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Filton, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Filton or Fylton, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, 5 miles N of Bristol. There is a station on the Bristol and South Wales branch of the G.W.R., and a post office (Fylton) under Bristol; money order and telegraph office, Horfield. Acreage, 1025; population, 311. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £199 with residence. The church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1845, and contains a stone coffin, which was discovered at the rebuilding.

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 parishFilton St. Peter 
HundredBerkeley 
Poor Law unionClifton 

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


Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Filton 1653-1812, Gloucestershire is available to browse online.

The parish register dates from 1563.

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


Churches

Church of England

St. Peter (parish church)

The church of St. Peter is a small building of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, transept, south aisle, south porch and a low tower containing 5 bells: there is a stone pulpit and some carved oak seats, and in the south aisle is a stone coffin, discovered in the south wall of the transept during the alterations: the church was rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, and enlarged in 1845, and in 1908 was renovated at a cost of £180, and has 120 sittings.

Methodist

Wesleyan 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 Filton from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Filton 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 districtBS34
Post TownBristol

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