A bibliography of Shirehampton

Willington

anonymous. homepage dated 22 January 2003
The Willingtons of Shirehampton: Willington/Wellington genealogy. http://www.dalmura.com.au/genealogy/Willington/ accessed 12 July 2018.

Thomas Alcock, 17thC historical character associated with the second Earl of Rochester, courtier and poet (Shirehampton)

Cooper, Susan Margaret. 2017
Thomas Alcock: a biographical account.
Privately published and obtainable from the author.

Irene Base, calligrapher (Shirehampton)

Niblett, Gordon. 1982
Obituary of Irene Base. Newsletter which was the forerunner of The Scribe 25.

See also Ethel Thomas, The continuing story of Shirehampton, 124‐126.

Roy Bentley, professional footballer (Shirehampton)

Bentley, Roy. 1955
Going for goal.
London, Museum Press. Autobiography.

Bentley, Roy and Jim Drury. 2005
Roy Wonder. Roy Bentley: Chelsea Champion.
Stroud, The History Press.

Frederick Bligh Bond, architect (with distinctive buildings in Shirehampton and Avonmouth including the Public Hall, The Wylands, The Miles Arms, and the former King’s Weston Estate Office in Shirehampton)

Coates, Richard. 2015
Frederick Bligh Bond (1864‐1945): a bibliography of his writings and a list of his buildings
Working paper. University of the West of England, http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/25679.

Hopkinson‐Ball, Tim. 2007
The rediscovery of Glastonbury: Frederick Bligh Bond, architect of the New Age.
Stroud, Sutton Publishing.
Biography; chapter 2 includes material about Bond’s time as architect to the King’s Weston estate.

Pollard, Kate. 2003
‘Bligh Bond, a ‘colourful’ Bristol architect’. Evening Post 2 December 2003.
Also http://www.shire.org.uk accessed 28 August 2018.

See also Thomas, The continuing story of Shirehampton, 124‐145.

Barbara Chick, nurse and Falklands War hero (Shirehampton)

Barbara Chick was honoured with a ceremony and plaque at Shirehampton Health Centre on 5 September 1984, according to the Falkland Islands Newsletter 21 (November 1984), 7:

In Memory of Nurse Barbara Chick, S.E.N.
A resident of Shirehampton, who
gave her life on 10th April 1984
trying to rescue patients
trapped by a fire at the
King Edward VII Memorial Hospital
Port Stanley
Falkland Islands

Barbara ignored orders to keep out of the burning hospital and stayed with her patients until she was overcome by smoke, according to the Associated Press. She is buried at Port Stanley. The plaque does not appear to be displayed at the present Health Centre in Pembroke Road.

Rotha Mary Clay, pioneer social worker, historian and art historian (Shirehampton)

Orme, Nicholas. 2001
A remarkable lady of Shirehampton. Shire 352, May, 12, http://www.shire.org.uk.

Orme, Nicholas. 2004
Clay, Rotha Mary (1878‐1961). Oxford dictionary of national biography.
Oxford, Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/61734
Requires subscriber login or similar.

Rachel Harvey, writer, aunt of Rev. A. J. Harvey, vicar (Shirehampton)

Harvey, Rev Afred J. 1905
Rachel Harvey.
No further details of this book have been discovered. Probably privately published, but not found in any copyright library.

Harvey, Rachel.
A book of her poetry, edited by her nephew.
No further details of this book have been discovered. Probably privately published, but not found in any copyright library.

Gilbert Jessop, cricketer (Shirehampton)

Brodribb, Gerald. 1974
The legend of Gilbert Jessop.
Cricinfo. http://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketer/content/story/134791.html.

Hal Jons (Harry Jones, Harry Graham), author (Shirehampton)

Coates, Richard. 2018
‘The Wild West of England’. Shire, 555, April, 3.
A prolific author of Westerns.

James Lewis, West Indies merchant and slave owner (resident of Shirehampton; monument in Westbury church)

Legacies of British Slave Ownership database, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ Search for James Lewis I.

Philip John Miles, West Indies merchant, slave owner and banker (Leigh Court and King’s Weston)

Farrell, Stephen and David R. Fisher. 2009
Miles, Philip John (1774‐1845). In David R. Fisher, ed., The history of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1820‐32. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Legacies of British Slave Ownership database, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ Search for Miles.

Morgan, Kenneth. 2016 Miles, Philip John (1774‐1845). Oxford dictionary of national biography.
Oxford, Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/107409
Requires subscriber login or similar.

Philip Napier Miles, composer and philanthropist (King’s Weston)

anonymous. 2007
Philip Napier Miles.
Wikipedia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Napier_Miles, which includes a list of some of his published music.

Colles, Henry C. 1936
Philip Napier Miles: composer. Music and Letters 17.4, 357‐367.

Miles’s personal and related papers and music (1884‐1951) can be found at University of Bristol Special Collections GB 3 DM 39, along with his conductor’s baton in the university’s Cabinet of Curiosities. There are occasional short references to his concerts in musical journals, not detailed here.

Archibald Sayce, linguistic scholar (Shirehampton)

anonymous. ? 2004
Archibald Sayce.
Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Sayce.

Gunn, Battiscombe revised by O. R. Gurney. 2004
Sayce, Archibald Henry (1845‐1933). Oxford dictionary of national biography.
Oxford, Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/35965
Requires subscriber login or similar.

Archives of Sayce’s papers can be traced through: http://www.pitts.emory.edu/Archives/text/mss264.html accessed 12 July 2018; formerly at http://www.ashmolean.museum/gri/4sayce.html, now no longer accessible.

