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528: 47: 31: 54: 488:, 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 457:, 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. 235: 464:
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
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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. This was part of the
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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.
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Eastville ward was created in 1974, electing three members to Bristol City Council and one member to
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flows roughly south-southwest through the neighbourhood, and has been closely shadowed by the
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As an informally defined neighbourhood, originating as a hamlet within the parish of
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ward, and again in 2016, when Eastville gained parts of Whitefield Road from
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On the west bank of the Frome is Eastgate shopping centre, home to a large
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in 1996. Boundaries were further adjusted in 1999, when parts of
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The following suburbs are in the same urban area, but lie in
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Address: Cottisford Road, Eastville, Bristol, BS5 6TY
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electoral ward rather than Eastville electoral ward.
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Eastville is located in Bristol
Bristol
Density
OS grid reference
ST613752
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Bristol
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Bristol
Region
South West
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England
Sovereign state
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BS5
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Avon and Somerset
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Avon
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Bristol North East
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