FRAMPTON COTTERELL LOCAL HISTORY REFERENCES

Church of England

Anon: Builder, 16(1858), pp.507-508. Description of rebuilt church.

Anon: Gentleman's Magazine. 1806, p.1211. Inscription on tomb ("stone slab in the parish church")
In memory of "Amy the daughter of Harry Symes and Ann his wife, daughter of Sir John Seymour".

Anon: The Soul of the West Country. No.67 (Frampton Cotterell), Western Daily Press?, December 1926.
(Photograph only)

Anon: The Star (London), February 20th 1808. Advertisement of sale of living.

T.W. Belcher: A Thousand year old Parish. (Repr. from "South Gloucestershire Chronicle" 23rd February 1901).
Thornbury, E. Brown, Chronicle Offices (1901?)
Church history and much complaint about the diminution of rectorial privilege.

D.S. Bennett: St Peter's Frampton Cotterell. 1987. 2-page church guide.

Building News. 3 (1857) p.80. Advertisement of contract.

W. Blades: Books in Chains. Elliott Stock, 1892, pp.45-46.
A chained copy of Bishop John Jewel's "Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae" in Frampton Cotterell Church.

H.T. Ellacombe: The Church bells in the towers and turrets of all the parish churches in Gloucestershire.
Trans. of the Exeter Architectural and Archaeological Society, 1877.

'Gazette', Saturday, November 5th, 1960. Formation of fund to restore church bells.

W.J. Robinson: West Country Churches. Vol.2, pp.118-122. Bristol, Bristol Times & Mirror, 1914.

D. Verey: The Buildings of Gloucestershire. Vol.2. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1970, pp.189-190.

Congregational Church

P. Grant: Zion Congregational Chapel, Frampton Cotterell.
Bristol Christian Leader, 4 No.45, August 15th, 1895, pp.226-231. Centenary history.

I. Jones: Bristol Congreationalism City and Country. Bristol, Arrowsmith, 1947, pp.179-183.

Court Farm

Anon: Gentleman's Magazine. 1806, p.1211.

Dursley Gazette. July 22nd, 1939 (Letter).

Domesday Book

J.S. Moore ed.: Domesday Book 15 Gloucestershire. Chichester, Phillimore, 1982. Sect. 58.4.

Education

J.Moore: Why there are 3 Rs in Rectory Road: 150 Years of Frampton Cotterell
Church of England School 1843-1993.
Frampton Cotterell Church of England School, 1993.

Elections

Trans. Bristol and Gloucs. Arch. Society, 58 (1936), p.195.

Gloucester Journal. December 8th, 1894. Returns for all Gloucestershire Parish Council elections.
See also Parish Council Elections 1894.

Field Names

Penny Lane Leaze. Bristol Mirror, 57 (No. 2899), August 14th, 1830. p.1., col.5.

Hatting

Anon: A Day at a Hat Factory, Penny Magazine, Suppl. to issue of January 30th, 1841, pp.41-48.
A description of the processes at Christy's Bermondsey factory but applicable also locally.

Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 10. May l0th, 1761. (Describes a Whit-Monday procession of local hatters).

George Dodd: Days at the Factories. August Kelley, 1967.
(Reprints "A Day at a Hat Factory" Penny Magazine Suppl. to issue of 30-1-1841, pp.41- 48)

P.M. Giles: The Felt Hatting Industry c.1500-1800, Trans. Lancashire and Cheshire
Antiquarian Society, 69 (1959), pp.104-132.

D. Vintner: Early hat-making in Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire Countryside, 10, pt.1, April 1958, pp.12-13.

D. Vintner: Village hatters, Hatters' Gazette, March-April 1958, pp.62-63.

Highways

Ditch, bridge and roads in Frampton Cotterell, ? Flower: Public Works in Medieval Law,
Publications of the Selden Society, Vol.32, pp.148-149.
("Ditch between Sopmylne and le Werehous"/ bridges called "Hungersbrigge" and
"Copmullesbrig", 1378, 1387.)

'Gazette, 19th June, 1965.
'Bristol Evening Post', 22nd January, 1969.
Rectory Road Bridge.

Industrial Archaeology

R.A. Buchanan and N. Cossons: The Industrial Archaeology of the Bristol Region, Newton Abbot,
David and Charles, 1969, pp.128, 140-141, 160, 247, 249, 252, 263, 268, 279.

Law and Order

Anon: Bonner and Middleton's Bristol Journal, December 1796.
Theft of meat from butcher's shop in Frampton Cotterell.

Manor

Abstracts of Inq. Post Mortem for Gloucs. Part 4.
Brit. Record Society, Vol.30.
1245, p.4.
1273, p.60.

Abstracts of Inq. Post Mortem for Gloucs. Part 1.
Brit. Record Society, Vol.9.
1627, pp.50-51
1628, pp.96-97

Order for extent of manor 1301. (BL. Add. MS. 19302).
(British Library: Index of Manuscripts in the British Library, Chadwyck~Healey,
Cambridge, 1984, Vol.4, p.287.

Methodists

Free - "Bethel". Anon: Bristol Christian Leader, 3 No. 29, 1894, p.158.
Free Methodist Church Sunday School building.

Wesleyan - "Wesleyan Chapel".
(J. Pyer et al.): Tent Methodists Magazine, 1, 1823, pp.54-55, 78-79, 103-104, 128,
150, 175, 197-198, 223, 249, 270-271.

Mills

Cog Mill.
H.B. Hopkins: Cog Mill on the River Frome, BIAS Journal, 13, 1980, p.18.

H.B. Hopkins: Frampton Cotterell Mill, BIAS Journal, 14, 1982, pp.25-27.

