Bishopston, Bristol









































































Bishopston

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Boundaries of the Council Ward, shown within Bristol.
Population 13,871 (2011.Ward)[1]
OS grid reference ST586755
Unitary authority
  • Bristol
Ceremonial county
  • Bristol
Region
  • South West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Bristol
Postcode district BS7
Dialling code 0117
Police Avon and Somerset
Fire Avon
Ambulance South Western

EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament
  • Bristol West


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Bishopston is both a council ward of the city of Bristol, England, and a suburb of the city that falls within that ward. Bishopston is around Gloucester Road (A38), the main northern arterial road in the city. The ward includes St Bonaventures and Ashley Down parishes, as well as part of Horfield. It is linked with KV Kuppam in Tamil Nadu, India.




Contents






  • 1 Politics


  • 2 Areas within the council ward


    • 2.1 Bishopston


    • 2.2 Ashley Down


    • 2.3 Horfield




  • 3 Education


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Politics


Bishopston is in the Bristol West parliamentary constituency and elects two City Councillors. Its MP is Labour's Thangam Debbonaire and its councillors are Labour's Tom Brook and Green Party's Eleanor Combley.



Areas within the council ward



Bishopston


Bishopston is named after the bishop of the local diocese who controversially sold off the church's land to private developers in the early 19th century. The sale was even raised as an issue in the House of Commons. The parish of Bishopston was then created in July 1862 with a population of 1300 and expanding to 9140 in the Census 1901. In the Census 2001 Bishopston registered a resident population of 11,996. The district is part of the Bristol built-up area, having been swallowed by the growing city, running directly into the surrounding districts of Redland, Ashley Down, Horfield and Henleaze.


The area has a relatively large student population, with 21% of the over-16 population in education compared to 8.4% in Bristol and 5.1% in England and Wales.


Some of the location filming for the cult BBC sitcom The Young Ones was done in Codrington Road and elsewhere. The external shots for the famous "bank-robbing" scene in the last episode were filmed outside the now closed Bristol North Swimming Baths on Gloucester Road.




Bristol North swimming baths and The Bristol Flyer Pub


Bishopston was the home of two Nobel Prize–winning physicists. In 1933 Paul Dirac, who attended the Bishop Road Primary School, just a few hundred metres from where he lived on Monk Road, won the prize after his contributions to quantum mechanics. In 1950 Cecil Frank Powell won the prestigious award for contributions to Physics (specifically, for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method). Bishopston was home to television presenter Adam Hart-Davis and psychologist Susan Blackmore.


The area has produced many musicians of note Robert "3D" Del Naja and Daddy G of Massive Attack. DJ Collective Stanton Warriors and International DJ Nick Warren.


Juventus and Italian footballer Alessandro Del Piero also lived in the district for a period as a child when his father worked as a restaurateur in the thriving Italian community that lives there.


The famous film star Cary Grant (real name Archibald Alexander Leach) attended Bishop Road School in Bishopston. As a child he lived nearby in Hughenden Road next to Horfield Common, where there is a blue plaque to commemorate him.


Bishopston has two primary schools, St. Bonaventure's Catholic Primary School which served the huge Italian Irish and South American Catholic community and Bishop Road Primary School COE which was a secondary school up until the mid 1980s and served children of the Anglican faith and drew in children from the Asian and Jamaican community in St Paul's and Montpellier.




Gloucester Road, the main route through Bishopston, is known for its independent shops.


The main artery, Gloucester Road well known for its pubs and restaurants, and one of the last remaining local high streets in the country,[2] is well used by local residents. In addition to the independently-run shops such as Scoopaway, La Ruca, Gardener's Patch and Harvest, recent years has seen several supermarket chains opening stores in the area. This, and the range of fairly traded and local goods available, has made it popular with ecologically-minded shoppers.


Bishopston is home to Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, located off Nevil Road. The ground's capacity has been increased to hold international cricket matches.


The David Thomas Memorial church, in neighbouring St Andrews, was erected between 1879 and 1881 but was demolished in 1987, destroying most of a Gothic fantasy by Stuart Coleman. The building still retains a thin octagonal spire and west front but the massive halls, apse and rib vaults have now gone, and have been replaced by flats by Stride Treglown.



Ashley Down


Main article: Ashley Down

The area of Ashley Down is divided between the Bishopston and Ashley wards of the city of Bristol. The Brunel campus of City of Bristol College lies within the Bishopston ward as does the Brunel Field site of Ashley Down Junior School, which opened in 2011.[3]



Horfield


Main article: Horfield

A section of Horfield also lies within the boundaries of the Bishopston ward. Part of Horfield Common, as well as the Memorial Stadium, home of Bristol Rovers lies within the ward.



Education


Bishopston is the location of Bishop Road Primary School, which opened in 1900,[4] and is the largest primary school in Bristol,[5] notable for having educated Cary Grant and Paul Dirac.[6]



References





  1. ^ "Bishopston" (PDF). 2011 Census Ward Information Sheet. Retrieved 26 February 2015..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "The last great British high street". The Independent. London. 8 August 2004. Archived from the original on 1 October 2007.


  3. ^ "New buildings will boost school places". Bristol Evening Post. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2011.


  4. ^ "Bishop Road Primary School Inspection Report" (PDF). Ofsted. 19 May 2011. Retrieved August 12, 2012.


  5. ^ "Bristol's biggest primary school gets even bigger". This Is Bristol. August 31, 2009. Archived from the original on May 5, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2012.


  6. ^ "Bristol celebrates Hollywood 'son'". BBC. 8 December 2001. Retrieved August 12, 2012.




External links







  • Census data

  • Photographs of Bishopston at the Geograph project


  • Bristol Buddhist Centre meeting in Gloucester Road, Bishopston


  • Bishopston Trading A fair trade workers cooperative.



Coordinates: 51°28′37″N 2°35′51″W / 51.47693°N 2.59751°W / 51.47693; -2.59751







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