FRENCHAY, a tything and a chapelry in Winterbourne parish, Gloucester. The tything lies on an affluent of the river Avon, 2 miles NNW of Mangotsfield r. station, and 4 NE of Bristol; is a conjoint tything with Hambrook; and has a post office under Bristol. Pop., 1, 621. Houses, 358. The chapelry was constituted in 1836; and is less extensive than the tything. Pop., 1, 531. Houses, 337. The property is divided among a few. Frenchay House is a chief residence. A thin vein of coal occurs here in a solid rock. The living is a rectory in the diocese of G. and Bristol. Value, £. 500. Patron, St. John's College, Oxford. The church is good.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))