See also Who Was Who in Egyptology. 3rd ed., 1995, 375.

Samuel Seyer, historian (resident of Bristol, buried at Shirehampton)

Bettey, Joseph H. 2008
Seyer, Samuel (1757‐1831). Oxford dictionary of national biography.
Oxford, Oxford University Press, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/25153
Requires subscriber login or similar.

Robert Stephens, actor (Shirehampton)

Stephens, Robert and Michael Coveney. 1995
Robert Stephens, knight errant: memoirs of a vagabond actor.
London, Hodder and Stoughton.
There is a blue plaque on his childhood home in Priory Road.

Ethel Thomas, local historian of Avonmouth and Shirehampton (Avonmouth)

Biographical notes: http://archives.bristol.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=2.

Monumental inscriptions (including war memorials)

ABHBA (1888‐90) Note 1618: Shirehampton church: memorial inscriptions
9 inscriptions within the church, taken in 1883.
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 4. 181‐182.

Bigland, Ralph (lived 1711‐84), ed. Brian Frith. 1989‐95
Historical, monumental and genealogical collections relative to the county of Gloucester.
4 vols. Stroud, Alan Sutton, for Gloucestershire Record Society.
Includes transcriptions of Shirehampton churchyard memorials, vol. IV, 1418 of Frith’s edition. The entry for the whole of Westbury parish is on 1405‐10, and includes memorials of relevance to Shirehampton in Westbury church.

Bristol & Avon Family History Society. 1980‐6
Transcription of inscriptions in Shirehampton cemetery,
https://www.bafhs.org.uk/local-burials/shirehampton accessed 29 October 2018.
The actual burial registers are held at Canford Cemetery Office, Westbury on Trym. For the churchyard, see Shirehampton Church‐Yard Book (1869, with new entries thereafter),
Bristol Archives,P.St MS/I/6/1..

Chubb, Bob. 2006
Imperial Smelting Corporation war memorial. Shire, November. http://www.shire.org.uk accessed 27 August 2018.

“A memorial commemorating the sacrifice of 22 employees of the Imperial Smelting Corporation was until recently located at the former smelter site which is now owned by Rhodia in Avonmouth. Last year 2005 it was noticed that this memorial was showing signs of wear and unfortunately the materials did not make it possible to relocate it. Rhodia commissioned a new memorial plaque which as a long term solution was erected in the Memorial Corner at St Andrews Church, Avonmouth. On 31st August 2006 this plaque was dedicated by the Archdeacon of Bristol, Ven. Tim McClure, in the presence of the Lord Mayor of Bristol and the Lady Mayoress.”

Coates, Richard. 2019
‘An epitaph in Dano‐Norwegian in Shirehampton chapel yard’. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 137, 254-257.

Shirehampton Local History Group. 2009
St Mary’s Shirehampton: memorial inscriptions and sketch plans
Based on an original index produced by Bristol and Avon Family History Society.

Viator. 1882‐4 DCCCXIX = note 819. Index to monumental inscriptions, Shirehampton. Some from church and churchyard, taken in 1883.
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 2. 392‐393.

Westlake, Ray. 2002a
Transcription of inscription on Avonmouth war memorial, St Andrew’s church 44 names.
With Pilning, http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/westlake/Westlake9.html accessed 27 August 2018.

Westlake, Ray. 2002b
Transcription of inscription on Shirehampton war memorial 58 names.
http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/westlake/Westlake18.html accessed 27August 2018.

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Historical photographs

Beeson, Anthony. 2013
Westbury‐on‐Trym to Avonmouth through time.
Stroud, Amberley Publishing.

Bliszko, Lucy. 2016
21 historic photos of Shirehampton.
Bristol 24/7, https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/historic-photos-of-shirehampton/ accessed 21 September 2020.

Fisher, Janet and Derek Fisher, compilers. 1994?
Shirehampton, Sea Mills: on old postcards.
Bristol, Bygone Bristol.

Hoey, David. undated
Old postcards of Shirehampton, http://www.shire.org.uk accessed 4 September 2018.

Morgan, John H. 1860‐4
Photography by John H. Morgan: A Frame containing Four Views of the Effects of the late Hurricane at Shirehampton; Shirehampton Park; At King’s Weston; exhibited 1860‐4 Reference http://peib.dmu.ac.uk/detailexhibition.php?exbtnid=1039&inum=379&listLength=595&orderBy=photographernorm accessed 27 August 2018.

Winstone, Reece. 1977
Bristol’s suburbs in the 1920’s & 1930’s: the photographs taken and collected by, and the book written …. by Reece Winstone.
Privately published.

Winstone, Reece. 1985
Bristol’s suburbs long ago.
Privately published – and to be found scattered in many of the other pictorial books by the same photographer.

General geology and Palaeolithic archaeology of the area

ApSimon, A. M. and George C. Boon. 1960
An exposure of the Bristol Avon gravels at Shirehampton, near Bristol, June 1959. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 9.1. 22‐29.

Bates, Martin R. 2003
A brief review of deposits containing palaeolithic artefacts in the Shirehampton area of Bristol and their regional context. Llwynfedwen, Libanus, Brecon, Report for the Avon Archaeological Unit on behalf of Linden Homes Western Ltd.

Bates, Martin R. and F. F. Wenban‐Smith. 2005
Palaeolithic research framework for the Bristol Avon basin. Report commissioned by Bristol City Council, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.673.1964&rep=rep1&type=pdf accessed 26 August 2018.
There are other references relevant to the area in this web‐document.

