OLDLAND, a chapelry in the parish of BITTON,
upper division of the hundred of LANGLEY-and-SWINEHEAD,
county of GLOUCESTER, 5 miles (E. S.E.)
from Bristol, containing 4297 inhabitants. The chapel
has lately received an addition of three hundred and
eighty-five free sittings, the Incorporated Society for the
enlargement of churches and chapels having granted
£408 towards defraying the expense. An additional
chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, has been built,
under the provisions of a late act, towards defraying
the expense of which the same society contributed
£700; it contains one thousand and nineteen sitting
of which eight hundred and eighty-eight are free. The
navigable river Avon, and the Julian way, pass'in the
vicinity.