parish of Cromhall, 1559-1951 (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Cromhall, 1832-1954 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Dimery and Pick families of Cam and North Nibley (D654, Gloucestershire
Archives)
364
Places
Papers of the Pope family of Cromhall, Falfield, Kingscote and Wickwar, 1662-1892 (D654,
Records of Moore Brown and Dixon of Tewkesbury, solicitors, including estate papers realting
to Cromhall, from the Hartland family of Tewkesbury, 1782-1853 (D1406, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Archives)
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Cromhall (C/CC/B,
Inclosure
Archives)
Local history material relating to Cromhall, including books, pamphlets, articles, prints and
Maps
including:
Maps and plans relating to Cromhall (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps of Cromhall, Cromhall Abbots and Cromhall Lygon, 1838 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Wartime service of villagers, c.1939-1945 (P104 MI 4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Nonconformists
365
Places
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Cromhall (P104,
Photographs
Postcards of Cromhall (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
including:
Poor relief
Sale particulars
Sale particulars of an allotment on Cromhall common, 1840 (RR97.1GS, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Sale particulars of Cromhall Rectory, 1982 (RR97.2GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Schools
Records of Cromhall Church of England School (P104, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of St Andrew's Primary School, Cromhall (S104, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Cromhall 1903
Land Tax assessment returns for Cromhall, 1773-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
366
Places
Archives)
Records of Wotton-under-Edge Highway Board, 1864-1899 (HB22, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wills
367
Places
368
Places
Dodington
Dodington is an ancient parish.
It is in the hundred of Lower Grumbalds Ash and was in the Poor Law Union of Chipping
1885-1948, the South Gloucestershire Division, 1949-74, and was transferred to Avon Division
in 1974.
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Dodington (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Archives)
Deeds
369
Places
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Dodington (D4018,
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Dodington (28048, Bristol
Record Office)
property in Dodington, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Webber, Bull and Naish of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of land in Dodington,
Diocesan records
Bishop Fowler's certificate of having accepted the resignation of the incumbent of Dodington,
Churchwardens’ presentments: Dodington, 1747 (GDR/C4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Glebe terriers and inventories for Dodington, 1671-1705 (GDR/V5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Letters and papers relating to resignations of incumbents, mainly after commissions of
enquiry under the Incumbents' Resignation Acts (1871 and 1887), Dodington, 1891-1892
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Dodington, 1872 (GDR/D13,
Papers concerning parsonage house at Dodington, 1842 (GDR/F4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Presentations to the parish of Dodington, 1562-1892 (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Dodington, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Lawrence, Graham and Co of London, solicitors, including papers of the Codrington
family of Dodington, 1824-1864 (D2482, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Codrington family of Dodington, including a photograph album, 1883-1917
370
Places
Local history material relating to Dodington, including books, pamphlets, articles, maps,
Maps
Map of Dodington (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Congratulations from Captain Codrington to the Dodington and Marshfield Troop, 1831 (D1610,
Dodington Cavalry Troop at Cheltenham Barracks, 1890 (D5571, Gloucestershire Archives)
Portrait of Captain Sir William Codrington and Lady Georgina at Dodington, c.1840 (MI/21,
Records of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, including papers concerning John Russell of
Chipping Sodbury [Dodington Troop], 1935 (D4920, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, including photograph of Dodington Squadron on
horseback, 1869 (D4920, Gloucestershire Archives)
Testimonial from the Dodington Squadron on the death of C. William Codrington, 1864 (D1610,
Nonconformists
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Dodington from 1574
(P/D, Bristol Record Office )
371
Places
Photographs
Photographs and postcards of Dodington (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
including:
Poor relief
Sale particulars
Sale particulars of property in Dodington, 1990s (D7880, Gloucestershire Archives)
Schools
Records of Betteshanger School, Dodington, 1942 (D9451, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessment returns for Dodington, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
372
Places
Archives)
Utilities - water
373
Places
Wills
374
Places
Downend
Downend has been an ecclesiastical parish since 1874. It was formerly in Mangotsfield. It
formerly included part of Soundwell.
It is in the hundred of Barton Regis and was in the Poor Law Union of Keynsham. It was in the
Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1974. It was in the Petty Sessions Division of Sodbury until
1982, and since then has been in the Petty Sessions Division of North Avon; it was covered by
Lawfords Gate Highway Board.
For local government purposes, it was in the Rural Sanitary Authority of Keynsham, 1875-1895,
then Warmley Rural District, 1895-1927, and Mangotsfield Urban District, 1927-1974. It was in
the Kingswood Borough of the County of Avon between 1974 and 1996, when it became part of
1885-1948, the South Gloucestershire Division, 1949-1970, the Kingswood Division,
Diocese of Bristol. It was in the Deanery of Bristol Rural ,1860-1949, and has been in the
Deanery of Stapleton since 1949.
Records of Mangotsfield Urban District Council (DA10, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Kingswood Borough Council, 1973-1996, including Downend Sports Centre Joint
Management Committee minutes, 1984-1995 (DC115, DC130, Gloucestershire Archives)
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Downend (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Archives)
375
Places
Deeds
Deed of property in Downend, 1937 (D8944, Gloucestershire Archives)
Downend, 1680-1874, from the Manning family of Cromhall (D654, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Meade King and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of Downend Chapel,
in Downend (HA, Bristol Record Office)
related papers concerning property in Downend (22936, Bristol Record Office )
Diocesan records
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Mangotsfield (with Downend)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Downend, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Burges, Salmon and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including papers of the Hughes family
relating to Cleeve Lodge, Downend, 1771-1888 (09367, 09369, 09370, 09372, Bristol Record
Office)
concerning education of children from Guardians cottage homes, Downend, 1915-17 (C/CE/C/
1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Wendover Maternity Home, Downend, 1943 (C/CC/B/286, Gloucestershire Archives)
376
Places
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Wendover Maternity
Home, Downend, 1943 (C/CC/B/286, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including papers concerning quarries in Downend and
coal mining, 1684-1743 (D421, Gloucestershire Archives)
Local history material relating to Downend, including books, pamphlets, articles, photographs
Downend History Pack, including photographs, 2011 (RX109a.1GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Our parish of Mangotsfield, including Downend, by A E Jones, published 1899 (3427, Bristol
Reference Library)
Maps
Records of Downend Chapel (MF1243, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Downend Methodist Circuit (35230, Bristol Record Office)
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Downend (P/DO,
Photographs
Photographs of Downend (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
including:
377
Places
Records of Mangotsfield Urban District Council, including:
Deposited building plans submitted for council approval, 1896-1898 (DA10, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Schools
Archives)
Managers' minutes of Downend County Primary School, 1956-1970, and Blackhorse and
Bromley Heath Primary Schools, 1958-1970 (D9319, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Blackhorse Primary School, Downend (S212/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Bromley Heath Infants' School, Downend (S212/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Bromley Heath Junior School, Downend (S212/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Christchurch Church of England Primary School, Downend, and predecessors
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Downend (D2186,
Records of Downend Nursery School, formerly known as Downend Babies Home, 1945-1952
(21131/SC/DOW, Bristol Record Office)
Land Tax assessment returns for Downend, 1780-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
378
Places
Archives)
Wills
379
Places
Doynton
Doynton is an ancient parish.
