24-576: Oldbury Court Estate is a park in Fishponds , Bristol, about 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of the city centre. It is a park of Bristol City Council , and is listed Grade II in English Heritage's Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest . Its area is 23.33 hectares (57.6 acres); the parkland contains woods and riverside wildlife. The paths along the River Frome form part of
48-607: A Baptist church Youth Club . The area is also served by Hillfields Library, run by Bristol City Council , and the Community centre and recreational grounds in Hillfields Park. Cossham Memorial Hospital , founded in 1907, is in the ward near Kingswood, South Gloucestershire . The following suburbs are in the same urban area, but lie in South Gloucestershire or North Somerset : This Bristol location article
72-691: A factory that is now part of the City Glass Company . Webers chocolates in Goodneston Road opened in 1914 and produced chocolates for 50 years, having had production lines alongside Oerlikon 20 mm cannons in World War II . Straker-Squire opened a large factory on Lodge Causeway in 1906, and was a major producer of early London Buses , with the factory in Fishponds supplying 70 per cent of them by 1909. It also produced trucks and successfully raced
96-513: A large boating lake with central wildlife reserves. Fishponds is mainly residential. Two main bus routes pass through. Housing is typically terraced Victorian. The high street shops include an international supermarket, Asian food store, charity shops, takeaways and Lidl , Aldi and Morrisons supermarkets. It has a small student population from the presence of the Glenside campus of the University of
120-549: A number of its car designs, including the 2.8-litre 15, dubbed 'PDQ' (Pretty Damn Quick), which in 1912 took the 15 hp (11 kW) flying mile record at Brooklands over 95 miles per hour (153 km/h). The firm moved to London in 1919. The aeronautics industry arrived in Fishponds in 1914 when Brazil Straker on Lodge Causeway began building Rolls-Royce aircraft engines for the RFC in World War I . Cosmos Engineering bought
144-518: Is currently not served by rail. The two nearest stations are Stapleton Road and Filton Abbey Wood . The reopening of the Henbury loop line will include reopening two railway stations in north Bristol: Henbury and North Filton. The latter will be a short distance west of Fishponds. Fishponds is within the city, county and unitary authority of Bristol. Most of it belongs to the Frome Vale council ward ,
168-532: Is still a fishpond called The Lido in Alcove Road. During the mid-to-late 19th century, Fishponds established a large manufacturing industry along Lodge Causeway and Filwood Road. Fishponds has been the site of several metal foundries , including George Adlam & Sons founded in the 1830s and Parnall & Sons , a foundry and scale works to manufacture of weights, measures and shop fittings. The company would later fit out ocean liner passenger compartments on
192-613: The England National Football Team against Austria at Wembley . More recently, the Briarwood School for students with severe learning difficulties from primary to sixth form has been built on Briar Way. The church in the centre of Hillfields is Hillfields Park Baptist Church , opened on 8 May 1929 and built by Foster & Son, and originally supported by the Fishponds Baptist Church. It also contains
216-645: The Frome Valley Walkway . There are picnic areas and a children's play park. The estate was mentioned in the Domesday book. In 1667, Robert Winstone purchased the house and land at Oldbury, previously in the Kemys family. He later bought the land on both sides of the River Frome. Thomas Graeme purchased the estate in 1799; the landscape gardener Humphry Repton advised on laying out the grounds. Graeme died in 1820, and
240-521: The New Moon (built 1850), Golden Lion (built 1883), Cross Keys now closed (built 1853), Cross Hands (built 1853), Old Tavern now closed (built 1899), Greyhound (built 1883), Spotted Cow (built 1883), Portcullis (built 1853), Warwick Arms (built 1906), and Oldbury Court (built 1957). Most are along the Fishponds Road running from Downend and Staple Hill in the north down towards Eastville in
264-652: The RMS Britannic in 1929 and the famous QE2 in the 1960s. The railway was built through Fishponds in 1835 and later included a shunting line for locomotives of the Avonside Locomotive Works to join the main line. Peckett and Sons also built locomotives at the Atlas Works towards Speedwell, whose engines joined the line at Clay Hill, until the firm closed in 1961. From 1894 Palmer Bros biscuit and cake manufacturers had two sites in Fishponds Road, including
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#1733093061079288-512: The Royal Forest of Kingswood . The forest was progressively reduced and developed over the centuries, with Fishponds first recorded as the "Newe Pooles" in 1610, and subsequently "Fish Ponds" by 1734. By the 17th century it was a thriving village with numerous stone-built cottages for miners and quarrymen for coal and pennant stone. The village grew up around the two pools formed from the old quarries, but both were filled in by 1839. However, there
