STOKE BISHOP, Gloucestershire
- Original source material relating to Stoke Bishop, and other parishes in
Diocese of Bristol may be found at the
Bristol Record Office.
- "STOKE BISHOP, a tything in the parish of Westbury-upon-Trym, lower division
of Henbury hundred, county Gloucester, 2 miles N.W. of Bristol. It was once
the seat of the Lippincotts. The village, which is considerable, may be
reckoned a suburb of Bristol. The living is a perpetual curacy in the
diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, in the patronage of trustees. The church
is modern."
[Description from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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