Stapleton, Gloucestershire

Description
Stapleton, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands 1 1/2 mile N of Stapleton Road station on the G.W.R., 1 1/2 W of Fishponds station on the M.R., and 2 miles NE of Bristol, and has a post and money order office under Fishponds (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Fishponds. The parish includes the ecclesiastical parishes of Eastville and Fishponds, is suburban to Bristol, and within Bristol parliamentary borough. Acreage, 2573; population of the civil parish, 14,589; of the ecclesiastical, 1130. It is governed by an urban district council of fifteen members. There are numerous good residences. A palace for the Bishops of Gloucester and Bristol was built in 1840, and is now occupied by Colston's School. Stoke Park, a seat of the Duke of Beaufort, is a fine mansion standing on the summit of a steep hill. It was erected in the reign of Elizabeth by Sir Richard Berkeley, was much injured in the Rebellion, and was restored about 1760, It stands in a park of about 600 acres. Oldbury Court is an ancient mansion. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £250 with residence. The church was built in 1856, and is in the Decorated style, with tower and lofty spire.