BITTON, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of LANGLEY-and-SWINEHEAD, county of GLOUCESTER, comprising the chapelries of Hanham and Oldland, and the hamlet of Bitton, and containing 7171 inhabitants, of which number, 1788 are in the hamlet of Bitton, 6 miles (E. S. E.) from Bristol. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £18. 15.; and in the patronage of the Prebendary of Bitton inthe Cathedral Church of Salisbury. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a large and handsome edifice, with a finely ornamented tower, partly Norman, and partly in the later style of English architecture; it contains one thousand and nineteen sittings, of which eight, hundred and eighty-eight are free, and in 1822 was constituted a district church. A chapel was built in 1820, under the provisions of a late act, toward the expense of which the parliamentary commissioners granted £2293. The river Avon flows along the south-- ern side of the parish.