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'''Eastville''' is |
'''Eastville''' is an [[inner suburb]]an neighbourhood and an [[Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom|electoral ward]] in [[Bristol]], [[England]], located around {{convert|2|mile|km}} northeast of [[The Centre, Bristol|The Centre]]. It is roughly centred on Muller Road between its junctions with Stapleton Road and Fishponds Road. |
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| ⚫ | Eastville is known for [[Eastville Park]], a large park with a small lake, just to the east of the M32.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.parkdetectives.org/pdfs/ep-factsheet.pdf |title=Factsheet – Eastville Park |publisher=Avon Gardens Trust |access-date=19 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040610030423/http://www.parkdetectives.org/pdfs/ep-factsheet.pdf |archive-date=10 June 2004 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name=parksandgardens-20070727>{{cite web |url=http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/1208 |title=Eastville Park, Bristol, England |id=1208 |publisher=Parks & Gardens UK |date=27 July 2007 |access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref> The lake at Eastville Park was constructed as an unemployment relief scheme following a campaign by [[Ernest Bevin]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Eaton |first1=George |title=Ernest Bevin: The forgotten titan of Labourism |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2020/08/ernest-bevin-the-forgotten-titan-of-labourism |work=New Statesman |date=12 August 2020}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | The [[River Frome, Bristol|River Frome]] flows roughly south-southwest through the neighbourhood, and has been closely shadowed by the [[M32 motorway]] since its construction in the early 1970s. The motorway crosses the neighbourhood on an elevated flyover over its junction with Muller Road, creating community severance.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Parkes |first1=Pamela |title=‘A dagger into the heart of Bristol’ |url=https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/a-dagger-into-the-heart-of-bristol/ |access-date=5 August 2024 |work=Bristol 24/7 |date=14 December 2015}}</ref> |
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The council ward is situated between the [[Easton, Bristol|Easton]] and [[Frome Vale (ward)|Frome Vale]] wards in the north-east of the city. The north-western boundary is the [[M32 motorway]], which roughly follows the [[River Frome, Bristol|River Frome]], beyond which is [[Lockleaze]] ward. |
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== Eastville == |
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[[File:Eastville Park, south-west.jpg|thumb|left|Eastville Park]] |
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==Location and boundaries== |
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| ⚫ | The [[River Frome, Bristol|River Frome]] flows roughly south-southwest through the neighbourhood, and has been closely shadowed by the [[M32 motorway]] since its construction in the early 1970s. The motorway crosses the neighbourhood on an elevated flyover over its junction with Muller Road, creating community severance.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Parkes |first1=Pamela |title=‘A dagger into the heart of Bristol’ |url=https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/a-dagger-into-the-heart-of-bristol/ |access-date=5 August 2024 |work=Bristol 24/7 |date=14 December 2015}}</ref> |
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As an informally defined neighbourhood, originating as a hamlet within the parish of [[Stapleton, Bristol|Stapleton]], Eastville long existed without official boundaries, and the area that has been formally defined for the electoral ward includes neighbourhoods in the north and east of the ward that might not traditionally have been thought of as part of Eastville, while omitting the western part of the area that is commonly thought of Eastville. |
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The motorway is the western boundary of the Eastville electoral ward, meaning that areas to the west that might traditionally have been considered in Eastville, including Glenfrome Road<ref>{{cite web | url=https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/108931 | title=Glenfrome Primary School | quote=Address: Cottisford Road, Eastville, Bristol, BS5 6TY | publisher=Gov.UK}}</ref> and the Old Eastville Library on Muller Road,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://theoldlibrary.org.uk | title=The Old Library, Eastville}}</ref> are in Lockleaze electoral ward rather than Eastville electoral ward.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E05010908 | title=Lockleaze Ward (as of 2022) | publisher=nomis}}</ref> |
The [[M32 motorway]] is the western boundary of the Eastville electoral ward, meaning that areas to the west that might traditionally have been considered in Eastville, including Glenfrome Road<ref>{{cite web | url=https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/108931 | title=Glenfrome Primary School | quote=Address: Cottisford Road, Eastville, Bristol, BS5 6TY | publisher=Gov.UK}}</ref> and the Old Eastville Library on Muller Road,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://theoldlibrary.org.uk | title=The Old Library, Eastville}}</ref> are in [[Lockleaze]] electoral ward rather than Eastville electoral ward.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E05010908 | title=Lockleaze Ward (as of 2022) | publisher=nomis}}</ref> |
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==History== |
