Littleton-upon-Severn is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Aust, in the South Gloucestershire district, in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England, near the mouth of the River Severn and is located to the west of Thornbury. Historically it belonged to the Hundred of Langley and Swinehead. In 1931 the parish had a population of 179.[1] On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Aust.[2]
| Littleton-upon-Severn | |
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  Littleton-upon-Severn Location within Gloucestershire | |
| OS grid reference | ST595899 |
| Civil parish | |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Bristol |
| Postcode district | BS35 |
| Police | Avon and Somerset |
| Fire | Avon |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
A church was first mentioned as being in the village when the abbot 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]
The present parish church of St Mary's of Malmesbury is a Grade II* listed building, having been registered on 30 March 1960. 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.[5]
The village contains a popular 17th century pub called The White Hart.[6]
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]
References
edit- ^ "Population statistics Littleton upon Severn AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ "Relationships and changes Littleton upon Severn AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ "St Mary of Malmesbury, Littleton-on-Severn". The Church of England. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ "The History of St Mary's, Littleton". Alveston.org. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ "Church of St Mary of Malmesbury, Aust". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ Aird, Alisdair; Stapley, Fiona (4 September 2014). The Good Pub Guide 2015. Ebury Publishing. p. 902. ISBN 978-1-4735-0186-7.
- ^ "Littleton Brick Pits". Reserves. Avon Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 22 January 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