It is in the hundred of Upper Langley and Swinehead and was in the Poor Law Union of
Chipping Sodbury. It was in the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1974. It is in the Petty
Sessions Division of Lawfords Gate, and was covered by Sodbury Highway Board.
in 1974.
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including Doynton: papers relating to burial
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Doynton (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Charities
Records of Wilkes Charity (41918, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Archives)
380
Places
Deeds
Deed of property in Doynton, 1767 (D2462, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Doynton, 1673-1771 (D185, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Doynton (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Doynton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Doynton, 13th century-18th century (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
in Doynton, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office,
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including deed of property in Doynton, 1598 (D421,
deeds of property in Doynton (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Deed of Toghill Ham, Doynton, 1879 (44507, Bristol Record Office)
Diocesan records
Presentations to the parish of Doynton, 1561-1892 (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sequestration papers, Doynton, 1872, and undated, 18th cent (GDR/D16, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Subscriptions, Rector of Doynton, 1640 (GDR/D9, Gloucestershire Archives)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Doynton, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Local history material relating to Doynton, including books, pamphlets, articles and photographs
381
Places
(browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps
Record Office)
Doynton Rectory, (1939)-1958 (C/CE/C/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Nonconformists
Parish records
Copy of parish map of Doynton, (1839), showing glebe lands, 1872 (D2894, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Doynton from 1566
(P/Dn, Bristol Record Office )
Record Office)
Photographs
Photographs of Doynton (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
including:
382
Places
Poor relief
Schools
Records of Doynton Church of England School (SM119, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Doynton, 1903
Land Tax assessment returns for Doynton, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessments for Doynton, 1797-1798, 1800 (D12430, Gloucestershire Archives)
383
Places
Archives)
Wills
384
Places
Dyrham and Hinton
Dyrham and Hinton is an ancient parish.
It is in the hundred of Lower Grumbalds Ash, and was in the Poor Law Union of Chipping
For parliamentary purposes, it was in the Western Division, 1832-1885, the Thornbury Division,
in 1974.
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Dyrham and Hinton (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record
Office)
Charities
Records of Langton's Charity (D1034, Gloucestershire Archives)
Coroners
Archives)
385
Places
Deeds
Deed of property in Dyrham, 1775 (D1349, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Hinton, 1770 (D185, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Dyrham (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
in Dyrham and Hinton, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record
deeds of property in Dyrham (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Diocesan records
Printed order of service relating to Dyrham, 1845 (GDR/F6, Gloucestershire Archives)
List under "Rose's Act" of surviving parish registers and their place of deposit, for Dyrham,
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Dyrham, 1872 (GDR/D13,
Parish papers, 1706-1944, including Dyrham glebe, 1706-1707 (GDR/V6, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Presentations to the parish of Dyrham and Hinton, 1546-1875 (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Subscriptions, schoolmaster of Dyrham, 1736 (GDR/D9, Gloucestershire Archives)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Dyrham and Hinton, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Blathwayt family of Dyrham (D1799, D2659, D2663, D11485, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Dyrham and Hinton (C/
386
Places
CC/B, Gloucestershire Archives)
Letters testimonial in favour of midwives and surgeons, for Hinton 1707 (GDR/C8/2,
Local history material relating to Dyrham and Hinton, including books, pamphlets, articles,
Maps
John J de Wilstar's book of surveys, including Hinton, 1763 (04480, Bristol Record Office)
Map of Dyrham and Hinton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including:
Maps and plans relating to Dyrham and Hinton, 1800 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and plans relating to Hinton, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Record Office)
Dyrham Park, (1939)-1958 (C/CE/C/3, Gloucestershire Archives)
Letters to Rev W E Blathwayt from parishioners in Hinton and Dyrham on active service, chiefly
in France, but also in Salonika, Palestine and Egypt, 1914-1918 (D1799, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Archives)
Nonconformists
387
Places
Records of Hinton Congregatioanl Church (D4598, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Dyrham from 1568 (P/
Dy, Bristol Record Office )
Record Office)
Photographs
Photographs of Dyrham Park, 2002 (D9078, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs and postcards of Dyrham and Hinton (browse the online catalogue,
including:
Poor relief
Sale particulars
388
Places
Plan and schedule of Lower Lodge Farm, 1903 (D254, Gloucestershire Archives)
Schools
Records of Dyrham and Hinton Church of England School (S126, SM126, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Archives)
Certificate of continuation of Dyrham Free School under Walter Crew, 1735 (GDR/S1,
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Dyrham and
Hinton, 1903 (C/AE/R/4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs of Dyrham and Hinton taken by members of the Women's Institute, 2000 (D8869,
Land Tax assessment returns for Dyrham and Hinton, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire
Archives)
389
Places
Archives)
Wills
390
Places
Elberton
Elberton is an ancient parish.
It is in the hundred of Lower Berkeley, and was in the Poor Law Union of Thornbury. It was in
then Thornbury Rural District, 1895-1974, and Northavon District, 1974-1996. It was in the
Northavon District of the County of Avon between 1974 and 1996, when it became part of the
unitary authority of South Gloucestershire.
Stapleton, 1886-1927, and has been in the Deanery of Almondsbury since 1927.
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Elberton (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Deeds
Deeds of property in Elberton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Elberton (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
related papers of property in Elberton, from the Miles family of Bristol, 1624-1858 (12151, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Elberton (D4365,
391
Places
Records of the Player family of South Gloucestershire, including deeds of property in Elberton
Diocesan records
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Elberton, 1832-1954 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Elberton (C/CC/B,
Local history material relating to Elberton, including books, pamphlets, articles, maps,
Manorial records
Maps
392
Places
Map of Elberton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including maps and plans relating to Elberton, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record Office)
Third edition Ordnance Survey maps of Elberton, 1923 (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Record Office)
Nonconformists
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Elberton from 1558
(P/E, Bristol Record Office )
Record Office)
Photographs
Photographs of Elberton (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
including:
393
Places
Poor relief
Schools
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Elberton (D2186,
Records of the Elberton Millennium Group, 2000 (D8631, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire Federation of Women's Institutes, including Elberton WI
Land Tax assessment returns for Elberton, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessments for Elberton, 1796-1797 (D12430, Gloucestershire Archives)
394
Places
Archives)
Wills
395
Places
Falfield
Falfield has been a civil parish since 1894. It was formerly in Thornbury.
