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The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, such as the village hall or community centre, playing fields and playgrounds, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street ...
Amongst the gravestones and memorials in the churchyard are several which are Grade II* listed buildings. The oldest is for John and Alice Smith who died in 1591. [8] A chest tomb of Elizabeth Phelps from 1698, [9] and one of Anna Whiting from 1700, [10] The memorial to George Whiting was added in 1709, [11] and Robert Whiting in 1662, [12] while another Robert Whiting is from 1679, [13] and ...
Long Ashton was a rural district in Somerset, England, from 1894 to 1974. It was created in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894 . In 1974 it was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972 to become part of North Somerset .
Escutcheon of the Smith baronets of Long Ashton. The Smith baronetcy of Long Ashton, Somerset, was created in the Baronetage of England on 16 May 1661, for Hugh Smith of Ashton Court, following the English Restoration, in recognition of the family's loyalty to the Crown. [1]
Bower Ashton is a village in south west Bristol on the western boundary with North Somerset, lying within the Southville ward, approximately two miles from the city centre. Ashton Court estate, a 850-acre (3.4 km 2 ) recreational area owned by Bristol City Council lies just to the north, the Long Ashton by-pass (Brunel Way, the A370) to the ...
The council wards located in the Bristol South parliamentary constituency are as follows, along with their population estimated by Bristol City Council in 2019: Bedminster - 12,500 [4] Bishopsworth - 11,400 [5] Filwood - 13,800 [6] Hartcliffe and Withywood - 19,000 [7] Hengrove and Whitchurch Park - 17,200 [8] Knowle - 13,300 [9] Southville ...
The village is in the civil parish of Long Ashton, but in the ecclesiastical parish of Abbots Leigh with Leigh Woods. The church of St Mary the Virgin was designed by the architect John Medland and built in 1891. [3] [4]
Map showing the boundaries of the present-day civil parishes of Somerset. Recent governments have encouraged the formation of town and parish councils in unparished areas, and the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 gave local residents the right to demand the creation of a new civil parish. [20]