Description
Alveston, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on the Gloucester and Bristol road, 1 1/4 mile S of Tliombury, with a post office (R.S.O.); money order and telegrapli office, Thornbury. Acreage, 2563; population, 759. Vestiges of Roman camps occur in the vicinity. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value, £300. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church is an ancient stone edifice in the Early English style, and contains an ancient Norman font. A new church has been erected about a mile distant. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. The parish also includes the hamlets of Earthcott and (part of) Rudgway.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
