Kingsweston or Kings Weston is a

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an neighbourhood in the city of

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, England. It is located in the northwest of the city, in the Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston electoral ward and the

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parliamentary constituency. The neighbourhood consists of a cluster of estate buildings and other houses on

Kingsweston Hill Kings Weston Hill () is a hill in the north of Bristol, England. It forms a ridge about long, extending from Henbury to Shirehampton and separating Lawrence Weston to the north from Coombe Dingle to the south. The hill is a public open spa ...

, adjacent to

Kings Weston House Kings Weston House () is a historic building in Kings Weston Lane, Kingsweston, Bristol, England. Built during the early 18th century, it was remodelled several times, most recently in the mid-19th century. The building was owned by several ge ...

. The neighbourhood has a small village character, being separated from the surrounding built-up area by parkland remnants of the Kings Weston House estate. Kingsweston was also the name of one of Bristol's

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from 1980 to 2016, covering an area including Kingsweston itself and several neighbouring suburbs.

History

Kings Weston, or Weston Regis, was originally a hamlet (or

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) in the parish of Henbury, to the west of Lawrence Weston, subsumed into Lawrence Weston when the estate was built in the 1940s. It is the location of

. The village also gave its name to Kingsweston Hill and Kings Weston Lane, the main road between Lawrence Weston and Shirehampton. There is a

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at Kings Weston.

Electoral ward

Kingsweston was created as an electoral ward in 1980, initially electing one member to

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and two members to

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. The ward was abolished following a Local Government Boundary Commission review in 2015, with much of the area moving into the new Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston ward, and some joining

Stoke Bishop Stoke Bishop is a suburb in the north-west of Bristol, England. Bordered by The Downs and the River Trym, it is located between Westbury-on-Trym, Sneyd Park and Sea Mills. Although relatively low, Stoke Bishop's population has significantly i ...

ward. In addition to Kingsweston itself, the ward contained some or all parts of the neighbourhoods of Coombe Dingle, Lawrence Weston and Sea Mills. At the 2001 Census there were 10,844 people living in Kingsweston ward, over 95% of whom were white.Kingsweston
Before 2016, Bristol City Council used a system of elections by thirds, in which councillors sat for four year terms but elections took place in three out of every four years, with roughly one third of seats up for election at any one time. Kingsweston ward therefore elected one of its two councillors at a time, in elections taking place two years in every four.

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Sea Mills history
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History

Electoral ward

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