Milbury Heath is a hamlet in
South Gloucestershire
South Gloucestershire is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, South West England. Towns in the area include Yate, Chipping Sodbury, Kingswood, Thornbury, Filton, Patchway and Bradley Stoke. The southern p ...
, England, located east of
Thornbury. The hamlet has a
garden centre
A garden centre (American English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail business that primarily sells plants and related products for Home gardening, domestic gardening. Gardening centers usually revolve around outdoor home imp ...
and a few other farm shops. The heath is a local high point (109 m above sea level at ) and offers views west across the
Severn
The River Severn (, ), at long, is the longest river in Great Britain. It is also the river with the most voluminous flow of water by far in all of England and Wales, with an average flow rate of at Apperley, Gloucestershire. It rises in t ...
Vale, and north into the
Vale of Berkeley. A seat at the viewpoint commemorates the centenary of
Falfield
Falfield is a village and a civil parish in the Charfield Ward at the northern border of South Gloucestershire, situated on the A38 Gloucester Road, immediately west of junction 14 of the M5 motorway. In Norman times it was part of the hist ...
Parish Council in 1994. The hamlet has a former (Methodist?) chapel now converted to a private house, and a duck-pond.
The hamlet is on the
Avon Cycleway. Both the
A38 road
The A38, parts of which are known as Devon Expressway, Bristol Road and Gloucester Road, Bristol, Gloucester Road, is a major A-class trunk road in England.
The road runs from Bodmin in Cornwall to Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. It is long, mak ...
and
M5 motorway
The M5 is a motorway in England linking the Midlands with the South West England, South West. It runs from junction 8 of the M6 motorway, M6 at West Bromwich near Birmingham to Exeter in Devon. Heading south-west, the M5 runs east of West Brom ...
pass nearby. Just to the north on the A38, (technically in Buckover), is the White Horse pub.
Robin killing controversy
The garden centre at Milbury Heath has come under fire due to the treatment of
robins who were nesting there and were sometimes flying in the cafeteria section. They were killed after getting permission from
DEFRA. This sparked controversy among many groups, including the
RSPCA. The garden centre defended the killings by claiming they were "a pest" and a "health hazard".
External links
RSPCA questions killing of robins(BBC News)
Villages in South Gloucestershire District
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