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Bristol City Council is the local authority for the city of Bristol, in South West England. Bristol has had a council from medieval times, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1996 the council has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council.
City Hall (formerly the Council House) was built as the seat of government of the city of Bristol, in the south west of England, opening in 1956.Designed in the 1930s, with construction delayed by the Second World War, it is in a restrained Neo-Georgian style, forming a wide curve along one side of College Green, opposite Bristol Cathedral and at the foot of Park Street in the Bristol city ...
Bristol City Council, formerly known as The Bristol Corporation (and colloquially as "The Corporation"), is the local government authority governing the city of Bristol, England. Following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, successive royal charters granted increasing rights of local governance to Bristol. County status was attained in ...
Stockwood forms an outermost southern suburb of the city with much green space; the upper part of Stockwood is set on a plateau surrounded by pasture and the lower part a wooded valley, bordered to its west by the old Bristol and North Somerset Railway rail line which is now a cycle way.
The City of Bristol is a ceremonial county governed by a unitary authority; Bristol City Council.The city is divided into 34 wards, which each elect one, two or three councillors (depending on the population of the ward) for a four-year term.
Ashley contains the neighbourhoods of Montpelier, St Andrews, St Paul's and St Werburgh's, along with parts of Baptist Mills and Stokes Croft.Its southern boundary is Bristol's inner ring road; the south-eastern boundary is the M32 motorway and its extension, Newfoundland Road; to the north-east it is Filton Bank railway; and to the west is the A38 road (Stokes Croft, Cheltenham Road and ...
Bristol (/ ˈ b r ɪ s t əl / ⓘ) is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. [9] [10] Built around the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south.
The Centre is a public open space in the central area of Bristol, England, created by covering over the River Frome. [1] The northern end of The Centre, known as Magpie Park, is skirted on its western edge by Colston Avenue; [2] the southern end is a larger paved area bounded by St Augustine's Parade to the west, Broad Quay the east, and St Augustine's Reach (part of the Floating Harbour) to ...