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A large railway viaduct known as 'The Thirteen Arches' for obvious reasons, once ran through the area, roughly parallel to the current Muller Road; it was demolished in 1968.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=http://www.britishpathe.com/video/viaduct-demolished |title=Viaduct Demolished |publisher=British Pathe |type=Motion picture |date=26 May 1968 |id=3311.14 / UN 4356 C |access-date=4 January 2016}}</ref> This was part of the [[Clifton Extension Railway]]. |
A large railway viaduct known as 'The Thirteen Arches' for obvious reasons, once ran through the area, roughly parallel to the current Muller Road; it was demolished in 1968.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=http://www.britishpathe.com/video/viaduct-demolished |title=Viaduct Demolished |publisher=British Pathe |type=Motion picture |date=26 May 1968 |id=3311.14 / UN 4356 C |access-date=4 January 2016}}</ref> This was part of the [[Clifton Extension Railway]]. |
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The [[Eastville Workhouse]], originally the Barton Regis Union Workhouse,<ref name=brhg-20150210>{{cite web |url=http://www.brh.org.uk/site/articles/great-western-cotton-works-barton-hill/ |title=Eastville And Stapleton Workhouses |publisher=Bristol Radical History Group |date=10 February 2015 |access-date=25 June 2015}}</ref> was a former French Prison which was bought from the Government circa 1832.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bristol, Gloucestershire|url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Bristol/|publisher=The Workhouse|access-date=11 October 2015}}</ref> In 1930, the Stapleton Workhouse, originally the Bristol Union Workhouse,<ref name=brhg-20150210/> became the Stapleton Institution and by the Second World War the site was mainly used for the care of the mentally ill and the elderly; eventually becoming [[Blackberry Hill Hospital]]. |
The [[Eastville Workhouse]], originally the Barton Regis Union Workhouse,<ref name=brhg-20150210>{{cite web |url=http://www.brh.org.uk/site/articles/great-western-cotton-works-barton-hill/ |title=Eastville And Stapleton Workhouses |publisher=Bristol Radical History Group |date=10 February 2015 |access-date=25 June 2015}}</ref> was a former French Prison which was bought from the Government circa 1832.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bristol, Gloucestershire|url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Bristol/|publisher=The Workhouse|access-date=11 October 2015}}</ref> In 1930, the Stapleton Workhouse, originally the Bristol Union Workhouse,<ref name=brhg-20150210/> became the Stapleton Institution and by the Second World War the site was mainly used for the care of the mentally ill and the elderly; eventually becoming [[Blackberry Hill Hospital]]. |
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==Electoral ward== |
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== Crofts End == |
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'''Crofts End''' (also known as Clay Hill) is a suburb of [[Bristol]]. It is an industrialised area, with many small [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] houses, built when this area was a coal mining community. |
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=== Churches === |
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[[Crofts End Church]] was established in 1895 by George Brown, as a Christian work for miner's children in The Freestone Rank, Whitehall Road, it became known as The Miner's Mission.<ref>{{cite news|title=Miner-turned-preacher George dug deep for city|url=http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Miner-turned-preacher-George-dug-deep-city/story-27536228-detail/story.html|access-date=11 October 2015|work=Western Daily Press|date=28 July 2015}}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> It is now part of the local and much wider community but still very much a family church. The pastor is Andrew Yelland.<ref>{{cite web | title=Crofts End Church | url=http://www.croftsend.org | access-date=25 October 2006}}</ref> |
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|image = [[File:Bristol UK ward map 2016 eastville.png|240px]] |
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|caption = Ward boundaries since 2016. |
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The church was built on a site bounded by [[Market gardening|market gardens]], a [[Brickworks|brick works]] and Deep Pit [[Colliery]]. When The Beaufort Arms, then known as The Beatem and Wackem and now called The Wackum Inn was the place where most miners spent their hard earned wages! Hence the need for a children's work in that community. |
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Another local church was Clay Hill Chapel which was demolished when the industrial estates were built. |
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In the 1920s the area consisted primarily of market gardens and a [[Brickworks|brick and tile works]] with a [[clay pit]].<ref name=archives->{{cite web |url=https://archives.bristol.gov.uk/records/44819/3/122 |title=Photograph: Clay Hill/Crofts End Brick and Tile Works. Greenbank Cemetery in top left. c. 1920s-1930s |website=Bristol Archives |access-date=13 August 2023}}</ref> Over many years, the Market Gardens became housing, White's Brick Works became Somers Wood Yard (now an industrial pallet site) – and Deep Pit Colliery became industrial estates. When Deep Pit closed, men were having to walk underground as far as [[Frenchay]] to reach the coal face. |
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|population = 14,865<ref name=census2021>{{cite web |title=2021 Census Area Profile: Bristol |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021/report?compare=E06000023,E92000001 |publisher=Office for National Statistics}}</ref> |
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=== Housing === |
