2017

2017

Development of new houses on the site of Bitton Mill

1968

1968

Great flood of Bitton More

1935

1935

Oldland Common railway station opens; closed 1966: reopened 1988  More

1913

1913

Sir Bernard Lovell born at Oldland Common More

1894-1981

1894-1981

Upton School Opens 1894 More

1866-1971

1866-1971

Midland Railway opens 1866 and a station at Bitton; closed 1971: reopened by Avon Valley Railway in 1974 More

1851

1851

Torrance & Sons established in Bitton, later to become part of Stothert & Pitt which closed in 1989 More

1850-1916

1850-1916

Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (Canon Ellacombe) vicar of St Mary’s Famous gardener, publishes many articles and books on gardening. More

1849

1849

Papermills built by Wm Somerville on site of brass mill  More

1837

1837

St Anne’s School Oldland opened More

1830

1830

Dramway built carrying coal from Coalpit Heath via North Common, Oldand Common and Willsbridge to Londonderry Wharf on the Avon More

1830

1830

St Anne’s Church Oldland rebuilt More

1830-8

1830-8

National School Bitton built (now Church Hall): National School at Oldland built  More

1821

1821

Invention of the Ellacombe Chimes Apparatus by Rev H.T. Ellacombe More

1819

1819

Turnpike House Cherry Garden is built

1819

1819

Bitton Land Enclosures 1819, including Oldland Common and North Common. The Meadows, Bitton enclosed 1862

1817-50

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

1811-15

Bitton Troop formed to fight crime; 25 members Cock Road Gang gaoled  More

1810-1910

1810-1910

Thirteen chapels built in Bitton Parish in the nineteenth century More

1739

1739

George Whitfield first preaches in open air at Hanham Mount

1712

1712

Iron Mills at Willsbridge are built by John Pearsall

1670

1670

Over 70 coalpits in the area of Kingswood Forest More

1587

1587

Fieldgrove House, Bitton is built home of Sir John Harrington (possibly Godson of Queen Elizabeth I)

1299

1299

The Lady Chapel is added to St Mary’s Church by Thomas de Bitton, Bishop of Exeter More

1280-87

1280-87

The Grange, later the home of the Seymours, built.  Followed by building of  Court Farm (name later changed to Church Farm

1280

1280

Building of St Anne’s Church Oldland  More

1086

1086

Building of St Mary the Virgin Church; tower built 1377  More

1086

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

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

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.