Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire

Description
Pucklechurch, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands 3 miles NE of Mangotsfield station on the M.R., and 5 SSW of Chipping Sodbury. It was once a. market-town, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bristol. The parish contains also the hamlet of Shortwood. Acreage, 2261; population of the civil parish, 1335 ; of the ecclesiastical, 1555. There is a parish council consisting of nine members and a chairman. The manor belongs to the Earl of Radnor. Shortwood Lodge is a chief residence. There are several coal pits. King Edmund I. was killed here in 946 by the robber Liofa as he sat at a-banquet on the feast of Sb Augustine. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Abson, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £371 with residence. Patrons,. the Dean and Chapter of Wells. The church is Early English and Decorated, and was restored in 1889. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.