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|electorate = 10,721<ref name=bcc2024>{{cite web |title=Local councillors election 2024 |url=https://www.bristol.gov.uk/council/voting-and-elections/election-results-2012-to-2023/local-councillor-election-2024/ |publisher=Bristol City Council |language=en-gb}}</ref> |
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Crofts End House, located at the junction of Plummer's Hill and Whitehall Avenue, still exists, but no longer as a single dwelling. It has been refurbished and is now part of a housing association development. |
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|region = England |
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|county = Bristol |
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|westminster1 = Bristol North East |
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|councillor1 = Lorraine Francis |
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|party1 = Green Party of England and Wales |
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|councillor2 = Ed Fraser |
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|party2 = Green Party of England and Wales |
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| ⚫ | Eastville electoral ward includes [[Crofts End]] (also known as Clay Hill), in the east of the ward, and [[Stapleton, Bristol|Stapleton]], in the north. Notable places within the ward include [[Bristol Metropolitan Academy]] and [[Collegiate School (Bristol)|Collegiate School]], and the [[Bristol and Bath Railway Path]] also passes through the ward.<ref name=wardmap>{{cite web |url=https://www.bristol.gov.uk/documents/20182/34844/Eastville+Ward.pdf |title=Eastville ward map |author=Bristol City Council |access-date=4 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803130314/https://www.bristol.gov.uk/documents/20182/34844/Eastville+Ward.pdf |archive-date=3 August 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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The area is undergoing more change as the majority of '[[Prefabs in the UK|prefabs]]' (built by [[Military of the United States|American Service-men]] as post war housing) in the locality have been demolished. Planning applications will replace these with mixed style housing. |
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The ward is represented by two members of [[Bristol City Council]], which {{as of|2024|lc=y}} are Lorraine Francis and Ed Fraser of the [[Green Party of England and Wales]]. |
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The old, redundant Civil Defence building on the junction of Crofts End Road and Brook Road was demolished and housing association flats were built on the site, now named "Craftes Court". |
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Eastville ward was created in 1974, electing three members to Bristol City Council and one member to [[Avon County Council]].<ref name=ward1973/> Boundaries were redrawn and the city council size adjusted in 198-, after which Eastville ward elected two members to the city council and one to the county council, until the abolition of the [[county of Avon]] in 1996. Boundaries were further adjusted in 1999, when parts of [[Greenbank, Bristol|Greenbank]] that had been in Eastville ward transferred to [[Easton, Bristol|Easton]] ward,<ref name=lgbce1999>{{cite web |title=Bristol electoral review 1997-1998 |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20221201174844mp_/https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/8540/somerset-bristol_6491-6095__e__.pdf |website=Local Government Boundary Commission for England}}</ref> and again in 2016, when Eastville gained parts of Whitefield Road from [[Hillfields, Bristol|Hillfields]] ward, and lost parts of Broom Hill to [[Frome Vale]] ward.<ref name=lgbce2015>{{cite web |title=Bristol |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20221201172124/https://www.lgbce.org.uk/all-reviews/south-west/bristol/bristol |publisher=Local Government Boundary Commission for England}}</ref> |
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== Stapleton == |
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'''Stapleton''' is a suburb of Bristol which lies in the east of the city. |
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Latest revision as of 20:12, 18 August 2024
| Eastville | |
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 Eastville Park | |
  Eastville Location within Bristol | |
| Population | 14,865 (ward)[1] |
| • Density | 4,175.7 per km2 (ward) |
| Households | 6,099 (ward) |
| OS grid reference | ST613752 |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BRISTOL |
| Postcode district | BS5 |
| Dialling code | 0117 |
| Police | Avon and Somerset |
| Fire | Avon |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
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Eastville is an inner suburban neighbourhood and an electoral ward in Bristol, England, located around 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of The Centre. It is roughly centred on Muller Road between its junctions with Stapleton Road and Fishponds Road.
Eastville is known for Eastville Park, a large park with a small lake, just to the east of the M32.[2][3] The lake at Eastville Park was constructed as an unemployment relief scheme following a campaign by Ernest Bevin.[4]
The River Frome flows roughly south-southwest through the neighbourhood, and has been closely shadowed by the M32 motorway since its construction in the early 1970s. The motorway crosses the neighbourhood on an elevated flyover over its junction with Muller Road, creating community severance.[5]
On the west bank of the Frome is Eastgate shopping centre, home to a large IKEA and Tesco. The site was formerly Eastville Stadium, once home of Bristol Rovers Football Club, as well as being a site for greyhound racing and speedway.
