Shirehampton Sketches
Shirehampton Sketches
Shirehampton is a place of great and varied interest, both historical and modern. With its neighbour King’s Weston, it has been a Gloucestershire farming village, a retreat for Bristol gentry, a destination for tourists to see one of the best views in the country, an industrial suburb, a major military centre, a place of experiment with housing of many different sorts, a beautiful place to play golf, and, through being the place out of which Avonmouth was carved, one of the most important middle-sized ports and specialized industrial zones in England.
This book of 84 short chapters and three features deals with many different aspects of life and history in the Shire area, some well known, many tantalizingly hidden in plain sight, with much on historic local people, buildings and other features that you can see today when you visit.
Pages: 282
Full colour with illustrations
Softback
ISBN: 9781909446304
Size: 156mm x 234mm
About Richard Coates
Richard Coates has lived in Shirehampton since 2006, working as a researcher and teacher in language, place-names and surnames at the University of the West of England. He quickly became an enthusiast for the local history of northwest Bristol, and has published in print and on the web on many local topics. He is one of the editors of the Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain and Ireland and the author of Your city’s place-names: Bristol, published by the English Place-Name Society, and he has recently written a book about names and history in the Shirehampton area.
