STOKE-GIFFORD, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"STOKE-GIFFORD, a parish in the upper division of Henbury hundred, county Gloucester, 5 miles N.E. of Bristol, its post town, and 3½ N.W. of Mangotsfield railway station. The village, which is small, and chiefly agricultural, is situated on the road from Bristol to Gloucester. The soil is of a clayey nature, with a subsoil of brown limestone. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £60. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient structure with a tower and three bells. The parochial charities produce about £37 per annum. There is a village school for both sexes. The Duke of Beaufort is lord of the manor and owner of the soil."

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