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Brislington in Somerset County England History and GeographyBRISLINGTON, a parish in the hundred of KEYNSHAM, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (S.E. by E.) from Bristol, containing 1216 inhabitants. The living is a donative, in the patronage of Lieutenant-General Popham. The church, dedicated to St. Luke, has recently been enlarged by the addition of two hundred and sixty-five sittings, one hundred and forty of which are free, and toward defraying the expense, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels granted £200. The river Avon forms the north-eastern boundary of this parish. Brislington House is an asylum for lunatics, lately erected by Edward Long Fox, M. D., who first introduced the classification of patients in such establishments: the buildings are of brick, with stone copings, and comprise a spacious central edifice, with detached wings, extending in front four hundred and ninety-five feet, and having a neatly disposed shrubbery: they are perfectly fire-proof, all the parts usually constructed of wood in other buildings, being in this, with the exception of a few doors and windows in the central house, made of iron, or some other incombustible material. Attached to the establishment, are warm and other baths, a bowling-green, fives-court, and similar sources of innocent recreation; and upon the estate are other houses, remote from the principal edifice, where patients may be accommodated with servants, and keep whatever establishment their friends choose. A variety of Roman coins was found in a field adjoining this asylum, in 1829. A chapel, dedicated to St. Anne, was founded by one of the lords de la Warre, on a sequestered spot in the northern part of the manor, but there are not now any vestiges of it. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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