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

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. It has a Norman arch in its porch, but the church was largely rebuilt in 1852 in the Neo-Norman style. 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

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History

Compton Greenfield was mentioned in the

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(as ''Contone''). In the 13th and 14th centuries the

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were the Grenville family, from whom the village derived its suffix. Until the 19th century the parish extended to the

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, and included what is now the much larger village of Easter Compton. The parish became a

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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

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{{South Gloucestershire Villages in South Gloucestershire District Former civil parishes in Gloucestershire