It is in the hundred of Lower Thornbury and was in the Poor Law Union of Thornbury. It was in
then Thornbury Rural District, 1895-1974. It was in the Northavon District of the County of Avon
For parliamentary purposes it was in the Western Division, 1832-1885, the Stroud Division,
1885-1917, the Thornbury Division, 1918-1948, the Stroud and Thornbury Division, 1949-1954,
the South Gloucestershire Division, 1955-1974, and was transferred to the Avon Division in
1975.
It is in the Diocese of Gloucester, and was in the Deanery of Dursley, 1863-1907, and has been
in the Deanery of Hawkesbury since 1907.
Records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, including Falfield: papers relating to burial
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Falfield (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Deeds
Deeds of Teazle Cottage, Whitfield, Falfield, 1754-2003 (D10341, Gloucestershire Archives)
396
Places
Falfield, 1519-1897, from the Pope family of Cromhall, Falfield, Kingscote and Wickwar (D654,
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Falfield (D4018,
Records of the Howard family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Falfield (D108,
Records of the Thurston family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Falfield (D866,
Diocesan records
Glebe terriers and inventories for Falfield, 1914, 1948 (GDR/V5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Nominations to the parish of Falfield, 1863, 1865, 1892 (GDR/D2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Falfield, 1872 (GDR/D13,
Parish papers, 1706-1944, including Falfield, 1863 (GDR/V6, Gloucestershire Archives)
Presentations to the parish of Falfield, 1870-1960 (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records relating to advowsons, Falfield, 1909; papers relating to transfers of patronage,
1979, 1981 (GDR/D5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Instrument fixing table of fees for Falfield, 1912 (GDR/V12, Gloucestershire Archives)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Falfield, 1832-1954 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Marriage settlement concerning land in Falfield, 1752 (36217, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Records of the Bennett family of Berkeley and Falfield c.1780-1930s (D8864, Gloucestershire
Archives)
397
Places
Local history material relating to Falfield, including books, pamphlets, articles, prints and
Maps
Nonconformists
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Falfield (P142,
Photographs
Photograph of windmill at Falfield, 1979-1984 (D10946, Gloucestershire Archives)
Postcards of Falfield (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
398
Places
including:
Poor relief
Sale particulars
Sale particulars of Eastwood Park estate, Falfield, 1916 (RX131.1GS, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Sale particulars of furniture and effects at The Gables, Falfield, 1948 (RQ131.1GS,
Schools
Records of Falfield Church of England School (P142, Gloucestershire Archives)
Appointment of foundation managers for Falfield school, 1916; letter from the National
Society concerning the school's history, 1975 (GDR/A17, Gloucestershire Archives)
Copy conveyances to Trust and trust deeds relating to Falfield School, 1910 (GDR/A17/1/28,
Records of Falfield Women's Institute 1929-1997 (D8138, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Land Tax assessments for Falfield, 1797-1798, 1800 (D12430, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessment returns for Falfield, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
399
Places
Archives)
Wills
400
Places
401
Places
Filton
Filton is an ancient parish.
It is in the hundred of Lower Berkeley, and was in the Poor Law Union of Barton Regis. It was
in the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1974. It was in the Petty Sessions Division of Sodbury
until 1982, and since then has been in the Petty Sessions Division of North Avon; it was
covered by Lawfords Gate Highway Board.
1875-1895, then Barton Regis Rural District, 1895-1904, Chipping Sodbury Rural District,
1904-1935, and Sodbury Rural District, 1936-1974. It was in the Northavon District of the
County of Avon between 1974 and 1996, when it became part of the unitary authority of South
Gloucestershire.
For parliamentary purposes, it was in the Western Division, 1832-1885, the Thornbury Division,
in 1974
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Filton (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Archives)
Deeds
Deeds of property in Filton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Filton, 1945-1951 (D12401, Gloucestershire Archives)
related papers of property in Filton, 1580-1832 (12148, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Pictons of Luton, solicitors, including deeds of property in Filton (43521, Bristol
402
Places
Record Office)
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Filton (28048, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of Wellingtons of Gloucester, solicitors, including deeds of property in Filton (40591,
Diocesan records
Order in Council to transfer part of the episcopal estates in the manor of Horfield, parsonages
of Horfield and Filton, and appurtenances, except the advowson, as leased to George
Lempriere, 4 Feb. 1817) to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1847 (GDR/G4/1,
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Filton, 1872 (GDR/D13,
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Filton, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Seyer family, 1780-1834, and papers of Rev Samuel Seyer, 1826 (12147,
Papers of the the Brickdale family relating to the manor and advowson of Filton, 1735-1815
Archives)
Archives)
Correspondence concerning Filton as a proposed urban district, 1937-1942 (C/AC/C6/1/35,
403
Places
Conygre House, Filton, 1949 (C/CC/B/473, Gloucestershire Archives)
Filton Health Centre, 1939 (C/CC/B/268, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Filton Health Centre, 1939 (C/CC/B/268, Gloucestershire Archives)
Inclosure
Records of Moffat Solutions of Filton, providers of health and safety services, 1997 (44231,
Records of British Coal and its predecessor bodies in South Gloucestershire, including Filton
Records of South Gloucestershire events compiled by members of the Gloucestershire police
force including copy photographs of Parnell monoplane landing at Filton aerodrome c.1928 and
work underway in the Bristol Aeroplane Company factory, Filton, during World War I (D9110,
Records of Bristol Aeroplane Company, aircraft manufacturers, 1914-1921 (44590, Bristol
Record Office)
404
Places
Photographs of Bristol Aeroplane Company aircraft (44592, Bristol Record Office)
Local history material relating to Filton, including books, pamphlets, articles and maps (browse
the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of R W Trotman of Filton, family historian (D9957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps
John J de Wilstar's book of surveys, including Filton, 1742 (04480, Bristol Record Office)
Map of Filton (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
including maps and plans relating to Filton, including map of Filton, 1920 (31965, Bristol Record
Office)
Archives)
Archives)
Record Office)
Air raids on Bristol and Filton, 1940-1944 (C/CDa/V4/7-16, Gloucestershire Archives)
Air raid precautions wardens' post at Charborough Road School, Filton, c. 1939-40
405
Places
Nonconformists
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Filton from 1654;
rectory records, 1580-1962 (P/FC, Bristol Record Office )
Record Office)
Photographs
Photographs of Filton, c.1900-1960s (D9054, Gloucestershire Archives)
including:
Poor relief
Sale particulars
property in Filton, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Schools
406
Places
Filton Hill School photograph album of a day in the life of the school, 2000 (D8869,
Records of Filton Church of England School (S144, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Filton High School (including Filton Senior Mixed School, later Filton Secondary
Records of Filton Technical College (21131, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Filton, 1903
Records of Monks Park School, Filton (21131/SC/MON, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Pen Park School, Filton, 1959-2000 (21131/SC/PEP, Bristol Record Office)
Land Tax assessment returns for Filton, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
407
Places
Great Western Railway account of connecting the Docks with the GWR via Filton, 1910 (3171,
Archives)
Archives)
Utilities - water
Records of the Greenway family of Bristol, including papers relating to Filton water supply,
408
Places
undated (22936, Bristol Record Office)
Wills
409
Places
Fishponds
Fishponds has been an ecclesiastical parish since 1869. It was formerly in Stapleton.
