Abson or Abston, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village is 3 miles SE of Mangotsfield station on the M.R., and 7 NW of Bath, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Kingswood. The parish contains also the villages of Bridgegate, Holbrook, and Wick; the last-named was made a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1880. Acreage of Abson and Wick, 2521; population of Abson, 223; of Wick, 752. The living is a chapelry, annexed to Pucklechurch, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church at Abson is an ancient stone building in the Early English style. There is a church at Wick, built in 1850, and Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. Roman relics are found from time to time at Wick, which is supposed to be the site of a Roman pottery; a Roman camp is adjacent.
