Compton Greenfield
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2015}}
{{infobox UK place
|country = England
|official_name= Compton Greenfield
|coordinates = {{coord|51|32|02|N|2|37|20|W|region:GB_type:city|display=inline,title}}
|civil_parish= Almondsbury
|population =
|unitary_england= South Gloucestershire
|lieutenancy_england=Gloucestershire
|region= South West England
|constituency_westminster= Thornbury and Yate
|post_town= BRISTOL
|postcode_district = BS35
|postcode_area= BS
|dial_code= 01454
|os_grid_reference= ST573823
|static_image=All Saints Church, Compton Greenfield - geograph.org.uk - 239049.jpg
|static_image_caption=All Saints Church, Compton Greenfield
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Compton Greenfield is a small hamlet of farms and spread out houses to the south west of Easter Compton, in South Gloucestershire. The parish church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building. It has a Norman arch in its porch, but the church was largely rebuilt in 1852 in the Neo-Norman style.{{NHLE |num=1321095 |accessdate=19 August 2017}} The churchyard of All Saints is the final resting place of Sir George White founder of the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Sir John Francis Davis, second Governor of Hong Kong.{{cite news |title=Untitled |work=Western Daily Press |date=18 November 1890 |accessdate=28 August 2015 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000264/18901118/018/0005|page=5| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}
History
Compton Greenfield was mentioned in the Domesday Book (as Contone).{{cite web|url=http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5782/compton-greenfield/|publisher=Open Domesday|title=Places: Compton [Greenfield]|accessdate=21 August 2017}} In the 13th and 14th centuries the Lords of the Manor were the Grenville family, from whom the village derived its suffix. Until the 19th century the parish extended to the River Severn, and included what is now the much larger village of Easter Compton.{{cite web|url=https://bafhs.org.uk/compton-greenfield/?v=79cba1185463|publisher=Bristol & Avon Family History Society|title=Compton Greenfield|author=Janet Hiscocks|date=2009|accessdate=4 May 2023}} The parish became a civil parish in 1866, but in 1885 the civil parish was merged into the civil parish of Henbury. When the civil parish of Henbury was abolished in 1935, the village became part of the civil parish of Almondsbury.[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/ComptonGreenfield GENUKI website]
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20030901095739/http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/GLS/ComptonGreenfield/AllSaints.html Photo of All Saints Church]
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