Stoke Gifford

Stoke Gifford
St Michael's Church
Stoke Gifford is located in Gloucestershire
Stoke Gifford
Stoke Gifford
Location within Gloucestershire
Population19,794 (2021 Census, before parish boundary changes)[1]
OS grid referenceST621799
Civil parish
  • Stoke Gifford
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBRISTOL
Postcode districtBS34
Dialling code01454, 0117
PoliceAvon and Somerset
FireAvon
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Gloucestershire
51°31′01″N 2°32′53″W / 51.517°N 2.548°W / 51.517; -2.548
Stoke Park, Stoke Gifford, Glos., hypothetical view from the south-east, as painted by Johannes Kip in 1707. It then belonged to John Berkeley esquire, as stated by the caption above which displays the arms of Berkeley of Stoke Gifford. Published in Britannia Illustrata 1724 edition
Stoke Park in 2011, viewed from south, as visible from the northbound carriageway of the M32 motorway which now cuts across the former parkland. Now known as "The Dower House" and split into private apartments. An engraving of Stoke Park was published in Copperplate Magazine in 1796[2]

Stoke Gifford is a neighbourhood and parish and electoral ward in South Gloucestershire, England. Formerly a separate village, it is now a suburb in the Bristol built-up area, part of the city's North Fringe.[3] The ward had 14,200 residents in 5,788 households at the 2021 Census.[4]

It is served by Bristol Parkway railway station and is home to Stoke Gifford depot, on the London-South Wales railway line. To the south, it is served by the Bristol Ring Road.

Several major employers and office parks are located in Stoke Gifford, including the Bristol offices of Aviva which took over Friends Life in 2015.[5] The Stoke Gifford area is also home to the main campus of the University of the West of England, and offices of Hewlett-Packard and MOD Abbey Wood, although since 2023 parish boundary changes these are now in the Stoke Park and Cheswick parish.[6]

The parish includes the neighbourhoods of Little Stoke and Harry Stoke. It borders Filton, to the south-west, Patchway to the north west, Bradley Stoke to the north, Winterbourne and Hambrook to the east, and Cheswick to the south.[5]

  1. ^ "Stoke Gifford". City population. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  2. ^ by John WALKER, engraver and printseller, 16, Rosomon Street, Clerkenwell 1795–1802. Exhibited Royal Academy 1796–1800. Landscape engraver and draughtsman. He finished many of his father's plates. Published as"The Copper Plate Magazine, or Monthly Cabinet of Picturesque Prints" many drawn earlier but published 1792..1803 Engraved surface 13 x 17 cm . . .2nd state by Published 1 July 1795 by J. Walker, Rosomans Street, London
  3. ^ "South Gloucestershire Suburban Continuation Study". Nash Partnership.
  4. ^ https://beta.southglos.gov.uk/static/1a7a43ba07bc2e704efdb9edadf60bc4/Stoke-Gifford-ward-1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  5. ^ a b "Home". Stokegifford.org.uk. Archived from the original on 28 February 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  6. ^ "The South Gloucestershire (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2023" (PDF). South Gloucestershire Council. Retrieved 16 November 2023.