Alveston, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on the Gloucester and Bristol road, 1 1/2 mile S of Thornbury, with a post office (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph 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.