Clevedon Brown, J. 1957
Archaeological notes: Palaeolithic and other implements from the Shirehampton district. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 8.1. 43‐44.

GeoQuest Associates. 1999
Archaeomagnetic study of a sediment sequence at Kite’s Corner, Cabot Park, Avonmouth. Report for Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust Ltd.

Lacaille, A. D. 1954
Palaeoliths from the lower reaches of the Bristol Avon. The Antiquaries Journal 34. 1‐27.

Locock, M, S. Robinson and A. Yates. 1998a
Cabot Park phase 2: Poplar, Packgate and Moorend, Avonmouth, Bristol. Archaeological Evaluation. Report for Burford Group PLC. Report 98/047.

Locock, M, S. Robinson and A. Yates. 1998b
Late Bronze Age sites at Cabot Park, Avonmouth. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 9. 31‐36.

McConnell, Richard. 2003
Bristol Waste Water Treatment Works, Avonmouth, Bristol: an archaeological watching brief.
East Stour, Dorset, Context One Archaeological Services. Report for Wessex Water plc.
Formerly http://www.contextone.co.uk/online_reports/downloads/WBF_WWB_report.pdf accessed 20 February 2007.

This may be related to:

Tabor, R. 2013
D9348: Bristol Sewage Treatment Works, King’s Weston Lane, Avonmouth, Bristol: an archaeological watching brief. Context One Archaeological Services, http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-887-1/dissemination/pdf/contexto1-134322_1.pdf accessed 18 September 2018.

Norcott, D. 2013
Bristol Waste Water Treatment Works, Avonmouth ‐ Stage 2: Geoarchaeological description and interpretation. Salisbury, Wessex Archaeology.
Stage 3, Palaeoenvironmental assessment report, http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1154679&recordType=GreyLitSeries accessed 18 September 2018.

Roe, Derek. 1974
Palaeolithic artefacts from the River Avon terraces near Bristol. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 13.3. 319‐326.
Includes finds from the Ham Green ‐ Shirehampton area.

Skempton, Alec, S. W. Smotrych, F. A. Hibbert & J. R. Haynes. undated
Holocene stratigraphy and sea‐level changes near Avonmouth, Gloucestershire. Typescript in Alec Skempton’s papers; see Anne Barrett and Kate Thompson (2005). Skempton Papers Guide to Records.
Imperial College http://www.cv.ic.ac.uk/SkemArchive/HDMS/Civils/Skempton/Web/skempton.htm accessed 10 July 2018.
Imperial College, London, archive identifier: SKEM00577; box number 66, series 19.

Sites in Avonmouth

Everton, A. and R. Everton. 1981
Romano‐British occupation at Crook’s Marsh Farm, Avonmouth. Bristol Archaeological Research Group 2. 57‐58.

Locock, Martin and Martin Lawler. 2000
Moated enclosures on the North Avon Level: survey and excavation at Rockingham Farm, Avonmouth, 1993‐7. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 118. 93‐122.

Masser, Paul, Julie Jones and Bridget McGill. 2005
Romano‐British settlement and land use on the Avonmouth Levels: the evidence of the Pucklechurch to Seabank pipeline project. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 123. 55‐86.

Sites at King’s Weston Roman villa and adjacent

Boon, George C. 1950
The Roman villa in King’s Weston Park (Lawrence Weston Estate, Gloucestershire). Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 69, 5‐58.
Includes specialist reports by D. B. Harden (glass), Stanley Smith (building stones), D. T. Donovan (soil samples), M. A. C. Hinton and D. P. Dobson‐Hinton (bones).

Boon, George C. 1967a
A penannular brooch from King’s Weston Roman Villa. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 86. 195‐196.

Boon, George C. 1967b
King’s Weston Roman Villa (official guide).
Bristol, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.
Earlier edition: The Roman buildings, King’s Weston Park, Bristol. 1949.

Boon, George C. 1993
Kingsweston Villa revisited: the East Wing murder and other burials. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 111. 77‐83.

Burchill, R. 1995
Survey and archaeological excavation of King’s Weston Roman villa, Lawrence Weston, Bristol.
Bristol, Bristol and Region Archaeological Services.

Clevedon Brown, J. 1958
The Roman settlement at Lawrence Weston: the alleged road and the 1850 pavement. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 8.2. 119‐123.

Godman, C. 1972
King’s Weston Hill, Bristol…. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 13. 41‐48.

Parker, A. J. 1984
A Roman settlement at Lawrence Weston. Bristol and Avon Archaeology 3, 27‐35.
A preliminary report. Location: Bristol City Museum, accession number 32/1982.

Wessex Archaeology (2006) Katherine Farm, Avonmouth, Bristol: archaeological desk-based assessment. Salisbury: Wessex Arcaeology, online at http://www.kwag.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Katherine-Farm-Avonmouth-Desk-based-Assesment.pdf accessed 17 December 2020.

Rahtz, Philip A. and J. Clevedon Brown. 1959
Blaise Castle Hill, Bristol, 1957. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 8.3. 147‐171.

Williams, Bruce. 1988
Recent archaeological work at Kingsweston House, Bristol (illustrated). Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 107. 228‐232.

For resistivity and ground-penetrating radar surveys of the grounds of King’s Weston House, see https://www.kwag.org.uk/downloads/published-resources/.

Sites in Sea Mills

Bennett, Julian. 1985
Sea Mills: the Roman town of Abonae. Excavations at Nazareth House 1972.
Bristol, City of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery monograph 3.

