Winterbourne, Gloucestershire

Description
Winterbourne, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands 2 miles E of Patchway and Stoke Gifford station on the South Wales branch of the G.W.R., and 6 1/2 NNE of Bristol, with a post and money order office under Bristol; telegraph office, Frampton Cotterell. The parish includes Winterbourne and Hambrook tithings, and corn prises 3030 acres; population of the civil parish, 3350; of the ecclesiastical, 1383. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. Winterbourne Down and Frenchay form separate ecclesiastical parishes. Part of the old manor house is incorporated in the buildings of the Court Farm. Hill House, Winterbourne Park, and Crossley House are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £605 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church is mainly Early English, with pinnacled tower and fine spire, and was partly rebuilt in 1842, and again in 1876. It contains a finely carved reredos and some ancient monuments and brasses. There are Free Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, and alms-houses. See WINTERBOURNE DOWN and FRENCHAY.