Description
Cold Ashton, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, 5 1/4 miles N of Bath, and 8 S of Chipping Sodbury. Post town, Marshfield, under Chippenham. Acreage, 2389 ; population, 344. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £410 with residence. The church was partially rebuilt by Thomas Keys about 1510, to whose memory there is a small brass. There are also some monuments, chiefly to the families of the Whittingtons, Gunnings, and Bushes. There is a handsome Elizabethan manor house in the possession of Earl Temple, the lord of the manor.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