Boon, George C. with notes by J. Baxter, A. Mitchinson and G.R. Stanton. 1945
The Roman site at Sea Mills, 1945‐46. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 66. 258‐295.

Boon, George C. 1949
A Claudian origin for Sea Mills. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 68. 184‐188.

Constant, Jim. 1979
Sea Mills. Bristol and Avon Archaeological Research Group newsletter? 6.7 April, 000‐000
No copy located.

Dobson, Dina P. 1937
Excavations, Sea Mills, near Bristol. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 59. 330‐332.

Dobson, D. P. and F. Walker with list of pottery by J. S. Kirkman. 1939
Excavations at Sea Mills, near Bristol, 1938. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 61. 202‐223.

Dobson, D. P. 1942
Sea Mills. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 63. 250‐251.

Ellis, P. J. 1987
Sea Mills, Bristol: the 1965‐1968 excavations in the Roman town of Abonae. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 105. 15‐108.

Etheridge, David. 2005
No. 75 Sea Mills Lane, Sea Mills Bristol: archaeological desk based assessment on behalf of Mrs. D. Britton.
Bristol, Avon Archaeological Unit.

Higgins, David H. See below under Russell.

Martin, A. T. with a report by E. K. Tratman. 1923
Excavations at Sea Mills. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 45. 193‐201.

Nightingale, K. R. 1954
Trial excavations at Sea Mills, 1954. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 73. 70‐72.

Reece, Richard. 1966
Roman coins from Sea Mills. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 85. 218‐220.

Russell, James. 2008
Sea Mills dock, Bristol. Journal of the Council for British Archaeology South‐West 21, 26‐46.
There is a sound recording with this title in Bristol Central Library, Reference Section. The article provoked further thoughts as follows:

• Higgins, David H. 2008
  Aspects of the vocabulary and history of hydraulics in the south‐west: the Roman clyse of the Somerset Levels and the possibility of a Roman tidal lock at Abona, Sea Mills, Bristol.
  Journal of the Council for British Archaeology South‐West 22,
  previously available http://www.britarch.ac.uk/cbasw/ and http://www.romaneranames.uk/essays/higgins.pdf accessed 14 September 2018.
• Russell, James. 2008
  Sea Mills dock, Bristol ‐ a postscript. Journal of the Council for British Archaeology South West 22. 36‐37.

Scarth, Rev. H. M. 1873
On an inscribed stone found at Sea Mills in 1873, on the east side of the River Avon, two miles below Bristol.
Pamphlet, available in Bristol Archives at Pamphet/5.

Note the recent and current work of the Sea Mills Archaeological Research Team (SMART) on the Roman town, currently in suspense whilst a Scheduled Ancient Monument application is underway.

Sites in Shirehampton

Burchill, Rod. 1996
Archaeological watching brief at Portway Upper School, Penpole Lane, Shirehampton, Bristol.
Bristol, Bristol and Region Archaeological Services.
There are other local watching brief reports in this series whose details were accessible through http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/.

Glass, Emily. 2009
Archaeological watching brief of land at no. 38 Walton Road, Shirehampton, Bristol, for Mr Philip Pinnell.
Bristol, Bristol and Region Archaeological Services.
Report no. 2060/2009 (Bristol Historic Environment Record no. 24645).

Archaeological reports covering sites within Bristol can now be found annually in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, http://www.bgas.org.uk/publications/transactions.html.

Anglo‐Saxon documents

Offa, King of Mercia (793 x 796) Land‐grants relating to Stoke, in Westbury‐on‐Trym. Nos 139 and 146 in Peter Sawyer, ed. (1968) Anglo‐Saxon charters.
London, Royal Historical Society.
Available in The electronic Sawyer, http://www.esawyer.org.uk/charter/139.html and
http://www.esawyer.org.uk/charter/146.html, an online version of the revised edition of
Anglo‐Saxon charters, section one, prepared under the auspices of the British Academy / Royal Historical Society Joint Committee on Anglo‐Saxon Charters by Susan E. Kelly and adapted for the Web by S. M. Miller.

Extracts from The electronic Sawyer giving further bibliographical references, etc. (explained fully on the web‐site mentioned), can be seen below.

The importance of these documents is that they refer to Stoke, which includes two pieces of land identifiable as the later tithings of Stoke Bishop and Shirehampton.

Their boundaries are given in Old English in the documents, and they are discussed in all the following works:

Everett, S. 1961
A reinterpretation of the Anglo‐Saxon survey of Stoke Bishop. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 80. 175‐178.

Grundy, G. B. 1935‐6
Charters and field names of Gloucestershire.
Bristol, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society.

Higgins, David H. 2002
The Anglo‐Saxon charters of Stoke Bishop: a study of the boundaries of Bisceopes stoc. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 120. 107‐131.

Higgins, David H. 2004
The Roman town of Abona and the Anglo‐Saxon charters of Stoke Bishop of AD 969 and 984. Bristol and Avon Archaeology 19. 75‐86.

Higgins, David H. undated
Abona (Sea Mills) and Abona (Leigh Court): the evidence of Anglo‐Saxon charters and aerial photography. Sound recording.
Available through Libraries West, see https://www.librarieswest.org.uk/client/en_GB/default accessed 17 September 2018.

Lindley, E. S. 1959
The Anglo‐Saxon charters of Stoke Bishop. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 77. 96‐109.

Moore, John S. 1987
The Gloucestershire section of Domesday Book: geographical problems of the text, part 1. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 105, 109‐32 esp. 119‐120 dealing with former opinions on whether Chire in Domesday book is Shirehampton ‐ it is not ‐ and crediting A. S. Ellis with the correct solution.

