2017
Development of new houses on the site of Bitton Mill
1968
Great flood of Bitton More
1935
Oldland Common railway station opens; closed 1966: reopened 1988 More
1913
Sir Bernard Lovell born at Oldland Common More
1894-1981
Upton School Opens 1894 More
1866-1971
Midland Railway opens 1866 and a station at Bitton; closed 1971: reopened by Avon Valley Railway in 1974 More
1851
Torrance & Sons established in Bitton, later to become part of Stothert & Pitt which closed in 1989 More
1850-1916
Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (Canon Ellacombe) vicar of St Mary’s Famous gardener, publishes many articles and books on gardening. More
1849
Papermills built by Wm Somerville on site of brass mill More
1837
St Anne’s School Oldland opened More
1830
St Anne’s Church Oldland rebuilt More
1830-8
National School Bitton built (now Church Hall): National School at Oldland built More
1821
Invention of the Ellacombe Chimes Apparatus by Rev H.T. Ellacombe More
1819
Turnpike House Cherry Garden is built
1819
Bitton Land Enclosures 1819, including Oldland Common and North Common. The Meadows, Bitton enclosed 1862
1817-50
Henry Thomas Ellacombe was curate and then vicar of St Mary’s and then vicar. He publishes The History of the Parish of Bitton (2 vols. 1881, 1883) also an authority on bells and a renowned gardener More
1811-15
Bitton Troop formed to fight crime; 25 members Cock Road Gang gaoled More
1810-1910
Thirteen chapels built in Bitton Parish in the nineteenth century More
1739
George Whitfield first preaches in open air at Hanham Mount
1712
Iron Mills at Willsbridge are built by John Pearsall
1670
Over 70 coalpits in the area of Kingswood Forest More
1587
Fieldgrove House, Bitton is built home of Sir John Harrington (possibly Godson of Queen Elizabeth I)
1299
The Lady Chapel is added to St Mary’s Church by Thomas de Bitton, Bishop of Exeter More
1280-87
The Grange, later the home of the Seymours, built. Followed by building of Court Farm (name later changed to Church Farm
1280
Building of St Anne’s Church Oldland More
1086
Building of St Mary the Virgin Church; tower built 1377 More
1086
Betune is recorded as the village name in the Doomsday Book. Here there were 5 villeins , 2 bordars, 4 slaves and 10 acres of meadow More
863 BC
Legendry King Bladud contracts leprosy, is employed as a swineherd at Swineford and is then cured in hot springs at Bath
43 – 410
Roman Road runs through Bitton, Via Julia connecting Aquae Sulis (now Bath) and Caerwent or Caerleon in South Wales. Romans built two stations between these at Abona (Sea Mills) and Trajectus which was possibly Bitton.