It is in the hundred of Barton Regis and was in the Poor Law Union of Barton Regis,
1836-1840s, and the Poor Law Union of Clifton, 1840s-1896. It was in the Petty Sessions
Avon; it was covered by Lawfords Gate Highway Board.
For local government purposes, it was in the Urban Sanitary Authority of Stapleton, 1875-1895,
then Stapleton Urban District, 1895-1904, and Bristol County Borough from 1904.
For parliamentary purposes it was in the Western Division, 1832-1885, and Bristol
Parliamentary Borough from 1885.
It is in the Diocese of Bristol, and in the Deanery of Bristol, 1869-1887, Stapleton, 1887-1901,
Bristol, 1901-1949, and has been in the Deanery of Stapleton since 1949.
Census
1841-1891 census returns for Fishponds (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Records of the County Coroner, William Joyner of Berkeley, including references to French
prisoners of war in prison at Fishponds, 1790-1823 (D260, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds
Records of Harley and Duval of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of Fishponds House from the
Bompas family, 1813-1822 (49646, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Lyons Davidson of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Fishponds
related papers of property in Fishponds (39519, Bristol Record Office )
Deed of land at Maywood Crescent, Fishponds, 1937 (44317, Bristol Record Office)
Diocesan records
Papers concerning parsonage house at St Mary, Fishponds, 1873 (GDR/F4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Parish papers, 1706-1944, including Fishponds, Stapleton, 1869 (GDR/V6, Gloucestershire
Archives)
410
Places
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Fishponds, 1832-1885 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
J C Bompas Collection, including papers relating to Fishponds Lunatic Asylum, 1848 (58, 1382,
1383, Bristol Reference Library)
Records of Glenside Hospital and Bristol Lunatic Asylum (40513, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Bompas family of Stapleton, 1747-1856, relating to Fishponds Lunatic Asylum
Plans of proposed factory for Robinson Waxed Paper Company Ltd, Fishponds, 1928 (44211,
Local history material relating to Fishponds, including books, pamphlets, articles, photographs,
prints and postcards (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
Maps
411
Places
Records of Fishponds Methodist Circuit (35230, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Frome Valley Methodist Circuit, including records of Fishponds chapel (35230,
Photographs
Photographs and postcards of Fishponds (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Photograph of 17 Gorse Hill, Fishponds, 1957 (40674, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Stapleton Urban District Council and related authorities (see printed catalogue in the
Sale particulars
Sale particulars of Oldbury Court, Fishponds, 1938 (B100/44987GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Schools
Records of the College School of St Matthias, 1863-2000 (41480, Bristol Record Office)
Charity Commission's scheme for the College of St Matthias, Fishponds, 1979 (GDR/A8/3/1,
Minutes, reports and accounts of the College of St Matthias, Fishponds, 1952-1971
(GDR/A17/10/49, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Whitefield Fishponds Community School, 1934-2008 (44226, 21131/SC/WHIT,
Records of Alexandra Park Secondary Modern School, Fishponds, 1910-1987 (21131/SC/ALP,
Records of Downend Road Temporary School, [Fishponds], 1904-1911 (21131/SC/DOT, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the College of St Matthias schools, Fishponds, 1863-2000 (21131/SC/StMTFis,
Records of Bristol Diocesan Training College, later St Matthias' College, Fishponds, Bristol,
412
Places
Land Tax assessment returns for Fishponds, 1780-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Wills
413
Places
414
Places
Frampton Cotterell
Frampton Cotterell is an ancient parish.
It is in the hundred of Upper Langley and Swinehead, and was in the Poor Law Union of
Chipping Sodbury. It was in the Lower Coroners’ Division. It was in the Petty Sessions Division
of Sodbury until 1982, and since then has been in the Petty Sessions Division of North Avon; it
was covered by Lawfords Gate Highway Board.
1885-1948, the South Gloucestershire Division, 1949-1974, and was transferred to Avon
Division in 1974.
