Bradley Stoke is a new town in South Gloucestershire, England, situated on the north side of the city of Bristol. Named after the local Bradley Brook and Stoke Brook streams, the town was planned in the 1970s and building began in 1987. The town is predominantly residential with some retail and commercial areas.
The area that is now Bradley Stoke was low grade farmland north of the village of Stoke Gifford. The heavy clay of the land made it diff...
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Bradley Stoke is a new town in South Gloucestershire, England, situated on the north side of the city of Bristol. Named after the local Bradley Brook and Stoke Brook streams, the town was planned in the 1970s and building began in 1987. The town is predominantly residential with some retail and commercial areas.
The area that is now Bradley Stoke was low grade farmland north of the village of Stoke Gifford. The heavy clay of the land made it difficult to grow anything and so the land was mostly used as pasture. The land was divided between the parish's of Stoke Gifford and Almondsbury. The area consisted of a number of farms, Bailey's Court and Watch Elm Farm in the south, Bowsland Farm and Manor Farm in the north and Webb's Farm in the middle. A number of woods also existed, Sherbourne's Brake, Webb's Wood and the large Savage's Wood have all been preserved. Fiddlers Wood, the name of which lives on in Fiddlers Wood Lane was all but obliterated by the M4 Motorway. Baileys Court...
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