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For elections to Bristol City Council, the area is part of Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze electoral ward. [2] From 1974 to 2016, Westbury-on-Trym was itself an electoral ward, initially electing 3 members to Bristol City Council and 1 member to Avon County Council, [3] and later electing 2 members to the city council after ward boundary changes ...
The name of Henleaze probably derives from a Robert Henley, who in 1659 bought a property which became known as Henley's House and later as Henleaze Park. [2] The area was a rural part of the parish of Westbury on Trym until 1896, when land between Henleaze Road and Durdham Down was sold for development.
Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze is an electoral ward in Bristol, England, covering the neighbourhoods of Henleaze and Westbury-on-Trym in the north-western suburbs of the city. It is represented by three members of Bristol City Council , which as of 2024 [update] are Nicholas Coombes, Caroline Gooch and former government minister Stephen Williams ...
Coombe Dingle is a suburb of Bristol, England, centred near where the Hazel Brook tributary of the River Trym emerges from a limestone gorge bisecting the Blaise Castle Estate to join the main course of the Trym. Historically this area formed part of the parish of Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire, and it is now part of Avonmouth and Lawrence ...
Westbury Park is a suburb of the city of Bristol, United Kingdom. It lies to the east of Durdham Down between the districts of Redland and Henleaze . The area is very similar in character to nearby Redland and comprises mainly Victorian and early twentieth-century architecture, along with a selection of Georgian buildings.
Southmead was a manor of the parish of Westbury on Trym. The manor house, mentioned in a document of 1319, was near the south end of what is now Southmead Road. [3] Most of the estate of 313 acres (1.27 km 2) was sold in the late 19th century.
2010–2024: The City of Bristol wards of Avonmouth, Henbury, Henleaze, Horfield, Kingsweston, Lockleaze, Southmead, Stoke Bishop, and Westbury-on-Trym. Following the review by the Boundary Commission for England into parliamentary representation in the former county of Avon Somerset and Gloucestershire the constituency had boundary changes at ...
When the Bristol Port and Pier Railway Company standard gauge line (so named because Avonmouth as a port did not then exist) was opened beside the Avon in 1865, from Hotwells to a new deep water pier at Avonmouth, the station built on the south side of the Trym to serve the mansions and villas of the wealthy districts of Stoke Bishop and Sneyd Park was therefore called Sea Mills. [8]