Location and boundaries
[edit]As an informally defined neighbourhood, originating as a hamlet within the parish of Stapleton, Eastville long existed without official boundaries, and the area that has been formally defined for the electoral ward includes neighbourhoods in the north and east of the ward that might not traditionally have been thought of as part of Eastville, while omitting the western part of the area that is commonly thought of Eastville.
The M32 motorway is the western boundary of the Eastville electoral ward, meaning that areas to the west that might traditionally have been considered in Eastville, including Glenfrome Road[6] and the Old Eastville Library on Muller Road,[7] are in Lockleaze electoral ward rather than Eastville electoral ward.[8]
History
[edit]A large railway viaduct known as 'The Thirteen Arches' for obvious reasons, once ran through the area, roughly parallel to the current Muller Road; it was demolished in 1968.[9] This was part of the Clifton Extension Railway.
The Eastville Workhouse, originally the Barton Regis Union Workhouse,[10] was a former French Prison which was bought from the Government circa 1832.[11] In 1930, the Stapleton Workhouse, originally the Bristol Union Workhouse,[10] became the Stapleton Institution and by the Second World War the site was mainly used for the care of the mentally ill and the elderly; eventually becoming Blackberry Hill Hospital.
Electoral ward
[edit]| Eastville | |
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| ward Bristol City Council. | |
 Ward boundaries since 2016. | |
| County | Bristol |
| Population | 14,865[12] |
| Electorate | 10,721[13] |
| Current ward | |
| Created | 1974[14] |
| Councillor | Lorraine Francis (Green) |
| Councillor | Ed Fraser (Green) |
| UK Parliament constituency | Bristol North East |
Eastville electoral ward includes Crofts End (also known as Clay Hill), in the east of the ward, and Stapleton, in the north. Notable places within the ward include Bristol Metropolitan Academy and Collegiate School, and the Bristol and Bath Railway Path also passes through the ward.[15]
The ward is represented by two members of Bristol City Council, which as of 2024[update] are Lorraine Francis and Ed Fraser of the Green Party of England and Wales.
Eastville ward was created in 1974, electing three members to Bristol City Council and one member to Avon County Council.[14] Boundaries were redrawn and the city council size adjusted in 198-, after which Eastville ward elected two members to the city council and one to the county council, until the abolition of the county of Avon in 1996. Boundaries were further adjusted in 1999, when parts of Greenbank that had been in Eastville ward transferred to Easton ward,[16] and again in 2016, when Eastville gained parts of Whitefield Road from Hillfields ward, and lost parts of Broom Hill to Frome Vale ward.[17]
Residents
[edit]- Andrew Beer (1862-1954), artist and racing pigeon expert[18]
- Paul Potts, tenor, councillor for the ward from 1996 until 2003
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eastville (ward).
- ^ "Eastville Ward (as of 2022)". 2021 Census Area Profiles. nomis. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Factsheet – Eastville Park" (PDF). Avon Gardens Trust. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2004. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
- ^ "Eastville Park, Bristol, England". Parks & Gardens UK. 27 July 2007. 1208. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
- ^ Eaton, George (12 August 2020). "Ernest Bevin: The forgotten titan of Labourism". New Statesman.
- ^ Parkes, Pamela (14 December 2015). "'A dagger into the heart of Bristol'". Bristol 24/7. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ "Glenfrome Primary School". Gov.UK.
Address: Cottisford Road, Eastville, Bristol, BS5 6TY
- ^ "The Old Library, Eastville".
- ^ "Lockleaze Ward (as of 2022)". nomis.
- ^ Viaduct Demolished (Motion picture). British Pathe. 26 May 1968. 3311.14 / UN 4356 C. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ^ a b "Eastville And Stapleton Workhouses". Bristol Radical History Group. 10 February 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ "Bristol, Gloucestershire". The Workhouse. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- ^ "2021 Census Area Profile: Bristol". Office for National Statistics.
- ^ "Local councillors election 2024". Bristol City Council.
- ^ a b The County of Avon (District Wards) Order 1973
- ^ Bristol City Council. "Eastville ward map" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 August 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
- ^ "Bristol electoral review 1997-1998" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England.
- ^ "Bristol". Local Government Boundary Commission for England.
- ^ "Jack used to say his pigeons were his life". Exeter Express and Echo. 26 November 2011. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2015.