EASTON-in-GORDANO, a parish in the hundred
of PORTBURY, county of SOMERSET, 7 miles (W. N. W.)
from Bristol, containing 2109 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and
patronage of the Prebendary of Easton in the Cathedral
Church of Wells, rated in the king's books at £5. 9.4.,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty. The church is dedicated to St. George. There is
a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The river
Avon, which is navigable along the north-east boundary
of the parish, falls into the Bristol channel on the north
of it. At the south-eastern extremity there was anciently
a chapel, the site of which is still called Chapel Pill.