COMPTON GREENFIELD, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"COMPTON GREENFIELD, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of Henbury, in the county of Gloucester, 6 miles N. of Bristol. It is situated near the mouth of the river Severn. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £144, in the patronage of R. C. Lippincott, Esq. The church is a stone edifice in the early English style, and was, with the exception of the tower, rebuilt in 1852. The lord of the manor is R. C. Lippincott, Esq."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]