Oldland, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Oldland, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish partly in Bitton parish, Gloucestershire. The village stands near the river Avon, at the boundary with Somerset, 1½ mile N of Bitton station on the M.R., and 5½ miles ESE of Bristol. It has a post and money order office, called Oldland Common, under Bristol; telegraph office, Bitton railway station. The township includes the village, and comprises 2282 acres; population, 8837. There are collieries. Besides a parish council for Bitton, there is one for the rural district of hamlet of Oldland. The ecclesiastical parish is partly included in the hamlet, and was constituted in 1862. Population, 1856. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £316 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Bitton. The church is in the Early English style, and consists of apsidal chancel, nave, transepts, and a bell-turret. There are Baptist, Congregational, and Primitive Methodist chapels. Kingswood, in Oldland hamlet, forms a separate ecclesiastical parish.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Gloucestershire | |
| Civil parish | Bitton | |
| Hundred | Langley and Swinehead | |
| Poor Law union | Keynsham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates only from the year 1814, earlier entries being included in the registers of Bitton.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
All Saints, Longwell Green
St. Anne (parish church)
The church of St. Anne, erected in 1829, on the site of a 12th or 13th century structure serving as a chapel of ease to Bitton, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, transepts, with an open turret containing one bell: seven of the windows are stained, and there are 300 sittings.
Baptist
Baptist Chapel
Congregational
Congregational Chapel
Methodist
Primitive Methodist Chapel
Primitive Methodist Chapel
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Oldland from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Oldland are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Gloucestershire online:
- Gloucester Citizen
- Gloucester Journal
- Gloucestershire Chronicle
- Gloucestershire Echo
- Cheltenham Chronicle
- Cheltenham Looker-On
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.