GEORGE (ST.), a parish in the hundred of BARTON-REGIS,
county of GLOUCESTER, 2 miles (E.) from Bristol,
containing 5334 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage
not in charge, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and
diocese of Bristol, and in the patronage of the Mayor
and Corporation of Bristol. The church Was consecrated
in 1756. This place, which is bounded on the
south by the Avon, was constituted a distinct parish by
act of parliament in the 24th of George II., having been
previously part of the out-parish of St. Philip and St.
Jacob, Bristol; and was called Easton (East-town) from
its situation, and more anciently Bertune. Many coal
pits are worked in the parish, some of which arc of a
very unusual depth. There are several small bequests
for the education of children. Anciently there was an
hospital for lepers, dedicated to St. Lawrence.