Taylor, Charles S. 1900
The church and monastery of Westbury‐on‐Trym. Proceedings of the Clifton Antiquarian Club 4, 20‐.
Includes material on the Shirehampton charters.

Taylor, Charles S. 1910
The parochial boundaries of Bristol. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 33, 126‐139 esp. 126‐130.

Taylor, Charles S. 1913
Note on the entry in Domesday Book relating to Westbury on Severn. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 36, 182‐190.
Clarifies the fact that Chire in Domesday Book does not refer to Shirehampton, as Sir Robert Atkyns (1712) had supposed.

Parish registers, inclosure awards, tithe awards, ancient documents in archives, etc.

published and unpublished, covering at least part of the area

Place‐names

Coates, Richard. 2008a
Correction to The place‐names of Gloucestershire. Journal of the English Place‐Name Society, 40. 129‐130.
About the entry for Shirehampton in that book, wrongly assigned to Henbury parish.

Coates, Richard. 2008b
The name of Shirehampton.
On the Shire web‐site, http://www.shire.org.uk/
Also short articles on individual local names in Shire from February 2008 onwards, and also later http://www.shire.org.uk/.

Coates, Richard. 2011
The street‐names of Shirehampton and Avonmouth.
On the Shire web‐site, http://www.shire.org.uk/.

Coates, Richard. 2012
The farm‐ and field‐names of old Shirehampton.
On the Shire web‐site, http://www.shire.org.uk/.

Coates, Richard. 2015
House‐names.
On the Shire web‐site, http://www.shire.org.uk/.

Coates, Richard. 2016
A lost place‐name: Godringhill in Henbury. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 134. 251‐255.
The place was probably in Lawrence Weston.

Coates, Richard.
2015; appeared 2018
Naming Shirehampton and the name Shirehampton. Onoma: journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences 50, 5‐43, online also at https://onomajournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Onoma-50-01.-Coates-final-25.08.2019.pdf.

Coates, Richard. 2019
Places, names and history in north‐west Bristol.
Bristol, Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England.
Contains revised and fully updated versions of the 2011, 2012 and 2015 items above, plus the essay ‘The farms of the King’s Weston estate’, the earliest version of which (2018) is available on the web‐site of the King’s Weston Action Group.

Harris, H. C. W. 1969
Housing nomenclature in Bristol.
Bristol, Bristol City Council.
Harris’s preparatory notebook is available in Bristol Archives, record no. 40702.

Harris, H. C. W. 1971
Origin of district and street names in Bristol Typescript, Bristol Central Reference Library and Bristol Record Office.

Macey, Mary. 2009
Local people in street names. Shire, April 2009, now http://www.shire.org.uk.

Smith, A. Hugh. 1964
The place‐names of Gloucestershire, part 3.
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. (Survey of English Place‐Names 40).
The standard reference work for this area.

Smith, Veronica. 2001
The street names of Bristol: their origins and meanings.
Bristol, Broadcast Books.
Second edition 2002. Very unreliable on older names.

Wilkins, H. J. 1920
Perambulation of the boundaries of the ancient parish of Westbury‐on‐Trym in May, 1803 A.D. With notes; also an enquiry concerning two Bristol place names ‐ Whiteladies Road and Durdham Down.
Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith With folding map. 24.

Surname Shirehampton

Coates, Richard. 2017
The 99‐year surname and God, by proxy. Journal of the Guild of One‐Name Studies. 12.12. October‐December. 11‐12.

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Avonmouth

St Andrew’s (C. of E.)

anonymous. ?1993
The parish church of St Andrew Avonmouth in the Diocese of Bristol (1893‐1993) ‐ a short guide and history.
Copy in Bristol Archives, 45547/5.

St Brendan’s (Roman Catholic)

Anglin, Val. 2004
Parishioners say farewell in Avonmouth. Clifton Catholic News, March
Contains a brief history of St Brendan’s, Avonmouth.

Bryant, John. 2009
Archaeological building survey of St Brendan’s church, St Andrews Road, Avonmouth, Bristol, for Ferris Homes.
Bristol: Bristol and Region Archaeological Service Report no. 2187/2009. Bristol Historic Environment Record no. 24811. Online at https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-918-1/dissemination/pdf/bristola1-64017_1.pdf accessed 22 September 2020.

Other churches in Avonmouth: Congregational; Methodist; Evangelical.

No separate written accounts have been found of any of them so far.

King’s Weston and Lawrence Weston

anonymous. 1950
Church House is in Chapel Lane: mystery of history at Lawrence Weston. Western Daily Press, 16 June. See report of this article in Helme 2003 30.

archidave.2007
Christ the King church, Lawrence Weston, Bristol.
Contains reminiscences and technical description.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/archidave/414463026
This was the precursor of the present St Peter’s church.

Thompson, A. Hamilton. 1915
Notes on the ecclesiastical history of the parish of Henbury. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 38. 99‐186.
Includes Lawrence Weston and King’s Weston.

Churches in Lawrence Weston

Other churches in Lawrence Weston:
Methodist; Church of Christ the King with St Peter (1950; from 1961 St Peter; The Jelly Mould);
Our Lady of the Rosary (Roman Catholic); Baptist; Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses; Bethesda Chapel (now Lawrence Weston Christian Fellowship (Pentecostal)); note also Friends’ Quakers’ Burial Ground.
No separate written accounts have been found of any of them so far.

Sea Mills

St Edyth’s (Church of England)

anonymous. 1978
Inside story 1928‐1978.
Bristol, St Edyth’s.
Copy in Bristol Central Lending Library.

