Littleton-on-Severn, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

Littleton on Servern is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire

Alternative names: Littleton-upon-Severn

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1701

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LITTLETON-UPON-SEVERN, a parish in Thornbury district, Gloucester; on the river Severn, 3 miles W of Thornbury, and 4¼ NNE of New Passage r. station. Post town, Almondsbury, under Bristol.

Acres, 1,665; of which 690 are water. Real property, £1,793; of which £15 are in fisheries. Pop., 195. Houses, 41. The property is divided among a few. The manor and most of the land belong to R. Lippincott, Esq.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £52. Patron, R. Lippincott, Esq. The church is early English, in good condition; consists of nave, aisle, and chancel, with porch and tower; and has a Norman font.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Littleton-upon-Severn, 2 m. W. Thornbury. P. 195

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850

Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Littleton-upon-Severn, co. Gloucester. P. T. Thornbury (120) 2 m. W. Pop. 133.

A parish in the lower division of the hundred of Langley and Swineshead; living, a dis. rectory in the archdeaconry of Gloucester and diocese of Bristol; valued in K.B. 11l. 4s. 9½d.; ann. val. P. R. 62l.; patron (1829) Sir H. C. Lippincott, Bart.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. II; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.

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Littleton-on-Severn Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1863

Littleton-on-Severn is a parish, 12 miles north from Bristol, 10 south-west from Charfield, 5 from Almondsbury, and 3 from Thornbury, in Langley and Swineshead hundred, Thornbury union and county court district, West Gloucestershire, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Bristol, and Gloucester and Bristol bishopric; it is situated on the navigable river Severn.

The church (name unknown) is an old stone building in the Early English style; it has a tower, nave, aisle, porch, chancel, organ, 2 bells, and an ancient Norman font. The living is a rectory, value £52, with residence, in the gift of R. C. Lippincott, Esq.; the Rev. Arthur Rainey Ludlow, M.A., of Oriel College, Oxford, is the incumbent.

There is a school for the children of the parish, supported by subscription. The population in 1801 was 195; the acreage is 903. R. C. Lippincott, Esq., is lord of the manor and chief landowner.

Ludlow Rev. Arthur Rainey, [rector] M.A.

Collins Ann (Mrs.), farmer

Gough Samuel, farmer

Jones Sarah (Mrs.), farmer

Jones James, shopkeeper

Jones Robert, farmer

Jones William (Mrs.), farmer

Keen Charles, farmer

Olive Henry A. farmer

Simmons Daniel, carpenter & builder

Stafford George, farmer

Stiff Hannah & Caroline (Misses), farmrs

Taylor Joseph, farmer

Taylor William Robert, farmer

Williams Thomas, beer retailer

Wintle George, coal merchant, drain & horticultural pottery works

Letters are received through Almondsbury. The nearest money order office is at Thornbury

Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and the City of Bristol, Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1863.

Administration

County: Gloucestershire
Civil Registration District: Thornbury
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Bristol (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
Rural Deanery: Bristol
Poor Law Union: Thornbury
Hundred: Langley and Swinehead
Province: Canterbury