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Frampton Cotterell (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record
Office)
Coroners
Archives)
Deeds
Deeds and related papers of property in Frampton Cotterell, 1680-1777 (D185, Gloucestershire
Archives)
415
Places
Deeds of property in Frampton Cotterell, (1687)-1904, from the Hardwicke family of
Frampton Cotterell (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Lyons Davidson of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Frampton
Cotterell (40694, Bristol Record Office)
property in Frampton Cotterell (D4890, Gloucestershire Archives)
property in Frampton Cotterell, from the Player family of Bristol, 1719-1881 (12161, Bristol
Record Office)
in the manor of Gostling, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Frampton Cotterell
Frampton Cotterell, 1760s (22936, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Harwood family of Olveston, including deeds of property in Frampton Cotterell
property in Frampton Cotterell, c.1500-late 19th century (D4018, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Player family of South Gloucestershire, including deeds of property in Frampton
Cotterell (D5090, Gloucestershire Archives)
Diocesan records
Churchwardens’ presentments: Frampton Cotterell, 1681 and 1703 (GDR/C4,
Glebe terriers and inventories for Frampton Cotterell, 1622-1824 (GDR/V5, Gloucestershire
Archives)
List under "Rose's Act" of surviving parish registers and their place of deposit, for Frampton
Cotterell, 1813 (GDR/V4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Frampton Cotterell, 1872
Papers concerning parsonage house at Frampton Cotterell, 1875 (GDR/F4, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Presentations to the parish of Frampton Cotterell, 1553-1886 (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records relating to advowsons, Frampton Cotterell, 1704, 1886 (GDR/D5, Gloucestershire
Archives)
416
Places
Sequestration papers, Frampton Cotterell, 1704 (GDR/D16, Gloucestershire Archives)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Frampton Cotterell, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Office)
including:
Survey of Frampton Cotterell, undated (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Terrier of Frampton Cotterell, 1635 (32395, Bristol Record Office)
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Frampton Cotterell (C/
CC/B, Gloucestershire Archives)
Letters testimonial in favour of surgeons, for Frampton Cotterell 1721 (GDR/C8/2,
417
Places
Inclosure
Records of Crossmans of Thornbury and predecessors, solicitors, including accounts of
Frampton Cotterell Inclosure Commissioners, 1824-1831 (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Local history material relating to Frampton Cotterell, including books, pamphlets, articles, maps,
Maps
including maps and plans relating to Frampton Cotterell, 1811-1891 (37959, Bristol Record
Office)
Third edition Ordnance Survey maps of Frampton Cotterell, 1923 (35192, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Nonconformists
including Bethel and Zion chapels, Frampton's End (D6008, Gloucestershire Archives)
of numerous churches including Frampton Cotterell, 1980s-1991 (D8988, Gloucestershire
Archives)
418
Places
Records of the Zion Chapel (MF1247, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Frampton Cotterell Methodist Circuit (35230, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Frome Valley Methodist Circuit, including records of Frampton Cotterell chapel
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Frampton Cotterell (P/
FC, Bristol Record Office )
Photographs
Photograph of windmill at Frampton Cotterell, 1979-1984 (D10946, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs and postcards of Frampton Cotterell (browse the online catalogue,
including:
Poor relief
419
Places
Sale particulars
including:
Plan and sale particulars of farms and land at Frampton Cotterell, 1918 (32395, Bristol
Record Office)
Sale particulars relating to property in Frampton Cotterell, 1918 (31965, Bristol Record
Office)
property in Frampton Cotterell, early 20th century (38361, Bristol Record Office)
Schools
Records of Brockeridge Infants' School (S148/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Frampton Cotterell Church of England Primary School (S148/2, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Frampton
Cotterell British School and Frampton Cotterell National School, 1903 (C/AE/R/4,
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Frampton Cotterell
Land Tax assessment returns for Frampton Cotterell, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Land Tax assessments for Frampton Cotterell, 1797-1798, 1800 (D12430, Gloucestershire
Archives)
420
Places
Archives)
Detailed account of highway repair rate, Frampton Cotterell, 1753 (Q/SR/1753/C,
421
Places
Utilities - water
Wills
422
Places
Frenchay
Frenchay has been an ecclesiastical parish since 1836. It was formerly in Winterbourne.
It is in the hundred of Upper Langley and Swinehead and was in the Poor Law Union of Barton
Regis. It was in the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1974. It was in the Petty Sessions Division
of Sodbury until 1982, and since then has been in the Petty Sessions Division of North Avon; it
was covered by Lawfords Gate Highway Board.
1875-1895, then Barton Regis Rural District, 1895-1904, Chipping Sodbury Rural District,
1904-1935, and Sodbury Rural District, 1935-1974. It was in the Northavon District of the
County of Avon between 1974 and 1996, when it became part of the unitary authority of South
Gloucestershire.
Division in 1974.
Stapleton, 1886-1927, Almondsbury, 1927-1949, and has been in the Deanery of Stapleton
since 1949.
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Frenchay (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Charities
Records of Bristol Municipal Charities relating to property of Queen Elizabeth's Hospital,
including the Winterbourne Estate and Frenchay Manor House, 1903-1904 (33041, Bristol
Record Office)
Coroners
Archives)
423
Places
Deeds
Deeds of property in Frenchay, (1767)-1838 (D9184, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of David Langley and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Frenchay
related papers of property in Frenchay, from the Miles family of Bristol, 1624-1858 (12151,
in Frenchay, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office,
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Frenchay (28048, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the Player family of South Gloucestershire, including deeds of property in Frenchay
Diocesan records
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Frenchay, 1872 (GDR/D13,
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Frenchay, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Gloucestershire County Council building contracts, 1930-1963, including Riverwood Estate,
Frenchay, 1960 (C/CC/B/1207, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Frenchay Hospital: Monica Britton Memorial Hall Exhibition of Medical History (see
Records of the Monica Britton Medical History Collection, Frenchay, 1987-2008 (42919, Bristol
Record Office)
Records of the Burden Neurological Institute (HO50, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Frenchay Hospital Trust (HA25, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Frenchay Park Sanatorium (HO52, Gloucestershire Archives)
424
Places
Local history material relating to Frenchay, including books, pamphlets, articles, photographs
Maps
Tithe map and apportionment for Frenchay (see person and place indexes in searchroom,
Records of Frenchay Presbyterian Chapel (MF1244, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish Councils
Winterbourne Parish Council's copy of byelaws relating to Frenchay and Whiteshill Commons,
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Frenchay from 1892
(P/Fr, Bristol Record Office )
Tithe maps and apportionments for Frenchay and Winterbourne (see person and place indexes
Photographs
Photographs of Frenchay (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
including:
425
Places
Schools
Records of Frenchay Church of England Primary School (S151/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Gloucestershire County Surveyor concerning schools including Frenchay, 1903
Records of Frenchay Sanitorium School, 1930-1949 (21131/SC/FRE, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Frenchay Cricket Club, 1875-2002 (D10130, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessment returns for Frenchay, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
426
Places
Wills
427
Places
Great Badminton
Great Badminton is an ancient parish. For Little Badminton, see Hawkesbury.
It is in the hundred of Upper Grumbalds Ash and was in the Poor Law Union of Chipping
Division in 1974.