Methodist

anonymous. 1981
Sea Mills Methodist Church 1931‐1981: 50 years a community church in Sea Mills.
Copy in Bristol Central Lending Library.

Highgrove (Woodlands Group of Churches)

[A brief section in] Our story so far, https://www.thecommunitychurch.net/the-story-so-far accessed 8 October 2018.

Shirehampton

King’s Weston

King’s Weston house and estate

A lot of publications deal with King’s Weston House, too many to list here. But there is now a vast amount of historical and descriptive material on the King’s Weston Action Group web‐site, www.kwag.org.uk. The material is partly analysed in this bibliography, but interested readers should simply browse the web‐site as a first resort, using the History, the Gallery/Historic images, the Downloads/History exhibition panels and the Downloads/History resources menus on the home page. There are also some paper guides in existence uploaded to the web‐site or reprinted from material there.

anonymous. 2007
King’s Weston, Bristol, England.
Record ID: 1953, http://www.parksandgardens.org/places‐and‐people/site/1953 accessed 10 September 2018.

Coates, Richard (2018) The King’s Weston estate farms. Online at http://www.kwag.org.uk/wp‐content/uploads/2018/06/KWFindependent.pdf.
Also now in Coates, 2019. Places, names and history in north‐west Bristol.

Gomme, Andor, Michael Jenner and Bryan Little. 1979
Bristol: an architectural history.
London, Lund Humphries, in association with Bristol & West Building Society. 108‐113.

Historic England. undated
Listing statement for King’s Weston House, https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the‐list/list‐entry/1000335; also http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=379894 and the next 3 articles there on adjacent buildings, all accessed 9 September 2018.

King’s Weston Action Group. 2016
King’s Weston park and house: a guide.
Bristol, King’s Weston Action Group.

Martyn, David. 2014
King’s Weston: new insights on old views. Avon Gardens Trust Journal, 3‐11, http://www.kwag.org.uk/wp‐content/uploads/2014/02/Avon‐Gardens‐Trust‐Journal‐2014‐small.pdf accessed 17 December 2020.

Martyn, David. 2014
New discoveries at King’s Weston, ?Bulletin, 16‐17,http://www.kwag.org.uk/wp‐content/uploads/2014/02/2014summerbulletin.pdf accessed 17 December 2020.

Musson, Jeremy. 2008.
Vanbrugh’s least‐known masterpiece. Country Life, 26 November 2008, http://www.kwag.org.uk/wp‐content/uploads/2014/02/Kingsweston‐26‐11‐2008b.pdf accessed 17 December 2020.

Phillips: Niall Phillips Associates. 1985
Kingsweston garden buildings: a conservation study.
[unknown place] Niall Phillips Associates.

Pritchard, J. E., & Co. 1937
Catalogue for the sale of antique and modern furniture at Kingsweston House, Shirehampton, Bristol.
Available at Bristol Archives, Pamphlet/848.

Russell, James. 2004.
The lodge and compass on Penpole Hill, Avon Gardens Trust Journal, 16‐26, http://www.kwag.org.uk/wp‐content/uploads/2014/02/Avon‐Gardens‐Trust‐Journal.‐Gt‐Court‐Penpole‐Russel‐J.pdf accessed 17 December 2020.

Russell, James. 2014
The ‘Great Court’ at King’s Weston, Avon Gardens Trust Journal, 29‐37, http://www.kwag.org.uk/wp‐content/uploads/2014/02/Avon‐Gardens‐Trust‐Journal.‐GtCourt‐Penpole‐Russel.J.pdf accessed 17 December 2020.

Sea Mills

The main material on Sea Mills is hard to find, but copies can be found in Bristol Central Library, reference section, except where noted.

General

Berridge, Antony Keyworth. 2009
Old Sea Mills 1940/50.
Bristol (Auto‐)biographical pamphlet. Available in Bristol Central Lending Library.

Harbour, 18th‐century, and the river Trym

Harris, Peter. 1985
A short account of Sea Mills harbour, Bristol.
Bristol, the author.
Available in Bristol Central lending Library.

Harris, Peter. 1995
The Lower Trym valley: an outline history of the river Trym and the valley from the junction of the Hen and the Trym to the harbour at Sea Mills.
Bristol, the author
Available in Bristol Central lending Library.

For the Roman harbour, see above under Archaeological excavation reports: Sea Mills.

Historic garden

Russell, James. undated
Mixing business with pleasure. An 18th‐century garden layout at Sea Mills.
Bristol, Untraced

Public housing and conservation area

Bristol City Council. 2011
Conservation Area 21, Sea Mills: character appraisal and management proposals. https://www.bristol.gov.uk/documents/20182/33832/sea-mills-character-appraisal.pdf/0278d384-f6b8-4dc2-b4e0-e5048c5731f3 accessed frequently.

Jevons, Rosamund and John Madge. 1946
Housing estates: a study of Bristol Corporation policy and practice between the wars.
Bristol, University of Bristol.

Miller, Mervyn. 2007
Sea Mills garden suburb in context
Untraced.

Roberts, John for Save Sea Mills Garden Suburb. 2007.
The definition and characteristics of a post‐WW1 garden suburb, with particular reference to Sea Mills garden suburb.
Bristol, Save Sea Mills Garden Suburb.

Wallis, Tim R. 2004
Sea Mills and the battle of the styles: stylistic variety in the architecture of an inter‐war garden suburb and its origins in Victorian revivalism.
Unpublished and untraced.

