Bristol

Is Hartcliffe Bristol Rough?

Severe deprivation. Around 11,000 people live in Hartcliffe, which sprang up as a council estate in the 1950s and has long been a deprived area. According to the Government’s deprivation map, Bristol’s most deprived neighbourhood is the middle-stretch of residential road Bishport Avenue and its side-streets. What is the poorest area in Bristol? Easton is …

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Was Bristol A Roman Town?

It must be recalled, however, that Bristol itself had never been a Roman town, having been founded a half millennium or more after the precipitate departure to Rome of Britain’s administrative hierarchy in the early fifth century A.D., following successive heavy military withdrawals over the previous three decades. Did Romans live in Bristol? The major …

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Is Bristol The Smallest County In England?

By area, the largest ceremonial county consisting of a single-district non-metropolitan county is Northumberland and the smallest is Bristol. By population the largest such county is Bristol and the smallest is Rutland. Which is the smallest county in England? Rutland, unitary authority and historic county in the East Midlands of England. Rutland, wedged between Leicestershire, …

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