Map sources for Bishopston at grid reference ST586755

Bishopston is an inner-suburb in north Bristol, England, situated on the Gloucester Road, the main northern arterial road in the city. It is in the Bristol West constituency and elects two City Councillors. It is twinned with KV Kuppam in Kerala, India Download high resolution version (1802x2589, 189 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Bishopston, Bristol Horfield Ashley Down, Bristol Henleaze Categories: GFDL images | GBdot ... Download high resolution version (1802x2589, 189 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Bishopston, Bristol Horfield Ashley Down, Bristol Henleaze Categories: GFDL images | GBdot ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... Bristol is a unitary authority with city and ceremonial county status in South West England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK... Gloucester (pronounced ) is a city and district in south-west England, close to the Welsh border. ... Creation 1885 MP Stephen Williams Party Liberal Democrat Type House of Commons County Bristol EP constituency South West England Bristol West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Kerala (IPA: ; Malayalam: കേരളം — Keralam) is a state on the southwestern tropical Malabar Coast of India. ...

Named after the bishop of the local diocese who controversially sold off the church's land to private developers in the early 1800s. 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. In the Census 2001 Bishopston registered a resident population of 11,996. The district is part of the Bristol built-up area, having been swallowed by the growing city, running directly into the surrounding districts of Redland, Ashley Down, Horfield and Henleaze. Pope Pius XI blesses Bishop Stephen Alencastre as fifth Apostolic Vicar of the Hawaiian Islands in a Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace window. ... British House of Commons Canadian House of Commons In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... A nationwide census was conducted in England and Wales on March 31, 1901 and was put on line in 2003 containing records for 32 million people and 6 million houses. ... Census 2001 is the name by which the national census conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 29 April 2001 is known. ... Redland and Kingsdown at dawn Redland is an affluent inner suburb and parish in Bristol, England. ... Map sources for Ashley Down at grid reference ST598755 Ashley Down is a small area of Bristol sandwiched between Bishopston, Horfield and St Werburghs. ... Horfield is a town in south-west England and a suburb of Bristol. ... Map sources for Henleaze at grid reference ST584770 Henleaze is a suburb of the city of Bristol in the southwest of England. ...

The area has a relatively large student population, with 21% of the over 16 population in education compared to 8.4% in Bristol and 5.1% in England and Wales. Some of the location filming for the cult BBC sitcom The Young Ones was done there. For an explanation of often confusing terms such as Great Britain, Britain, United Kingdom and England, see British Isles (terminology). ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... The Young Ones; Left to right: Jerzei Balowski (Alexei Sayle), Neil (Nigel Planer), Rick (Rik Mayall), Mike (Christopher Ryan) & Vyvyan (Adrian Edmondson) The Young Ones was a British sitcom about four male students sharing a house. ...

Bishopston was the home of two Nobel Prize winning physicists. In 1933 Paul Dirac, who attended the Bishop Road Primary School just a few hundred metres from where he lived on Monk Road, won the prize after his contributions to quantum mechanics. In 1950 Cecil Frank Powell won the prestigious award for contributions to Physics. Specifically, for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method. Bishopston is also home to television presenter Adam Hart-Davis and psychologist Susan Blackmore. Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM (IPA: [dɪræk]) (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum physics. ... A simple introduction to this subject is provided in Basics of quantum mechanics. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cecil Frank Powell (December 5, 1903 - August 9, 1969) was a British physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1950 for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a heavy subatomic particle. ... Dr. Adam John Hart-Davis (born July 4, 1943) is a British author, photographer, and broadcaster, well-known in the UK for presenting the television series Local Heroes and What the Romans Did for Us, the latter spawning several spin-off series involving the Victorians, the Tudors, and the Stuarts. ... Susan Blackmore Dr. Susan Jane Blackmore (born 1949) is a British freelance writer, lecturer, and broadcaster, perhaps best known for her book The Meme Machine. ...

Although the famous film star Cary Grant (real name Archibald Alexander Leach), spent his childhood in neighbouring Horfield, he attended Bishop Road School. Cary Grant Archibald Alec Leach, known by his screen name Cary Grant, (January 18, 1904 - November 29, 1986), was a British actor who starred in films. ...

The main artery, Gloucester Road is well known for its pubs and restaurants. An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada...

External links

• Census data
• Bristol Buddhist Centre meeting in Gloucester Road, Bishopston
• Bishopston Trading A fair trade workers cooperative.
• Bristol Vineyard Church, but not as you know it...