Wallis, Tim R. 2006
Conserving Sea Mills garden suburb. Sea Mills and Coombe Dingle Community Project.
Unpublished and untraced.

For Roman buildings: see Archaeological reports, above.

Shirehampton

General

Helme, Judy. 2012‐17
Historical notes accompanying drawings, mainly of local buildings, made in the 1980s by Betty Marten, featured in Shire newspaper e.g. 2012‐13, 2016‐17.

The Tithe Barn

Hack, Ralph A. 2012
History of the Tithe Barn and tithing. Shire, July. http://www.shire.org.uk accessed 22 November 2018.

Malletts Court

Cooper, Susan Margaret. 2017
Thomas Alcock: a biographical account.
Privately published.
Part 5 is about Malletts Court, assumed to be the Elizabethan House, High Street, but Malletts Court is more likely to be The Priory in what is now Priory Gardens.

The George Inn

Hack, Ralph A. 1999, 2000
History of the George Inn 2 parts. Shire, December and February respectively, http://www.shire.org.uk.

Lamplighter’s Hall now The Lamplighters pub.

anonymous ?Paul Townsend. apparently 1982, but site dated 2001
The Lamplighters. Formerly http://weldgen.tripod.com/bristolinns/id16.html (ultimate source not known; accessed 06 February 2007 with the text taken mainly from Thomas (2002). See now
https://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/2056127357 and
https://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/2097914950 accessed 18 September 2018.

The Powder House

Coates, Richard. 2016
The Shirehampton Powder House: exploding some myths. The Regional Historian: journal of The Regional History Centre, UWE Bristol 30, 10‐15. See also journal archives regionalhistorianuwe.org Subscription/affiliated access required.

Penlea

Hack, Ralph A. 1980
Penlea: a little history of an old house. Shire, January.

Public Hall, Shirehampton

Hack, Ralph A. 1998
The building of Shirehampton Public Hall. Shire, April.
This material, relevant to the book in the following entry, appears http://www.shirepubhall.org.uk/ accessed 18 September 2018.

Helme, Judy. 2005
Shirehampton Public Hall, 1904‐2004: serving the community for one hundred years.
Bristol, Shirehampton Public Hall Community Association.

Pollard, Kate. 2003
Bligh Bond, a ‘colourful’ Bristol architect. Evening Post, 02/12/2003.
Also http://www.shire.org.uk accessed 18 September 2018.
Architect of the Public Hall and other buildings in Shirehampton.

Smith, Gillian. 2010
Historic building investigation and recording on Shirehampton Public Hall and Library.
MA thesis, University of Bristol
Available through the city libraries.

Shirehampton Remount Camp (World War I)

This covered a wide area between Penpole Ridge and the railway line.

Davies, Michael. 2007
The Remount Section ‐ a further footnote. Shire, January.
The history of this camp involves Percy Toplis, whose story is told in William Allison and John Fairley
1978 The monocled mutineer. London, Quartet.

Hack, Ralph A. 2006
The Great War, Remount Camp, 1914‐1918. Shire, November.
http://www.shire.org.uk (scroll down)
Other notes on the subject follow this item in subsequent issues of Shire.

Penpole Camp

Byrne, Eugene. 2011
Stolen Paradise: civilian squatters in military camps in and around postwar Bristol. The Regional Historian: journal of The Regional History Centre, UWE Bristol 23. 31‐36.
Including extracts from an interview with Tom Kirk. Includes the WW2‐era Penpole Camp. See also journal archives regionalhistorianuwe.org Subscription/affiliated access required.

Council and other public housing

Butcher, E. E, ed. 1932
Bristol Corporation of the Poor, 1696‐1834.
Bristol, Bristol Record Society, publication 3.
Of interest because the almshouse St Peter’s Hospital, formerly in the centre of Bristol, held land in Shirehampton in the 18th century, and its boundary stone can still be seen in Crabtree Slip Wood when the brambles have been cleared.

Clarke, Albert H., S.J.Tucker, C. Bryant and Son Ltd (formerly John Knox – Bristol – Ltd), L. W. Francis and William Cowlin and Son Ltd. 1963
Flats and old people’s dwellings at Shirehampton, Bristol. Official Architecture and Planning, vol. 26, no. 10. October, 978-982.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/44151287 accessed 21 December 2020.
Deals with the buildings at The Ridge.

Hunt, Stephen J. 2009
Yesterday’s tomorrow: Bristol’s Garden Suburbs.
Bristol, Bristol Radical History Group, pamphlet 8.
Contains material on Shirehampton housing before 1914.

Malpass, Peter and Jennie Walmsley. 2005
100 years of council housing in Bristol.
Bristol, University of the West of England, Faculty of the Built Environment Technical Report.

Skilleter, Keith J. about 2000
Bristol’s garden suburbs: a history of housing reform, town planning and the Corporation’s ‘cottage estates’ 1890‐1939, 2 volumes.
Unpublished; available at Bristol Archive 45752/1. Covers Shirehampton and Sea Mills.

Sturge, Elizabeth and Frederick A. S. Goodbody. 1909
A garden suburb for Bristol.
Letchworth, Letchworth Garden City Press.
Promotional pamphlet for proposed development in Shirehampton.

Bewys Cross and the Anthony Post

Bewys Cross. 2007. Wikipedia.

Coates, Richard. 2014
Two Bristol crosses: Bewell’s Cross, St Michael on the Mount Without parish, and Bewys Cross, Kingsweston. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 132. 217‐228.

