Siston, Gloucestershire

Description
Siston, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, 2 miles E by S of Mangotsfield station on the M.R., and 6 ENE of Bristol. Post town, Mangotsfield, under Bristol; money order and telegraph office, Pucklechurch. Acreage, 1833; population of the civil parish, 1200; of the ecclesiastical, 375. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Siston Court is a fine Elizabethan mansion, in which Queen Anne of Denmark was entertained in 1613. Malting and the manufacture of stone pipes are carried on, but the boot and shoe trade is the chief industry. A Roman settlement was at Over. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £197 with residence. The church, Early English, contains an ancient leaden font.