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Great Badminton (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record
Office)
Coroners
Archives)
Deeds
Deeds of property in Great Badminton (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Great Badminton, 15th century-20th century (see person and place
indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office )
428
Places
Diocesan records
Chronological lists of incumbents, c.1914 including Badminton, 1549-1902 (GDR/D19,
Glebe terriers and inventories for Great and Little Badminton, 1914, 1948 (GDR/V5,
List under "Rose's Act" of surviving parish registers and their place of deposit, for Great
Badminton, 1813 (GDR/V4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Great Badminton, 1872 (GDR/
D13, Gloucestershire Archives)
Presentations to the parish of Little Badminton and Great Badminton, 1549-1901 (GDR/D1,
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Great Badminton, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Evans and Evill of Chepstow (Monmouthshire), solicitors, including records of the
Beaufort family of Badminton (D1430, Gloucestershire Archives)
Lieutenancy
Records of the Beaufort family of Badminton and the Berkeley family of Stoke Gifford, including
papers relating to lieutenancy commissions (D2700, Gloucestershire Archives)
Local history material relating to Great Badminton, including books, pamphlets, periodicals,
articles, maps, photographs, prints and postcards (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Maps
Ordnance Survey maps, 6 and 25 inch scale, second and third editions, c.1902-c.1919
429
Places
Letters with references to James II's visit to Badminton, Bristol and Bridgewater after the
rebellion, 1686, and to military action in Europe,1685-1686 (D1799, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, including papers, photographs and memorabilia
relating to camp at Badminton (D4920, Gloucestershire Archives)
Souvenir Programme: The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars 1834-1984. To mark 150th
anniversary celebration at Badminton, 1984 (MI/38, Gloucestershire Archives)
Voluntary payments towards defence [Great Badminton], 1798 (P32, Gloucestershire Archives)
Nonconformists
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Great Badminton
Photographs
Photographs and postcards of Great Badminton (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
including:
Poor relief
Sale particulars
430
Places
particulars of property in Great Badminton, 1958 (D7879, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of furniture and effects at the Old Vicarage, Great Badminton, 1967
(RQ32.1GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Schools
Correspondence file relating to Great Badminton school site and buildings, 1950-1972 (GDR/
A17, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessment returns for Great Badminton, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire
Archives)
431
Places
Archives)
Wills
432
Places
Hanham Abbots
Hanham Abbots has been a civil parish since 1894. It includes Hanham, which was a civil
parish between 1866 and 1894 and then became part of Hanham Abbots and Kingswood. It
was formerly part of Bitton.
It is in the hundred of Upper Langley and Swinehead and was in the Poor Law Union of
Keynsham from 1901. It was in the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1874. It is in the Petty
Sessions Division of Lawfords Gate, and the area was covered by Lawfords Gate Highway
Board.
For local government purposes, the area was in the Rural Sanitary Authority of Keynsham,
1875-1895, and the parish was in Warmley Rural District, 1895-1974. It was in the Kingswood
Borough of the County of Avon between 1974 and 1996, when it became part of the unitary
authority of South Gloucestershire.
1885-1948, the South Gloucestershire Division, 1949-70, the Kingswood Division, 1971-1975,
and was transferred to the Avon Division in 1975.
Records of Warmley Rural District Council (DA39, Gloucestershire Archives)
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Hanham (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Archives)
Deeds
Deed of property in Hanham Abbots, 1600 (D1804, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Hanham (D2957, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Hanham, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
433
Places
Deeds of property in Hanham, 1685-1830 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Farrer and Co of London, solicitors, including deeds of property in Hanham, from the
in Hanham, 1546-1804 (see person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office,
Hanham, 1796-1814 (D4316, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Bathurst family of Lydney, including deeds of property in Hanham, 1598-1741
Records of the Elbridge family, including deeds of property at Hanham Mills, 1740-1777 (AC,
Diocesan records
Glebe terriers and inventories for Hanham, 1704-1705 (GDR/V5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Nominations to the parish of Hanham, 1845 (GDR/D2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Hanham (with Christchurch),
Presentations to the parish of Hanham, 1894 (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Hanham Abbots, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Office)
Will and related papers of John Whittuck Palmer of Hanham Hall, 1871-1923 (D2477,
Gloucestershire County Council orders affecting boundaries and wards including Hanham
434
Places
Abbots, 1960 (K179/14, Gloucestershire Archives)
Archives)
Industry, trade and business
Records of S Gillett of Hanham, farrier and general smith, 1930s-1940s (D8870,
Sale particulars of house, lands and boot factory, Hanham Abbots, 1897 (RX146.1GS,
H T Ellacombe Collection, including manuscripts and printed sources relating to Hanham,
Local history material relating to Hanham Abbots, including books, pamphlets, articles, maps,
Records of E Lovell of Hanham, mainly concerning Bristol area,19th and early 20th century (see
person and place indexes in searchroom, Bristol Record Office )
Scrapbooks covering Hanham, Bitton and Kingswood, 1940s-1960s (42562, Bristol Record
Office)
Maps
Northavon District Council: Longwell Green Development Area map (pre-land use), mid 1980s
(DC110, Gloucestershire Archives)
Record Office)
Minutes of the Mount Memorial Sub-Committee, with details of the dedication ceremony, 1951
435
Places
Archives)
Nonconformists
Parish Councils
Records of Bitton Parish Council (P48a, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Hanham (P/H, Bristol
Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Hanham Abbots from
1844 (P/HA, Bristol Record Office )
Record Office)
Photographs
Photographs of Hanham Abbots (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire Archives)
including:
Records of Warmley Rural District Council, including:
Poor relief
436
Places
Poor rate books for Hanham, 1842-1856 (42562, Bristol Record Office)
Sale particulars
Sale particulars of house, lands and boot factory, Hanham Abbots, 1897 (RX146.1GS,
Schools
Records of Christchurch Church of England Primary School (formerly Christchurch National
School, and also known as Hanham Church of England School), 1863-2004 (S160/2,
Records of Samuel White's Infant School, (1849)-2006 (S160/1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Hanham (D2186,
Land Tax assessment returns for Hanham Abbots, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Papers relating to alterations making the River Avon navigable between Bath and Hanham,
including lists of landowners, 1725 (8029, Bristol Record Office )
437
Places
Archives)
Wills
Wills and inventories proved in the Diocese of Gloucester, 1541-1858, kept under Bitton (GDR,
438
Places
Hawkesbury
Hawkesbury is an ancient parish. It includes Dunkirk, Hillesley, Kilcot, Little Badminton,
Saddlewood, Tresham and Hawkesbury Upton.
It is in the hundred of Grumbalds Ash and was in the Poor Law Union of Chipping Sodbury. It
was in the Lower Coroners’ Division, 1844-1974. It was in the Petty Sessions Division of
Sodbury until 1982, and since then has been in the Petty Sessions Division of North Avon; it
was covered by Sodbury Highway Board.
For local government purposes, it was in the Sanitary Authority of Chipping Sodbury,
Division in 1974.