Woodend Road. D. Casson: the House that Jack will Build, Bristol Evening Post, No. 9854
(March 13th, 1964), p.7. Trivial and rubbishy but all there is in print.

Woodend Road. Loxton Collection at Bristol Central Library.  Illus. Windmill, Woodend Road

Mining

J. Anstie: The Coal Fields of Gloucestershire and Somersetshire and their resources. London, 1873.
____ repr. 19?, Kingsmead Press, Bath.

Colliery Guardian, November 13th, 1874, pp.704-705.
(Translation of article from a German source by Hill and Fairley. Names of original
authors not stated. Includes cross-section of coalfield along line of Church Road.)

H. Cossham: The Northern end of the Bristol Coalfield.
Trans. North of England Inst. of Mining Engineers, 10, (1862) pp.97-104.

Great Britain: Parliamentary Paper, Reports from Commissioners 1842, Vol.3 (382).
Appendix to First Report of Commissioners. Mines Part II. Report by Elijah Waring
on the Employment of Children and Young Persons in the Collieries of South
Gloucestershire ... 1842.

J.U. Nef: The Rise of the British Coal Industry, Vol.1, p.73.
Mentions mining in "Frameton Cottred" in 1675.

J.T. Onions: The Northern portion of the Bristol Coalfield.
Trans. Instn. of Mining Engineers, 28 (1904/05), pp.26-32.

C.J. Spittal: Iron mining in Frampton Cotterell. The Magazine [of the] Avon Industrial
Buildings Trust. AICHAM Magazine, No.4 (Summer 1987) pp.14-17.

Nonconformity

'Gazette'. Saturday, January 6th, 1968.Unification of the chapels.

P. Grant: Nonconformists at Frampton Cotterell, Bristol Christian Leader 3 No.33, 1894, pp.276-277.
Answer to Church of England hostility.

C.J. Spittal: The local history of nonconformist churches, Zion News, February-November 1987.
____ rev. repr. with title 'Notes on the local history of the Free Churches of Frampton Cotterell.
(Staple Hill, priv. pub., 1992)

Northwoods House

Architect and Building Operative 1, (1849), p.93. Extensions made 1849-50.
Architect named as Charles Underwood.

Medical Directory. 1852, p.658.

R. Thorne (ed): The Iron revolution: architects, engineers and structural innovation 1718-
1880: essays to accompany an exhibition at the RIBA Heinz Gallery June-July 1990, pp.35-36.
System of fireproof flooring invented c.1833 and used in house.

Parish Council Elections: 1894

Gloucester Journal. December 8th, 1894.
Bristol Christian Leader 4, (No. 38), 1895, p.37.
(Religious affiliations of those elected)

Parish Records

(Bristol Records Office): Records of the ancient Parish of St. Peter. FramptonCotterell, 1981.
Typescript list of deposit made by Reverend J.M. Clutterbuck (January 1981)

Personalia

H.H. Harding. Meteorologist. Bristol Evening World, February 12th, 1947.

H.G. Matthews. Inventor.
E.H.G. Barwell: The Death Ray Man, Hutchinson, 1943.
Times, July 5th, 1912. (Wireless telephone).
Times. September 28th, 1921. (Talking films).

I. Robbins. Village historian and Broadcaster. 'Gazette', October 24th, 1964.

Planning Surveys

Population

S. Hillyard: Migration to and from Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire between 1851
and 1881. 26pp. 1997.
(Final Project Report for Open University Course DA301)

Probate Inventories

J.S. Moore: The Goods and Chattels of our Forefathers: Frampton Cotterell and district
probate inventories 1639-1804. Chichester, Phillimore, 1976.

Property Sales

Bristol Mirror 57 (No. 2899), August 14th, 1830, p.1., col.5.
Sale of properties in Park Lane area near hat factory. Reference to 'Penny Lane
Leaze' as field name.

Railways

J. S. Gilks: Building a branch line from Yate to Thornbury. Railway World, 18 (1957), pp.280-281.

C.G. Maggs: The Thornbury Branch. Railway Magazine, 103, 1957, pp.866-868.

K. Robertson and D. Abbott: GWR the Badminton Line, a portrait of a railway.
Alan Sutton, 1988, especially pp.126-140 for Coalpit Heath and Winterbourne.

Salvation Army

K. Polgrain: Grand Opening of Frampton Cotterell. War Cry. 1882, 24 No.8, p.1.

Severnside Development

Western Daily Press, No.36, 884, Wednesday, May 19th, 1971.
Bristol Evening Post, No.12, 058, Wednesday May 19th, 1971.
South Gloucestershire Gazette, Saturday, May 22nd, 1971.
Bristol Evening Post, Wednesday, June 23rd, 1971.

Social Structure

'Gazette', February 3rd, 1962, p.15. City folk move into a village.
J.Smyth: Men and Armour (1608). repr. Gloucester, Alan Sutton.

Social Welfare

Anon: Bristol Gazette and Public Advertiser, 51, No.2610, November 13th, 1817, p2.
Report of a Kingswood Provident Institution intended to serve Frampton Cotterell and
other local villages.

Bristol Evening Post, Wednesday, December 14th, 1966.
Social Hall at back of Co-operative Stores, Woodend Road.

Sport

Frampton Cotterell Cricket Club: Golden Jubilee Handbook 1924-1974.
Frampton Cotterell, priv. pub. (1974)

Water Supply

L. Richardson: Wells and Springs of Gloucestershire. (Water Supply Memoirs of Gt.Britain).
HMSO, 1936, pp.93-94. Reference to origins of West Gloucs. Water Company and a record of boring.

Water Works

Loxton Collection at Bristol Central Library.

Weather

'Gazette', December 1965. Severe flooding.