14-574: Cheswick may refer to: Places [ edit ] Cheswick, Gloucestershire , England Cheswick, Northumberland , England Cheswick, Pennsylvania , United States People [ edit ] William Cheswick , computer security and networking researcher Charles Cheswick , a fictional character in the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest See also [ edit ] Chiswick (disambiguation) Keswick (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
28-721: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cheswick, Gloucestershire Cheswick ( / ˈ tʃ ɛ z ɪ k / ) is a new village bridging the South Gloucestershire and Bristol borders. It straddles the boundaries of Stoke Gifford , Filton and Lockleaze and lies close to the major employment sites of the University of the West of England (UWE), MoD Abbey Wood and Hewlett Packard . The development has three points of motor vehicular access: From Coldharbour Lane, just south of
42-620: The Galleries shopping centre , which is a three level covered street. In 2008, the shopping area was extended over the central ring road to produce a new shopping centre, Cabot Circus , which opened in September 2008. The City Docks were immediately south of the Centre. Although most ships used Avonmouth Docks after the Royal Edward Dock was opened in 1908, ocean-going ships were regularly seen at
56-487: The 1970s by archaeology suggesting that Bristol's origins lay to the east of High Street in the area that is now Castle Park , but more recent Saxon finds around Small Street favour the earlier view. This was Bristol's pre-war central shopping district, a knot of ancient narrow streets including Wine Street, Mary le Port Street and Castle Street, which was severely damaged in 1940 during the Bristol Blitz . The area to
70-727: The Centre until the 1960s. In 1972 the Royal Portbury Dock was opened, and the City Docks were closed. The harbour buildings, including the tobacco warehouses, became redundant. The harbourside has been regenerated in the 1990s and 2000s, with the refurbishment of warehouses as bars, restaurants, the Watershed Media Centre and the Arnolfini art gallery, as well as the creation of the At-Bristol science centre (later rebranded as We
84-590: The Romney Avenue bus and cycle only road via Lockleaze. The village is within walking distance of Filton Abbey Wood railway station and also has direct bus links to Bristol Parkway railway station . Bristol city centre Bristol city centre is the commercial, cultural and business centre of Bristol , England . It is the area north of the New Cut of the River Avon , bounded by Clifton Wood and Clifton to
98-845: The UWE East Entrance, and two bus and cycle only routes from the Abbey Wood Roundabout on the A4174 Avon Ring Road (the Cheswick Bus Link) and from Lockleaze (Romney Avenue). Construction started in 2008 and was expected to be completed in 2015 with a total of 1,100 houses. Prior to construction the land was part of Wallscourt Farm and Hewlett Packard. The houses have been constructed by Redrow Homes , Elan Homes and Taylor Wimpey and local housing associations Curo Group (previously known as Somer Housing Group), Solon Housing, Sovereign Housing and Affinity Sutton. The structure of
112-573: The council wards of Central, Hotwells & Harbourside, and part of Lawrence Hill. The mediaeval heart of the city was immediately north of Bristol Bridge , between the River Frome and the River Avon , at the Bristol High Cross where the four cross streets High Street , Wine Street , Broad Street and Corn Street meet. The traditional view that this was also the Saxon centre was challenged in
126-509: The historic area, around Broadmead, was redeveloped after the war despite overwhelming public opinion against it, and the streets and shops in Broadmead became the main shopping district of the city. Like many 1950s buildings in Britain, affordable but architecturally uninteresting utilitarian buildings form the bulk of the Broadmead area. In the 1980s, some of these were demolished to make way for
140-569: The north and west of Castle Park, around Broad Street, Corn Street and St Nicholas Market largely survived, and contains many historic buildings. The course of the River Frome, immediately to the west of the historic centre, was covered over in stages, in the second half of the 19th century. The area became the hub of the Bristol Tramways network, and was known as the Tramways Centre . It
154-597: The north-west, Kingsdown and Cotham to the north, and St Pauls , Lawrence Hill and St Phillip's Marsh to the east. The Bristol Royal Infirmary , Bristol Royal Hospital for Children , BBC Broadcasting House , the main campus of the University of Bristol , Bristol Crown Court and Magistrate's Courts, Temple Meads railway station , Bristol bus station , the Park Street , Broadmead and Cabot Circus shopping areas together with numerous music venues, theatres and restaurants are located in this area. The area consists of
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182-495: The village consists of a long central road called Long Down Avenue with a central square. Until 2023 it was part of Stoke Gifford parish, on 1 April 2023 it became part of Stoke Park and Cheswick . The Cheswick bus link opened on 17 September 2012; it was built to cut journey times to UWE by avoiding the Avon Ring Road and Coldharbour Lane, which often became congested. Buses also link Cheswick with Bristol city centre via
196-612: Was so called long after the last trams left in 1941, but is now known simply as The Centre . Between 1936 and 1938, the Centre was enlarged when more of the River Frome, between Broad Quay and St Augustine's Parade, was covered in, making way for the Inner Circuit Road . The western side of the Inner Circuit Road has since been largely decommissioned, and recent works have rebalanced The Centre in favour of pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users. The area northeast of
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