Downend

They are now going from Downend, along Briddlesford Road, Whiterails and then Staplers to reach Furrlongs.

A significant number of students attending Winterbourne Academy, located in a village north of Bristol, hail from the city's northern outskirts, including areas such as Downend and Frenchay.

Moreover, there's a direct bus service from the city centre to Chipping Sodbury, passing through Fishponds, Downend, Coalpit Heath, and Yate.

Gordon Andrews, 71, of Coronation Road, Downend, Bristol, was fined £70, ordered to pay costs of £30 and had three points put on his licence, for speeding.

The man entered the Thomson shop on Downend Road and, producing a large blade, asked for the manager.

Development as a cricketer Henry Grace founded Mangotsfield Cricket Club in 1845 to represent several neighbouring villages including Downend.

Downend is near Mangotsfield and, although it is now a suburb of Bristol, it was then "a distinct village surrounded by countryside" and about four miles from Bristol.

Grace had to catch up with his studies at Bristol Medical School, and he and his wife and son lived at Downend until February 1875 with his mother, brother Fred and sister Fanny.

His first schooling was with a Miss Trotman in Downend village and then with a Mr Curtis of Winterbourne.

It was in the Downend orchard and as members of their local cricket clubs that he and his brothers developed their skills, mainly under the tutelage of his uncle, Alfred Pocock, who was an exceptional coach.