Olveston
![The Mediaeval Gateway of Olveston Court by Samuel Loxton, c. 1890. The gateway and moat may be compared to that at Markenfield Hall, Yorkshire. (Bristol Reference Library)](/Images/godic/202501/30/OlvestonCourtLoxton4513.jpg")
![Denys monumental brass, 1505, Olveston Church, east wall of south transept](/Images/godic/202501/30/Denys_funerary_brass,_Saint_Mary_the_Virgin,_Olveston,_Gloucestershire,_England_-_200909204513.jpg")
![Rubbing from Denys monumental brass, 1505, Olveston Church.
Maurice Denys(d.1466) to L. Sir Walter Denys(d.1506), his son, to R. The Denys paternal armorials are blazoned at top left: 3 leopard's faces jessant-de-lis overall a bend engrailled](/Images/godic/202501/30/Rubbing_of_the_Denys_funerary_brass,_Saint_Mary_the_Virgin,_Olveston,_Gloucestershire,_England4513.jpg")
![Olveston Court, view of remnant of moat and crenellated wall, situated immediately to the left of the gatehouse as depicted above by Loxton](/Images/godic/202501/30/OlvestonCourtMoat4513.jpg")
Olveston is a small village and larger parish in South Gloucestershire, England. The parish comprises the villages of Olveston and Tockington, and the hamlets of Old Down, Ingst and Awkley. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 2,033. Alveston became a separate parish in 1846. The district has been inhabited since the Stone Age, and the salt marshes that made up almost half of the parish, were progressively drained in Roman and Saxon times. A sea wall was constructed at the same time to prevent flooding from the nearby estuary of the River Severn.