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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described St George like this:
GEORGE (St.), a parish and a sub-district in Clifton district, Gloucester. The parish lies on the river Avon, near the West Midland and the Great Western railways, 2 miles E of Bristol; contains the hamlets of Easton, Two-Mill-Hill, and Whitehall; and has a post office under Bristol. Acres, 1,831. ...
Real property, £22, 419, of which £2, 210 are in mines, and £103 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 8, 905; in 1861, 10, 276. Houses, 2, 120. The property is much subdivided. A considerable extent of land is disposed in market-gardens. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £530.* Patron, the Rev. T. N. Grigg. The church consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with embattled tower. The vicarages of Lower Easton and Two-mile-Hill are separate benefices. There are five dissenting chapels, four public schools, a school-charity with £36, and other charities with £26. The sub-district is conterminate with the parish.
St George is now part of BRISTOL City. Click here for graphs and data of how BRISTOL has changed over two centuries. For statistics about St George itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of St George, in Bristol and Gloucestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1243
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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