ALVESTON, a parish partly in the lower, but chiefly
in the upper, division of the hundred of LANGLEY-and-SWINEHEAD,
county of GLOUCESTER, 3 miles (S. byE.)
from Thornbury, containing 657 inhabitants. The
living is a vicarage with that of Olveston, in the peculiar
jurisdiction of the Bishop of Bristol. The church is a
small edifice, with a low tower, situated at some distance
from the village. There is a place of worship for
Wesleyan Methodists.