Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WESTBURY-ON-TRYM

WESTBURY-ON-TRYM, a village and a parish in Clifton district, Gloucester. The village stands 1¾ mile W of Ashley-Hill r. station, and 3¼ NNW of Bristol; and has a post-office‡ under Bristol, reading rooms, and a police station. The parish includes Stoke-Bishop and Shirehampton tythings; and comprises 5,236 acres of land, and 220 of water. Real property, £52,486; of which £268 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 6,728: in 1861, 8,329. Houses, 1,409. The increase of pop. arose mainly from residence of many principal merchants and manufacturers of Bristol. The property is much subdivided. Cote House, Cote Lodge, Cote Bank, Eastfield, Southmead, Northcote, the Priory, Holmwood, Burfield, Springfield, Henleaze, and others are chief residences. A monastery was founded here in 824; was refounded, as a cell to Worcester priory, in 1290; was re-refounded, as a college, in 1443; was given, at the dissolution, to Sir R. Sadler; and was burnt by the royalists in the civil wars of Charles I. The living is a vicarage, with Redland chapelry, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £630.* Patrons, alternately W. H. Wharton, Esq., and Trustees. The church is very good; and there are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a convent, national schools, and charities £194. The p. curacies of Stoke-Bishop and Shirehampton are separate benefices.


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

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Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Westbury on Trym CP/AP       Barton Regis RegD/PLU       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Westbury on Trym

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