STOKE-GIFFORD, a parish in the upper division
of the hundred of HENBURY, county of GLOUCESTER
5 miles (N. N. E.) from Bristol, containing 3/6 inhabit
ants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peeuliar
jurisdiction of the Bishop of Bristol, rated in the
king's books at £6, endowed with £c2/5 private benefaction,
and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Duke of Beaufort. The church is dedicated to
St. Michael. John Silcocks, in 1741, bequeathed £200,
directing the interest to be applied for teaching poor
children of this parish and those of Almondsbury,
Filton, and Winterborne; and a school is supported,
partly by this charity, and partly by the Dowager
Duchess of Beaufort, in which twelve boys and twenty-
four girls are educated.