Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OLVESTON

OLVESTON, a village, a tything, and a parish, in Thornbury district, Gloucester. The village stands 2¾ miles E S E of the Severn, 2¾ N N E of piling r. station, and 3¼ S W of Thornbury; and has a post-office under Bristol. The tything includes the village, and bears the name of Olveston and Cote. Real property, £6, 848. Pop. in 1851, 789. Houses, 156. The parish contains also the tything of Upper Tockington, and comprises 4, 787 acres. Real property, £12, 795. Pop. in 1861, 1, 699. Houses, 337. The property is subdivided. The manor of Olveston belonged anciently to the Dennis family; and belongs now to R.Lippincott, Esq. The manor of Tockington belongs to the Rev. J. R. Charlton. Olveston-Green, Freezewood, Fern Park, New Leaze House, Oakleaze, Harts, Ridgeway, Lower Hazel, Woodhouse, and Tockington House are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £799.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church is partly early English; was repaired and considerably enlarged in 1840; consists of nave, transepts, aisles, and chancel, with Sporch and pinnacled tower; and contains an old brass of Sir W. Dennis. There are chapels for Quakers, Wesleyans, and United Free Methodists, a mixed national school, an infant school, and charities £12.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village, a tything, and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Olveston AP/CP       Thornbury RegD/PLU       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Olveston

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