The Frenchay Connection: The Village

• the village itself;
  • Location
    Frenchay has moved again! Originally located in the county of Gloucestershire, Frenchay's part of the county was absorbed into the new county of Avon on 1 April 1974. However, on 1 April 1996, we went back into the new Unitary Authority of South Gloucestershire, which is made up from the Northavon and Kingswood Districts of the former Avon county.
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• the buildings and institutions;
  • We have Anglican and Roman Catholic churches, a Unitarian chapel and a Friends meeting house! There was a Methodist chapel too, built on land donated by the Quakers, but it was abandoned and is now tastefully converted into a house. We have one pub, The White Lion, but the village shop and the Post Office closed some years ago. Many of the buildings date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and are officially Listed. The village hall was designed by Sir George Oatley (who was also responsible for the Wills Memorial Building [hope to get a picture] at Bristol University) on land donated by Francis Fox Tuckett, and was paid for by public subscription. The present village school (Frenchay Church of England School) dates from 1842 and currently has about 100 pupils, drawn from Frenchay itself and the surrounding area.
• the local environment;
  • The river Frome and its gorge and the quarries
  • Frenchay Moor, owned by the National Trust
  • Frenchay Common
  • Beck's Pool and the hidden lakes and other pools
• local history
  • Old Industries
  • The Frenchay Tuckett Society
• The Village Today

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