A guide to archive sources for the history of South Gloucestershire Screenshot from the Know Your Place website (www.kyp.org.uk) showing historic and modern maps of Thornbury Published by Gloucestershire Archives in partnership with South Gloucestershire Council February 2018 (fifth 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 .................................................................................................... 513 Acton Turville ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 513 Almondsbury .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 513 Alveston ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 514 Aust .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 514 Avonmouth ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 515 Barton Regis .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 515 Bitton ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 516 Bristol ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 516 Charfield ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 517 Chipping Sodbury............................................................................................................................................................................................. 517 Clifton ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 518 Coalpit Heath ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 518 Cold Ashton ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 519 1 Compton Greenfield ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 519 Cromhall ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 520 Dodington ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 520 Downend .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 521 Doynton ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 521 Dyrham and Hinton .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 522 Elberton ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 522 Falfield ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 523 Filton ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 523 Fishponds ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 523 Frampton Cotterell ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 524 Frenchay .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 524 Great Badminton .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 525 Hanham Abbots ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 525 Hawkesbury ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 526 Henbury ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 526 Hill .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 527 Horfield ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 528 Horton .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 528 Iron Acton ........................................................................................................................................................................................................