MANGOTSFIELD, a parish in the hundred of
BARTON-REGIS, county of GLOUCESTER, 5 miles
(N. E. by E.) from Bristol, containing 3179 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the jurisdiction of
the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Bristol, endowed
with £400 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and
£1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
Thomas Wadham, Esq. The church is dedicated to St,
James. There is a place of worship for Independents.
Here was once a nunnery, of which part of the cloisters
was seen by Leland, but there is not now any vestige
of it.