Oldland, Gloucestershire

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, 1 1/2 mile N of Bitton station on the M.R., and 5 1/2 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, tran-septsk, and a bell-turret. There are Baptist, Congregational, and Primitive Methodist chapels. Kingswood, in Old-land hamlet, forms a separate ecclesiastical parish.