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Hawkesbury (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Coroners
Archives)
Deeds
Deed of land called Walesley [Wazzlemead] in Hildesley [Hillesley], 1266 (D8661,
Deed of land in Middle Ground in Hawkesbury, 1691 (D9131, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of the New Mills Estate in Alderley and Hawkesbury, 1597-1838 (D8548, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deed of property in Hawkesbury and Hillesley, 1682/3 (D5400, Gloucestershire Archives)
439
Places
Deeds of property in Hawkesbury, Hillesley and Kilcot, 1670-1868 (D10187, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Archives)
Archives)
Deeds of property in Hawkesbury, 15th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Hawkesbury Upton (40036, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of Hawkesbury, 1680-1819, from the Larton family of Alderley (D654, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Deeds of property in Hawkesbury, 1546-1985 (D654, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Hawkesbury, 1671-1870, from the Allway and Park families of
Kingswood (D654, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Penley, Milward and Bayley of Dursley, solicitors, including deeds of property in
Hawkesbury, (1619)-1986 (D2078, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Rickerbys of Cheltenham, solicitors, including deeds of property in Hawkesbury,
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Little Badminton
Deeds and related papers concerning land adjoining Hawkesbury Church School to be used
as gardens, 1924 (GDR/A17/1/38, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers concerning site of church at Hawkesbury, 1924 (GDR/A17/1/37,
Records of the Stinchcombe family of Wickwar, including deeds of property in Hawkesbury
Diocesan records
Certificate of failure of John Pece to prove fitness for institution to Hawkesbury, 1645
(GDR/D7/5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Detection causes, Hawkesbury deanery, 1619-1639, 1684-1688 (GDR/138, GDR/255,
Glebe terriers and inventories for Great and Little Badminton, 1914, 1948 (GDR/V5,
440
Places
Glebe terriers and inventories for Hawkesbury, 1612-1704, 1914 (GDR/V5, Gloucestershire
Archives)
List under "Rose's Act" of surviving parish registers and their place of deposit, for
Hawkesbury, 1813 (GDR/V4, Gloucestershire Archives)
Nominations and appointments of apparitors and underapparitors for various deaneries
including Hawkesbury, 1787 (GDR/B9/2, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Hawkesbury, 1872 (GDR/D13,
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Little Badminton, 1872
Parish papers, 1706-1944, including new church at Hawkesbury Upton, annexation of
Tresham and Saddlewood tithings to Alderley, and Alderley patronage, 1912, 1919 (GDR/V6,
Presentations to the parish of Hawkesbury with Little Badminton and Tresham, 1548-1952
Presentations to the parish of Little Badminton and Great Badminton, 1549-1901 (GDR/D1,
Records relating to advowsons, Hawkesbury, 1892 (GDR/D5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records relating to advowsons: papers relating to transfers of patronage, Hawkesbury, 1983
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Hawkesbury, 1832-1948 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Probate copy of the will of Edward Collins of Hawkesbury Upton, gentleman, 1847-1851
Records of Clark and Smith of Tetbury, solicitors, including:
Papers of the Ducie family of Tortworth (D587, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Holborow family of Hawkesbury (D587, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Iles family of Hawkesbury (D587, Gloucestershire Archives)
Papers of the Venn family of Hawkesbury (D587, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Francillon and Willott of Dursley, solicitors, including papers of the Holbrow family of
Watts family of Hawkesbury, 1781-1879 (D654, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Penley, Milward and Bayley of Dursley, solicitors, including papers of the Harding
family of Monmouthshire, 1845-1891 (D2078, Gloucestershire Archives)
441
Places
Records of the Dorney family of Uley relating to Tresham (D3365, Gloucestershire Archives)
Large maps of Hawkesbury [undated] (C/CL/P/18, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs, undated, c.1955-74 including Hawkesbury, Stanley Wood (K371/19,
Inclosure
Local history material relating to Hawkesbury, including books, pamphlets, articles, maps,
Maps
Large maps of Hawkesbury [undated] (C/CL/P/18, Gloucestershire Archives)
and 1:2500 scale, 1970s and 1990s [coverage not complete] (OS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Justices’ order to maintain militiamen’s families, 1794-1800 (P170, Gloucestershire Archives)
Notice of a bounty given to a man to serve for the parish in His Majesty’s Navy, 1795 (P170,
Order to close St. Mary's Church, 1942 (P170, Gloucestershire Archives)
442
Places
Nonconformists
Records of Hillesley Baptist Church (D2889, Gloucestershire Archives)
Parish Councils
grounds, recreation grounds, war memorials and allotments in Hawkesbury, 1935-1945
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Alderley and Tresham
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Hawkesbury (P170,
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Hillesley (P178,
Photographs
Photographs of Hawkesbury, nd, [1920s] (D10579, Gloucestershire Archives)
Photographs and postcards of Hawkesbury (browse the online catalogue, Gloucestershire
Archives)
including:
Records of Gloucestershire Police including police station diary and offence book for
443
Places
Hawkesbury (Q/Y, Gloucestershire Archives)
Poor relief
Sale particulars
particulars of property in Hawkesbury, 1913 (D7879, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of premises in Hillesley, Hawkesbury, 1799 (RF156.16GS, RX156.2(8)GS,
Sale particulars of land at Hawkesbury Upton, 1880 (RX156.2(7)GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Sale particulars of Kilcot Mill, Hawkesbury, c.1984 (RR156.4GS, Gloucestershire Archives)
Schools
Records of the National Society, including plans of National School at Hawkesbury (D2186,
Records of the Gloucestershire Federation of Women's Institutes, including Hillesley Women’s
Institute, 1928-1984 (D2933, Gloucestershire Archives)
Land Tax assessment returns for Hawkesbury, 1775-1832 (Q/REl, Gloucestershire Archives)
444
Places
Archives)
Utilities - water
Gloucestershire County Council Committee papers including papers concerning Hawkesbury
water supply, 1938-41 (C/CC/W/1/67, Gloucestershire Archives)
concerning Hawkesbury water supply, 1938-39 (K149/5, Gloucestershire Archives)
Wills
445
Places
446
Places
Henbury
Henbury is an ancient parish. It includes Charlton, Compton, Hallen, Kings Weston, Lawrence
Weston and Stowick. It formerly included Aust, Northwick, Pilning and Redwick. Parts of
Henbury were transferred to Bristol between 1901 and 1935, and in 1935 it was abolished as a
parish and became part of Bristol and Almondsbury.
It is in the hundreds of Berkeley, Upper Henbury and Lower Henbury, and was in the Poor Law
Union of Barton Regis. It was in the Petty Sessions Division of Sodbury until 1982, and since
then has been in the Petty Sessions Division of North Avon; it was covered by Lawfords Gate
Highway Board.
1875-1895, then Barton Regis Rural District, 1895-1904, and Thornbury Rural District and
Bristol County Borough, 1904-1974. The part which was transferred to Almondsbury was in the
Northavon District of the County of Avon between 1974 and 1996, when it became part of the
unitary authority of South Gloucestershire.
It is in the Diocese of Bristol, and was in the Deanery of Bristol Rural, 1860-1886, Stapleton,
1886-1919, and has been in the Deanery of Clifton since 1919.