312-853: The UK. There are 16 pubs in Fishponds, most of them dating from the Victorian era. Two are modern conversions; the Old Post Office , and the VanDyke , built as a 1200-seat cinema in 1926 but closed in 1973. The Star (built in 1853), was once the headquarters of Bristol Rovers football club when they played as the Black Arabs in the 1890s. Others include the Farriers Arms , now closed and boarded up (built 1872), Railway Tavern (built 1867), Fishponds Tavern , converted into two houses (built 1904), Full Moon , now
336-505: The West of England . The name Fishponds derives from when it was a quarry district, like nearby Soundwell . The empty quarries became large fishponds, which have since been filled in. One remained until the mid-1970s, when it was officially closed: a popular swimming area named "The Lido " by locals. It now belongs to an angling club. Fishponds is mainly served by First West of England buses 48/48A/49, 17, Y2 & Y5, with 5 and 6 & 7 serving
360-523: The city centre . It has two large Victorian-era parks: Eastville Park and Vassall's Park (once the Vassall Family estate, also known as Oldbury Court ). The River Frome runs through both with the Frome Valley Walkway alongside it. A restored mill found at Snuff Mills near the Vassall's Park end of the river has kept its original waterwheel, which can still be seen and heard turning. Eastville Park has
384-551: The company arranged for houses to be built at Maple Avenue to accommodate the new workers. The area expanded quickly, Hillfields Park Infant School opened in 1927 and the junior school opened in 1929. The most famous pupil to go to the junior school was Arthur Milton , who played County cricket for Gloucestershire County from 1948 to 1974, and gained 6 caps with the England cricket team . He also played football for Arsenal from 1951 to 1955, then Bristol City and gained 1 cap for
408-461: The estate passed to his sister Margaret, wife of Henry Vassall. In 1937, there being no male heir, Bristol Corporation bought Oldbury Court from the Vassall family, for use as a public park. The mansion house, built about 1600, was in poor condition and was later demolished. Fishponds Fishponds is a large suburb in the north-east of the English city of Bristol , about 3 miles (5 km) from
432-693: The firm and Roy Fedden designed the Cosmos Mercury engine before the company was forced into bankruptcy and then taken over by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1920. The site was later acquired by Parnall & Sons, which from 1941 produced aircraft components for a range of RAF aircraft, including wings for De Havilland Tiger Moths and fuselages for Short Stirling bombers. Post-war, Parnall & Sons continued manufacturing aircraft interiors and fuselages until about 1960. Today, Diamonite Aircraft Furnishings on Goodneston Road supplies some of
456-628: The outskirts of Fishponds developed since the First World War on the north side of Lodge Causeway . Building commenced on Hillfields Park Housing estate in 1919, and the estate was first to be built under the National Housing Scheme in Bristol. Hillfields was further expanded in 1922 when the new Elisha Smith Robinson paper and printing company opened in Filwood Road, Fishponds , and
480-453: The outskirts. Fishponds railway station opened in 1866 and closed in 1965. It included a shunting line for Fishponds-built locomotives of the Avonside Locomotive Works to join the main line. The Bristol & Bath Railway Path now runs down the old line, and can be accessed at several points in Fishponds. The Bristol Tramway operated from Old Market to Fishponds tram terminus from 1897 to 1941. The suburb, like most of eastern Bristol,
504-413: The south. [REDACTED] Media related to Fishponds at Wikimedia Commons The following suburbs are in the same urban area, but lie in South Gloucestershire or North Somerset : Chester Park, Bristol Hillfields is an area and ward of north-east Bristol . The Ward of Hillfields covers the following areas of Bristol : Hillfields itself is a relatively modern area of Bristol on
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#1733093061079528-565: The southern part to the Hillfields ward and the western part to the Eastville ward. The outskirts of Fishponds to the south comprise Chester Park and Mayfield Park . Fishponds is bordered by five suburbs: Downend , Staple Hill , St. George , Eastville and Stapleton . At the 2011 census the Greater Fishponds area had a population of 37,575. The area of Fishponds was once covered by
552-554: The world's best aircraft interiors, including one for the Russian President Vladimir Putin . Pountney & Co moved to Fishponds in 1905 and opened a large factory on Lodge Causeway. It had an entirely new labour-saving design and produced a range of domestic and luxury ceramics that were exported across the world. The Royal Cauldron name was acquired in 1962, but by then the factory was suffering from lack of investment and it became insolvent in 1971. The factory
576-893: Was later pulled down; the site is now occupied by the Lodge Causeway Trading Estate . E. S. & A. Robinson opened a large cardboard-box factory at Filwood Road in 1922. A subsidiary, Robinson's Waxed Paper Co. Ltd, built a new factory across the road in 1929. In World War II the company produced aircraft components for the Bristol Aeroplane Company. Robinson's merged to become the Dickinson Robinson Group in 1966 and finally closed, after further takeovers and mergers, in 1996. The two sites are now owned by Graphic Packaging and Zanetti & Company Ltd stone and marble masons, whose products and floors appear in airports, shops and railway stations throughout
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