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Eastville, Bristol

Area of Bristol, England

Field	Value
country	England
official_name	Eastville
coordinates
static_image_name	File:Eastville Park, south-west.jpg
static_image_caption	Eastville Park
population	14,865
population_ref	(ward)
population_density	4,175.7 per km2 (ward)
statistic_title	Households
statistic	6,099 (ward)
unitary_england	Bristol
lieutenancy_england	Bristol
region	South West England
constituency_westminster	Bristol North East
councillor1	Lorraine Francis
party1	Green
councillor2	Ed Fraser
party2	Green
post_town	BRISTOL
postcode_district	BS5
postcode_area	BS
dial_code	0117
os_grid_reference	ST613752

Eastville is an inner suburban neighbourhood and an electoral ward in Bristol, England, located around 2 mile 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. The lake at Eastville Park was constructed as an unemployment relief scheme following a campaign by Ernest Bevin.

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.

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

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 and the Old Eastville Library on Muller Road, are in Lockleaze electoral ward rather than Eastville electoral ward.

History

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. This was part of the Clifton Extension Railway.

The Eastville Workhouse, originally the Barton Regis Union Workhouse, was a former French Prison which was bought from the Government circa 1832. In 1930, the Stapleton Workhouse, originally the Bristol Union Workhouse, 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

Main article: Bristol City Council elections

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.

The ward is represented by two members of Bristol City Council, which 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. and again in 2016, when Eastville gained parts of Whitefield Road from Hillfields ward, and lost parts of Broom Hill to Frome Vale ward.

Residents

Andrew Beer (1862–1954), artist and racing pigeon expert
Paul Potts, tenor, councillor for the ward from 1996 until 2003

References

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"Factsheet – Eastville Park". Avon Gardens Trust.
(27 July 2007). "Eastville Park, Bristol, England". Parks & Gardens UK.
(12 August 2020). "Ernest Bevin: The forgotten titan of Labourism". New Statesman.
(14 December 2015). "A dagger into the heart of Bristol". Bristol 24/7.
"Glenfrome Primary School". Gov.UK.
"The Old Library, Eastville".
"Lockleaze Ward (as of 2022)". nomis.
(26 May 1968). "Viaduct Demolished". British Pathe.
(10 February 2015). "Eastville And Stapleton Workhouses". Bristol Radical History Group.
"Bristol, Gloucestershire". The Workhouse.
"2021 Census Area Profile: Bristol". Office for National Statistics.
"Local councillors election 2024". Bristol City Council.
Bristol City Council. "Eastville ward map".
The County of Avon (District Wards) Order 1973
"Bristol electoral review 1997-1998".
"Bristol". Local Government Boundary Commission for England.
(26 November 2011). "Jack used to say his pigeons were his life". Exeter Express and Echo.

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