Memories of Bitton

historybuff, on August 10, 2007, said:

Bitton was also a place with a reputation for lawlessness and one of the new Curate's first duties was to bury Beniamin Caines, leading member of the notorious Cockroad Gang, who had been hanged at Gloucester Gaol.

By now, however, steps had been taken to split up the unwieldy Parish - St. George Church was opened in 1756 and Holy Trinity, Kingswood, was consecrated in 1821. Ellacombe energetically carried on this work and was instrumental in new Churches being built at Jeffries Hill, Hanham, in 1844 and Warmley in 1851.

Besides these, he also rebuilt St. Anne's, Oldland and restored Bitton Church.

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