a town of Gloucestershire, 7 miles from Bath, 12 from Chipping-Sodbury, 12½ from Bristol, 35 from Gloucester, and 104 from London, on the road to Bristol, and on the very borders of Wilts. It is a considerable clothing-town, drives Marshland a good trade in malt, and is famous for cakes. It consists chiefly of one street of old buildings near a mile long; and is governed by a bailiff. It has a large church, with a well-endowed alms-house and a chapel to it for eight poor people, and a charity-school; and it has a weekly market and two fairs.