A guide to archive sources for the history of South Gloucestershire Motor bus outside the Swan Hotel, Thornbury, serving Horfield, Filton, Patchway, Almondsbury, Alveston and Thornbury, c.1910 [GPS/330/29 Gloucestershire Archives] Published by Gloucestershire Archives in partnership with South Gloucestershire Council February 2016 (fourth edition) Table of contents How to use this guide .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Archive provision in South Gloucestershire .......................................................................................................................................................... 8 The City of Bristol and its record keeping ............................................................................................................................................................. 9 The county of Gloucestershire and its recordkeeping ........................................................................................................................................ 12 Church records .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 14 Barton Regis: an explanation of the use of the name ........................................................................................................................................ 16 Kingswood: a detailed history ............................................................................................................................................................................ 16 Further reading .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 17 Sources for the history of South Gloucestershire .............................................................................................................................................. 18 Brief introductions to each of the parishes within South Gloucestershire .................................................................................................... 509 Acton Turville ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 509 Almondsbury .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 509 Alveston ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 510 Aust .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 510 Avonmouth ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 511 Barton Regis .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 511 Bitton ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 512 Bristol ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 512 Charfield ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 513 Chipping Sodbury............................................................................................................................................................................................. 513 Clifton ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 514 Coalpit Heath ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 514 Cold Ashton ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 515 1 Compton Greenfield ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 515 Cromhall ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 516 Dodington ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 516 Downend .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 517 Doynton ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 517 Dyrham and Hinton .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 518 Elberton ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 518 Falfield ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 519 Filton ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 519 Fishponds ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 519 Frampton Cotterell ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 520 Frenchay .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 520 Great Badminton .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 521 Hanham Abbots ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 521 Hawkesbury ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 522 Henbury ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 522 Hill .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 523 Horfield ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 524 Horton .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 524 Iron Acton ........................................................................................................................................................................................................