Olveston, Gloucestershire

Description
Olveston, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands 2 1/2 miles ESE of the Severn, and 3 SW of Thornbury, and has a post office under Almondsbury (R.S.O); money order and telegraph office, Tockington. The parish contains also the tithing of Tockington, the hamlet of Inst, and part of the hamlet of Rudgeway. Acreage, 4571; population of the civil parish, 1427; of the ecclesiastical, 1435. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor of Olveston belonged anciently to the Dennis family, and belongs now to the Cann-Lippincott family. The manor of Tockington belongs to the Salmon family. Friezewood, Oakleaze, Woodhouse, Oldown House, and Tockington Manor House are chief residences. Fairs are held at Tockington on 9 May and 6 Dec. for cattle. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £550 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church is partly Norman and partly Perpendicular. It was repaired and considerably enlarged in 1840, and the interior was restored in 1888; consists of nave, transepts, aisles, and chancel, with S porch and pinnacled tower; and contains an old brass of Sir W. Dennis. There are Wesleyan and United Free Methodist chapels.