Hanks, Nick. 2007
Bewys Cross, the Bevis Stone and Sir Bevis of Hampton: an exploration of possible connections. Bristol and Avon Archaeology 21. 87‐90.

Hunt, J. M. 1990
Notes on the old stone crosses of the county of Avon. Avon Past 15. 21‐30
Bewys Cross is described on pp. 24‐26 and pictured on the front cover.

Wood, James G. 1903, published 1905
The ‘Anthony Post’ at Avonmouth. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club Herefordshire, 196‐197.

Holy wells

Braidwood, P. Murray. 1894
The holy well at Shirehampton. British Medical Journal. 2.1751. 21 July 1894, 159; followed up by Holtom, Charles. British Medical Journal. 2.1752. 28 July 1894, 229.

Other places

Belding, Mrs M. P. 1976
Letter about wells in Shirehampton. Shire, November, 6.

Coleman, Ruth for SCAF and Shire Greens no date, (after 2012).
Welcome to Lamplighter’s Marsh, leaflet.

Mustard gas factory and His Majesty’s Filling Station no. 23

Beddow, Neil. 2014
Gas girls.
Bristol, ’acta.
About conditions in local WW1 factories. See also https://www.acta-bristol.com/gas-girls-2/ accessed 30 October 2018.

Imperial Chemical Industries (Avlon Works), and its successors including AstraZeneca (1960‐?2008)

Davidson, J.1964
The initial development of ICI Severnside Works. Chemistry and Industry, 28 November. 1968‐1977.

Imperial Smelting Corporation, its predecessors and successors (1920‐2003)

Bingham, Roger. 2012
The rise and fall of ACS Chemicals at Avonmouth: the impact of the Montreal Protocol on CFCs. The Regional Historian 25 (summer). 32‐37.
Includes a potted business history of Imperial Smelting Corporation, its predecessors and successors. See also journal archives regionalhistorianuwe.org Subscription/affiliated access required.

Green, John. 2009
Bristol and the zinc industry. Newsletter of the Retired Professional Engineers Club, Bristol (March), http://www.rpec.co.uk/news12.html accessed July 2009.

Harvey, Charles E. and Jon Press. 1988
Downstream innovation ‐ chemical and zinc production at Avonmouth. Section 13 of the chapter Industrial change and the economic life of Bristol since 1800. In C. E. Harvey and J. Press, eds., Studies in the business history of Bristol.
Bristol: Bristol Academic Press. 1‐32. Reproduced on Peter Wardley, ed. 1997. Bristol historical resource. CD. Bristol, University of the West of England. http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/bhr/Main/industry/13_industry.htm accessed 11 July 2018.

Millers

Bettany, Kevin. 2018
Avonmouth Docks and BOCM Silcocks ‐ a memory of Avonmouth. https://www.francisfrith.com/uk/avonmouth/avonmouth-docks-and-bocm-silcocks_268280211 accessed 11 December 2018.

BOCM.
The British Oil and Cake Mills Ltd, Bristol ‐ a souvenir of your visit to Avonmouth mill.
Available in Bristol Archives, Pamphlet/787.

Seffy. 2015
Report ‐ Derelict Avonmouth (The Three Giants). Bristol ‐ 2014/15 https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/derelict-avonmouth-the-three-giants-bristol-2014-15.96614/ accessed 11 December 2018.

Local nature reserves

Bristol City Council. 2005
Lawrence Weston Moor leaflet. See also the online description at https://www.bristol.gov.uk/museums-parks-sports-culture/lawrence-weston-moor accessed 27 August 2018.

Shirehampton Community Action Forum. undated
Welcome to Lamplighter’s Marsh. Leaflet with online version at http://www.riveravontrail.org.uk/archive/lamplighter%27s_marsh_a3_leaflet.pdf accessed 18 September 2018
Partially upside down on the web‐page!

Forest of Avon. 2007
Sea Mills circular walk: a scenic four mile route around Sea Mills, Blaise and Coombe Dingle, Bristol.
Bristol, Forest of Avon.

Botany: the rare plants of the Shirehampton area

Lovatt, Clive.
There are 40 short articles by Clive Lovatt on the botany of the Shirehampton area in Shire from 2014 to 2018, www.shire.org.uk, reference section, which can be found by searching on the author’s surname.
They are especially interesting on rare plants.

Pring, Margaret E. 1961
Arabis stricta Huds. Journal of Ecology 49.2. 431‐437

Some rare whitebeams, Sorbus domestica True Service Tree, Sorbus anglica and Sorbus eminens (an unusually round‐leaved variety) are found locally, and are referred to in Wikipedia for Shirehampton and Horseshoe Bend.

Page, R. J. C., J. Ross and D. H. Bennet. 1992
A study of the home ranges, movements and behaviour of the feral cat population at Avonmouth Docks. Wildlife Research. 19.3. 263‐277.
Also reported in 1993, Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics). 12.1. 23‐26.
This will be hard to find, so the authors’ abstract is reproduced here:

[Abstract] The feral cat population at a 178‐hectare dockland site was studied for 18 months by direct observation assisted by radio‐tracking. Although food appeared to be abundant and widely distributed, the population density was low (10‐15 adults km‐2). There were few females in the population (7 of 22 cats of known sex) and little breeding success: only one weaned litter was seen during the entire study. Home range sizes were similar for males and females, and were much smaller (15 +/‐ 17 ha and 10+/‐7 ha, respectively) than would be expected from the low density. The cats were mostly solitary rather than group‐living, with little contact or social interaction. The implications of the findings for feral cat control are discussed, with particular emphasis on emergency measures for rabies outbreaks.

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