AUST, (Gloucestershire) a hamlet, which is a chapel to Henbury, though 'tis 8 m. from the Ch. and 10 m. above Bristol; is
a dirty village among the salt-marshes by the Severn-side, only frequented for its ferries over that r. to Bleachly, at
the mouth of the Wye; tho' 'tis not near so much used as formerly, since the establishment of that called the New-passage,
1 m. and a half lower down, which is reckoned much the safest. It was formerly called Aust-Clive, from its situation on a
cliff, and the manor was settled a good while in the family of the Capels, till they sold it to Sir Samuel Attry, by whose
daughter it passed to the Randals; and from the latter it came to the Veels. Mr. Camden remarks, that this was the place
from whence K. Edward the elder passed over to hold a conference with Llewellin Prince of Wales.