PORTBURY, a parish in the hundred of PORTBURY,
county of SOMERSET, 6 miles (W. by N.) from Bristol
containing 594 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, with that of Tickenham annexed, in the archdeaconry
of Bath, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated
in the king's books at & 10. 11.3., and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Bristol. The church is dedicated to
St. Mary. Portbury is a very ancient place, and gives
name to the hundred. It was occupied by the Romans,
as is evident from the coins and foundations discovered
here, as well as from traces of the Roman road being
still visible through the parish to the sea at Portshead,
whence there was a passage to Caerleon, anciently Isca
Silurum. Here was formerly a cell to the Augustine
priory of Breamore, Hants.