LITTLETON (West) is a parish and village in Chipping Sodbury union, containing by the census of 1861, 120, and in 1871, 116 inhabitants, and 1009 acres; in the deanery of Hawkesbury, archdeaconry of Bristol, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, hundred of Grumbalds Ash, West Gloucestershire; 2 miles north from Marshfield, 7 south-east from Yate Station on the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, 9 north from Bath, 6 south-east from Chipping Sodbury, 12 west from Chippenham, and 105 from London. The living is annexed to the rectory of Tormarton. The church, which is a chapel-of-ease to Tormarton, was rebuilt and enlarged in 1855, it consists of nave and chancel, with bell turret and spire rising from the eastern gable. There is a school for children of both sexes. The poor have charitable bequests producing £9 per annum. The Duke of Beaufort is lord of the manor.

Trades and Professions

BALDWIN Joseph, yeoman

CALLOW William, blacksmith

HILLIER Thomas, yeoman

ILES William, farmer

MERCHANT Thomas, parish clerk

OSBORNE Mrs. E. E., yeoman

PRICE William, carpenter

PULLIN James, machine proprietor

SHELLARD William, farmer

Chipping Sodbury is the post town, and Marshfield is the nearest money order office.

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