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Stapleton info
Stapleton is an area in the north-eastern
suburbs of the city of Bristol, England.
The ancient parish of Stapleton covered Fishponds
and Eastville and was originally within Kingswood
Forest. The Saxon hamlet of Stapleton, first documented
in 1208, stood at the edge of the forest, just
north of the River Frome. Finds of Roman coins
point to even earlier habitation. Even in the
18th century it was still heavily wooded.
The hamlet was donated to Tewkesbury Abbey in
1174 by William, Earl of Gloucester. By the late
16th century it was the property of the Berkeley
family of Stoke Gifford, and was passed down to
the Duke of Beaufort who retained the estate until
the early 20th century, selling it in 1917.
Coal was mined in the area, there being some
70 pits by 1700, and vast numbers of local men
were employed throughout the 18th century. In
the 1890s the mines produced a thousand tons per
day.
Stapleton was inclosureinclosed in 1781, Stapleton
Common being sold as 9 lots, mostly to the Duke
of Beaufort.
Frances Milton, the mother of Anthony Trollope
was born in the village in 1780, and Sarah Young,
the mother of Thomas Chatterton was also born
there.
The village grew steadily; in the 1871 census
there were 6,960 inhabitants and by 1901 that
had risen to 21,236.
In 1866 a cricket club was formed, its most famous
player being Dr. William Gilbert Grace who played
for Gloucestershire and England. At Purdown a
football team called the Black Arabs were to become
Bristol Rovers. (Purdown is reputedly haunted
by the ghost of a Duchess of Beaufort who was
struck by lightning.)
Also in the 19th century two lines of the Great
Western Railway were built through the area, meeting
at Stapleton Road railway station which was opened
on 8 September 1863. Tramways were also built,
horse drawn at first, but then electric - they
reached Fishponds in 1897.
Trinity Chapel was dedicated in 1821, being renamed
as St Mary’s Parish Church in 1869. Holy
Trinity Church is Norman and registers survive
from 1720. it was rebuilt in 1857 and has a 170
ft spire. The church of St Thomas the Apostle
in Eastville was consecrated in 1889 but is now
a Pentecostal hall.
About Bristol
Bristol is an English city and
county and one of the two administrative centres
of South West England (the other being Plymouth).
From its earliest days, its prosperity has been
linked to that of the Port of Bristol, the commercial
port which originated in the city centre, but
which has now migrated to the Bristol Channel
coast. Bristol extends to this coast and includes
Avonmouth, where much of the current port is located.
Notable areas in and surrounding the city include
Clifton, Filton and Patchway. (These last two
areas are outside the present city boundary, in
South Gloucestershire.)
Bristol is England's eighth, and the United Kingdom's
eleventh, most populous city. It had been, for
half a century, the second largest English city
after London,
until the rapid rise of Liverpool, Manchester
and Birmingham, in the 1780s.
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