ABSON, or ABSTON, a parish in the hundred of PUCKLECHURCH, county of GLOUCESTER, 7 miles (E. by N.) from Bristol, containing, with the hamlet of Wick, 715 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, united to the vicarage of Puckle-Church, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The church is dedicated to St. James. The village is situated at the foot of a rocky hill, rising to the height of more than two hundred feet, and consisting of alternate beds of limestone and petrosilex. Roman coins, urns, bricks, &c., have been dug up; and here is an ancient camp, supposed to be of British origin.