Littleton on SevernExtract from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.Transcribed by Mel Lockie, © Copyright 2010 Lewis Topographical Dictionaries LITTLETON-upon-SEVERN, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of LANGLEY-and-SWINEHEAD, county of GLOUCESTER, 2 miles (W.) from Thornbury, containing 133 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the jurisdiction of the Consistorial Court of the Bishop of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £11. 4. 9½. Sir H.C. Lippincott, Bart, was patron in 1810. The navigable river Severn runs on the western side of this parish. |
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