Barton Regis Rural District Council: notices of intent to erect and amend buildings in Henbury
parish, 1900-1904 (DA19, Gloucestershire Archives)
Census
1841-1901 census returns for Henbury (available in the searchroom, Bristol Record Office)
Charities
Papers relating to Kingsweston House, 1847 and 1936, and Kingsweston estate, 1921
Papers relating to lands of Queen Elizabeth's Hospital at Hallen Marsh, 1904 (33041, Bristol
Record Office)
Papers relating to manor of Henbury, 1657-1835 (33041, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Robert Sandford's Bequest concerning Henbury Church Lands, relating to
Ableton, Stowick and Henbury (35749, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Anthony Edmond's and Christopher Cole's Charities relating to Henbury Free
School (35749, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Henbury Village Hall Charity (42573, Bristol Record Office)
447
Places
Archives)
Deeds
Deed of property in Henbury 1675 (D247, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds and related papers of property in Henbury [1658]-1737 (D185, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Crooks Marsh (8930, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Henbury (43696, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Henbury, 13th century-20th century (see person and place indexes in
Deeds of property in Henbury, 1638-1768 (7837, Bristol Record Office)
Deeds of property in Henbury, 1650-1735 (D333, Gloucestershire Archives)
Deeds of property in Henbury, 1677 (7966, Bristol Record Office)
Henbury (D3789, Gloucestershire Archives)
Compton (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Fussell and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of property in Charlton (35447,
including deeds and related papers relating to property in Henbury, 17th -20th centuries (32395,
Henbury (41214, Bristol Record Office )
Records of Meade King and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including deeds of Coombe House,
Henbury, 1680 (D4769, Gloucestershire Archives)
property in Henbury and Lawrence Weston, from the Player family of Bristol, 1719-1881 (12161,
Records of the Cann Lippincott family of Over Court, Almondsbury, including deeds, 1652-19th
century (D10904, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of the Chester family including deeds and related papers of property in Henbury,
Records of the Gingell family of Thornbury, including deeds of property in Henbury (D4018,
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Henbury and Charlton,
including the Blaise Castle Estate (28048, Bristol Record Office)
448
Places
deed of property in Kings Weston, 1627, and Henbury (HA, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Jefferis family of Henbury, including deeds and related papers of Hill End House,
Henbury, 19th century (38797, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Willoughby family of Bristol, including deeds of property in Henbury and Kings
Weston, 1643-1723 (09465, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Wells, Hodsman, Crossman and Co of Thornbury, including deeds of Blaise Castle
Diocesan records
Orders in Council, 1844-1909, relating to parishes in Henbury (GDR/V7, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Papers concerning non-residence of incumbent in benefice of Henbury (with Aust and
Northwick), 1872 (GDR/D13, Gloucestershire Archives)
Presentations to the parish of Henbury, 1860 (GDR/D1, Gloucestershire Archives)
Electoral records
Electoral registers for Henbury, 1832-1954 (Q/REr, Gloucestershire Archives)
Office)
Carter family (D1606, Gloucestershire Archives)
Records of Gamlen, Bowerman and Forward, solicitors of London, including papers concerning
Merrett family referring to the Harris, Hobbs, Merrett and Tynte families, 1555-1700 (6685,
including surveys of Henbury, late 18th century and 1837 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Records of Osborne Clarke of Bristol, solicitors, including papers concerning Kings Weston
House (41965, Bristol Record Office)
Papers of the Miles and Southwell families relating to Charlton and Stowick, 1528-1852, and
to Kings Weston, 1811-1839 (12154, Bristol Record Office)
449
Places
Papers of the Miles and Southwell families relating to Kings Weston and Lawrence Weston,
Papers of the Player family, 1755-1851 (12161, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Beaufort family of Badminton relating to Charlton (D2700, Gloucestershire
Archives)
Records of the Blaise Castle Estate, including deeds and related papers,18th and 19th
Records of the Bright family relating to Hung Road (11168, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Records of the Elbridge family, including legal papers concerning the estate of Christopher
Cole, relating to Stowick, 1776 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Harford family of Bristol, including papers concerning the Blaise Castle Estate
and the Kings Weston Estate at Lawrence Weston, and the Salutation Inn, Henbury, 1790
Records of the Sampson-Way family relating to Henbury, 18th-19th centuries, including records
relating to Stowick and Ableton, plan of proposed bungalows, 1898, photographs, 1926, and
sale catalogue of Henbury Manor Estate, 1947 (36553, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Southwell family of Kings Weston (12964, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Warren Jane family (09808, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Archives)
Inclosure
450
Places
Local history material relating to Henbury, including books, pamphlets, articles, photographs
Manorial records
Reference Library)
to the manor of Elmington, 1559-1574 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, including manorial records relating to Henbury
Hundred, 1436-1821 (AC, Bristol Record Office)
Maps
Isaac Taylor's maps of Kings Weston, Lawrence Weston and Stowick, 1773 (29351, Bristol
Record Office )
John J de Wilstar's book of surveys, including Stowick, 1742 (04480, Bristol Record Office)
Map of Charlton in Henbury (Harry Lane maps, Bristol Record Office)
Map of estates of Edward Southwell at Kings Weston by Isaac Taylor, 1772 (26570, Bristol
Record Office )
Christopher Cole's Charities, including map of the Kings Weston estate at Lawrence Weston
and map showing Severn House (35749, Bristol Record Office)
including:
Maps and plans relating to Henbury, 1840, and Charlton, 1841 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and plans relating to Kings Weston and the Kingsweston Estate, Crooks Marsh,
Chittening, Stowick and Henbury (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps and surveys relating to property in Henbury, 17th -20th centuries (32395, Bristol
Record Office)
Maps of Crooks Marsh, Stowick,1799, Marsh Common, 1815, Henbury, 1825 and 1840, and
Charlton, 1841 (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Maps of Henbury School area, Kings Weston House area, Kings Weston and Lawrence
Weston, Redwick and Northwick, and Stowick (31965, Bristol Record Office)
Archives)
Reprint of a map of Henbury parish from the Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer, 1883
451
Places
(6413, Bristol Reference Library)
Record Office)
Nonconformists
Records of Clifton and Redland Methodist Circuit, including Lawrence Weston chapel (37979,
Records of Brentry Methodist Church, Henbury, 1957-2006 (44524, 44609, Bristol Record
Office)
Records of Osborne, Ward, Vassall, Abbott and Co of Bristol, solicitors, including plans of the
Friends' Meeting House, Lawrence Weston, 19th century, from the Player family (12161, Bristol
Record Office)
Parish Councils
Records of Henbury Parish Council (1579, Bristol Record Office)
Parish records
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for Hallen from 1931
(P/StJH, Bristol Record Office )
Parish records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, for He

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