LEIGH (ABBOT'S), a parish in the hundred of
PORTBURY, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (W. N. W.)
from Bristol, containing 317 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Bedminster,
in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath
and Wells. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
This place formerly belonged to the abbot of St. Au-
gustine in Bristol, from which circumstance it derived
its prefix. After the battle of Worcester, Charles II. was
concealed in the old manor-house, which has since been
replaced by an elegant mansion, called Leigh Court, commanding
fine views of the Bristol channel, Gloucestershire,
and the Welch hills.