Littleton-upon-Severn
| Littleton-upon-Severn | |
| Gloucestershire | |
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | ST595899 |
| Location: | 51°36’28"N, 2°35’6"W |
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| Post town: | Bristol |
| Postcode: | BS35 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Gloucestershire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Northavon |
Littleton-upon-Severn is a village in Gloucestershire near the mouth of the River Severn. It is located to the west of Thornbury, within the Langley and Swinehead Hundred.
The parish church, St Mary's of Malmesbury is a Grade II* listed building.[1] It dates from the fourteenth century but was largely rebuilt in 1878. It is built out of rubble stone in the Decorated style, with a roof of fish-scale tiles. The plan consists of a nave, south porch and aisle, chancel, north vestry, and tower at the west end.
The village contains a popular 17th Century pub called The White Hart.[2]
History
A church was first mentioned as being in the village when the Abbott of Malmesbury held a Court Leet here each year under a licence from King Edward the Martyr (975-979), and in the Domesday Book, it was listed as being in the Langley hundred, and having a priest and thirty acres of pasture. In the twelfth century, the wooden church was replaced with a stone building, and the font and piscine are also twelfth century.[3][4]
In 1831 the parish had a population of 179 people.[5]
In 2015 it as reported that locals were distressed with the prospect of a developer wanting to built a refugee centre for some 1,000 migrants in the village.[6]
About the village
Littleton Brick Pits are an artificial lagoon, once the site of clay extraction for brick making, where the Avon Wildlife Trust have reintroduced reedbeds close to the Severn Estuary, as a feeding and resting place for migrating birds.[7]
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1312787: St Mary's of Malmesbury
- ↑ Aird, Alisdair; Stapley, Fiona (4 September 2014). The Good Pub Guide 2015. Ebury Publishing. p. 902. ISBN 978-1-4735-0186-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=7I3bAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT902.
- ↑ "St Mary of Malmesbury, Littleton-on-Severn". The Church of England. https://www.achurchnearyou.com/littleton-on-severn-st-mary-of-malmesbury/. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ↑ "The History of St Mary's, Littleton". Alveston.org. http://www.alveston.org/alveston/st-marys-littleton-history. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel (1833). A Topographical Dictionary of England: With Historical and Statistical Descriptions. S. Lewis and Company. p. 111. https://books.google.com/books?id=BfgRclqTeF0C&pg=PT111.
- ↑ "Villagers' fury over plans to build a refugee centre for 1,000 migrants in a community where only 100 people live". DailyMail. 27 November 2015. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3336743/Villagers-fury-plans-build-Gloucestershire-refugee-centre-1-000-migrants.html. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ↑ "Littleton Brick Pits". Reserves. Avon Wildlife Trust. http://www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/littleton.htm. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
