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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"FRENCHAY, a tything in the parish of Winterbourne, upper division of the hundred of Langley, county Gloucester, 4 miles N.E. of Bristol, its post town, and 6 S.W. of Chipping-Sodbury. It is situated on a tributary of the river Avon, and is a separate ecclesiastical district, including the tything of Hambrook and some portion of Winterbourne Down. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £500, in the patronage of St. John's College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Frenchay House is the principal residence."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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- Original source material relating to Frenchay, and other parishes in Diocese of Bristol may be found at the Bristol Record Office.
- The transcription of the section for Frenchay from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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- "Ecclesiastical parish formed from Winterbourne, 1836, Bristol Diocese."
(Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)
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