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- Bishopston owes its name and its existence as a suburb to James Monk, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol 1836 to 1856.
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Bishopston owes its name and its existence as a suburb to James Monk, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol 1836 to 1856. This area, called in those days Horfield Great Farm was church land, leased out on the ancient 'lives' system.
Bishopston is a suburb of the city of Bristol in south west England. Bishopston is around Gloucester Road ( A38 ), the main northern arterial road in the city and Bishop Road. 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.
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Bishopston the council district and associated parish are relatively new. It was created out of the parish of Horfield in the mid 19th.century after the consecration of St. Michaels and All Angels in 1862. The Church stood on the east of Gloucester Road on Pigsty Hill but after it fell into disrepair in the 1990s, mainly due to subsidence, was demo...
An extract from: The Hidden History of St Andrews, Bristol Kindly supplied by local author Michael Manson of Past & Present Press enquiries@pastandpresentpress.co.uk The Hidden History of St Andrews is available from www.tangentbooks.co.uk The St Andrew’s building boom began in the 1870s. It was a hesitant start. Stuart Colman is said to be respons...
This friendly local history group provides a programme of lectures and events to promote an interest and understanding of all aspects of local and social history in the immediate area and Bristol as a whole. They undertake and encourage research into all aspects of the area and encourage knowledge, appreciation and preservation of its history. The ...
The origins of Bishopston - the council district and associated parish, lie in the much earlier established parish of Horfield. It has been suggested that the name Horfield came from Hore, or Horu, possibly the name of a chief killed in a fight between the Saxons and the Romano-British, and buried in one of the two tumuli which were originally ...
Value, £150. Patron, the Bishop. The church is a plain building. Additional information about this locality is available for Horfield. Bishopston through time. Bishopston is now part of Bristol district. Click here for graphs and data of how Bristol has changed over two centuries.
The name Bishopston originates from the Norman Conquest, although pre-Norman names for the town vary. One name was Llanmerwall (or Llanmerwallt), and is similar to the modern Welsh name. Two further names are recorded: Porthdulon (or Porthtulon ), possibly referring to the area of Caswell, and Llancyngur Trosgardi .
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.
