Description
Brislington, a parish in Somersetshire, on the river Avon and the G.W.R., 2 1/2 miles SE of Bristol, and 119 from London. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Bristol. Acreage, 2309; population, 1771. Brislington Hall is the chief residence. Brislington House is a large and well-arranged lunatic asylum. Brislington Tunnel, on the line of the railway, goes through the shale and sandstone of the coal-measures, is 3148 feet long, and has four ventilating shafts. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £270. Patron. the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is good, and was restored and enlarged in 1874. There are also Wesleyan and Congregational chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
