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Cold Ashton, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Cold Ashton, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, 5¼ miles N of Bath, and 8 S of Chipping Sodbury. Post town, Marshfield, under Chippenham. Acreage, 2389; population, 344. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £410 with residence. The church was partially rebuilt by Thomas Keys about 1510, to whose memory there is a small brass. There are also some monuments, chiefly to the families of the Whittingtons, Gunnings, and Bushes. There is a handsome Elizabethan manor house in the possession of Earl Temple, the lord of the manor.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyGloucestershire 
Ecclesiastical parishCold Ashton Holy Trinity 
HundredPuckle-Church 
Poor Law unionChipping 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The parish register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1734; marriages, 1754.

The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.


Churches

Church of England

Holy Trinity (parish church)

The church of the Holy Trinity is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting rof chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 2 bells: there is a mural brass in the chancel, with a Latin inscription of six lines to Thomas Key, rector, and builder of the church, c. 1500: there is a hagioscope on the south side of the chancel arch, and on the opposite side is the entrance to the ancient rood loft, with a spiral staircase: the carved oak pulpit, in which it is said Bishop Latimer preached, is richly moulded, and has a canopy with crocketed finials: the church was partially repewed in 1852, and in 1894 was entirely reseated and refloored, at a cost of about £1,100, raised by subscriptions: an organ, the gift of Miss Ward, was also erected at a cost of about £400: there are sittings for 300 persons.

Congregational

Congregational Chapel

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Cold Ashton from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Cold Ashton are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Gloucestershire online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.

CountySouth Gloucestershire
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtSN14
Post TownChippenham

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