PUCKLE-CHURCH, a parish in the hundred of PUCKLE-CHURCH, county of GLOUCESTER, 5 miles (S.W. by S.) from Chipping-Sodbury, containing 612 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacies of Abston and Westerleigh, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £14. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Wells. The church, dedicated to St. Thomas k Becket, is partly Norman and partly of later date. The Rev. Henry Berrow, in 1718, founded a free school for ten boys and ten girls; the annual income is £ 52. 10., of which one-fifth is paid towards the education of the poor of Abston and Wick. This was the site of a royal palace of the Saxon kings of England, in which Edmund received a stab from one Leof, that caused his death. A market was formerly held here, but it has been long disused.