Olveston

This article is about the English village and parish. For other uses, see Olveston (disambiguation).

The Mediaeval Gateway of Olveston Court by Samuel Loxton, c. 1890
The gateway and moat may be compared to that at Markenfield Hall
(Bristol Reference Library)

Olveston is a small village and larger parish in South Gloucestershire, England. The parish comprises the villages of Olveston and Tockington, and the hamlets of Old Down, Ingst and Awkley. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 2,033.[1] Alveston became a separate church parish in 1846. The district has been inhabited since the Stone Age, and the salt marshes that made up almost half of the parish, were progressively drained in Roman and Saxon times. A sea wall was constructed at the same time to prevent flooding from the nearby estuary of the River Severn.

The civil parish forms part of the Severn electoral ward. The parish stretches northwards to Hill. The Severn ward population at the 2011 census was 3,628.[2]

  1. ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Severn ward 2011". Retrieved 21 March 2015.