Priston

Other current and historical names

Prisctone
Prisctona

Built-Up Area: Priston
Parish/Community: Priston
Unitary Authority: Bath and North East Somerset
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°20'35"N 2°26'27"W
Eastings/Northings: 369382, 160542
OS Grid: ST693605
Mapcode Local: GBR JY.VLP4
Mapcode Global: VH899.MHXQ

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Priston within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Priston in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Priston, par. and vil., Somerset - par., 1850 ac., pop. 253; vil., 5 miles SW. of Bath; P.O.

Priston in the Domesday Book

A village in Keynsham hundred, in the county of Somerset.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Bath St Peter
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Bath
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Bath
- Taxable Value: 6 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £6 in 1070; £6 in 1086
- Households: 7 villagers; 8 smallholders; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 6 men's ploughs (8 plough lands)
- Meadow: 20 acres
- Pasture: 80 acres
- Mills: 1, value 7/4¾
- Animals in 1086: 1 cob

British Place Names

Priston, Bath and North East Somerset

Priston is a village in Bath and North East Somerset

Priston in historic gazetteers

Priston in the Domesday Book