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Bedminster in Somerset County England History and GeographyBEDMINSTER, a parish in the hundred of HARTCLIFFE with BEDMINSTER, county of SOMERSET, 1½ mile (S. by W.) from Bristol, containing 7979 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with St. Thomas'' Redcliffe, and Abbot's Leigh annexed, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £10. 3. 4., and in the patronage of the Prebendary of Bedminster in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, displays various portions of ancient architecture, mixed with modern insertions: a spire on the tower was thrown down in 1563. A chapel of ease is now being erected, under the act passed in the 58th of George III., the first stone having been laid on the 8th of September, 1829. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Methodists: that belonging to the Independents is one of the most handsome and spacious buildings of the kind in the kingdom; the principal entrance is adorned with Grecian columns, and the exterior coated with freestone. Bedminster anciently consisted only of a few cottages, but from its proximity to Bristol, (being separated from it by the new cut, whereby the natural channel of the river Avon has been converted into a floating harbour for vessels frequenting the port,) and the main road to that city from the western counties passing through it, it has become a considerable suburb to Bristol, participating in its manufactures, trade, &c. Here are tan-yards and rope-walks; and in the environs are several gardens, with the produce of which, the occupiers supply the city of Bristol; but many of the inhabitants, the number of whom now exceeds 10,000, are employed in the collieries within the parish. About the close of the twelfth century, Robert de Berkeley founded an hospital, dedicated to St. Catherine, for a master and several poor brethren; it stood on the western side of a street near the extremity of Brightlow bridge, and was subsequently used as a glass house, but has since been converted into small tenements: another hospital was founded by a member of the same family, but every vestige of it has disappeared. A court baron for the prebend is held here. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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