In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Weir like this:
WEIR, a chapelry in St. Paul-Within, St. Peter, and St. Philip and St. Jacob parishes, Gloucester; within. Bristol city. It was constituted in 1846. Pop., 4,011. Houses, 569. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £150.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. See Bristol.
The location is that of the church of St Matthias-on-the-Weir. Additional information about this locality is available for Bristol
Weir through time
Weir is now part of Bristol district. Click here for graphs and data of how Bristol has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Weir itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Weir, in Bristol and Gloucestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24008
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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