Downend, South Gloucestershire
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Downend is an affluent residential suburb of Greater Bristol, England, the housing stock is typically terraced Victorian, 1930s and 1950s semi-detached and detached. It is in the South Gloucestershire local district, located to the northeast of Bristol and bordered by the Bristol City suburb of Fishponds, and the South Gloucestershire suburbs of Staple Hill, Frenchay, Mangotsfield, and Emersons Green.
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The old vicarage, typical late-19th-century architecture of Downend | |
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Population | 12,716 (2021) |
OS grid reference | ST650774 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | BRISTOL |
Postcode district | BS16 |
Dialling code | 0117 |
Police | Avon and Somerset |
Fire | Avon |
Ambulance | South Western |
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On 19 January 2020 The Sunday Times ran an article which named Downend as one of the UK's best suburbs.[1]
Downend forms, with the suburb of Bromley Heath, the civil parish of Downend and Bromley Heath, created in 2003.[2]