Ashton Gate, Bristol

Ashton Gate
Ashton Gate
	Ashton Gate Location within Bristol
OS grid reference	ST572713
Unitary authority	Bristol;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BRISTOL
Postcode district	BS3
Dialling code	0117
Police	Avon and Somerset
Fire	Avon
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	Bristol South;
	List of places UK England Bristol 51°26′26″N 2°37′09″W / 51.4406°N 2.61905°W

Ashton Gate is a suburb of Bristol, United Kingdom, in the Southville ward of Bristol City Council. A toll house at the western end of North Street still survives and indicates the origin of the area's name as a gate on the road to Ashton (now known as Long Ashton). Once part of the estate of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, the area had ironworks and collieries in the nineteenth century, also a tobacco factory^[1] and a brewery. There is still some manufacturing industry and retail parks and in 2003 the Bristol Beer Factory recommenced brewing in the former brewery site.^[2] Ashton Gate railway station closed in 1964.

Major attractions in the area include Ashton Gate stadium, the home of professional sports teams Bristol City (football) the Bristol Bears (rugby union), the shopping and leisure facilities of North Street, the Tobacco Factory theatre. Ashton Gate primary school serves the local preteen population.^[3]

Whitemead House multi-storey council flats on Duckmoor Road, which overlook the Ashton Gate stadium, are notable for being the exterior filming location of the tower block where Delboy and Rodney lived in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses; these flats were used as their home's exterior after 1988.^[4]

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Notes

^ Cox, Howard (2000). The Global Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco, 1880-1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-19-829221-0.
^ "Bristol Beer Factory". bristolbeerfactory.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 May 2008. Retrieved 24 January 2009.
^ "Ashton Gate Primary School". www.ashtongate.bristol.sch.uk. Archived from the original on 27 February 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2009.
^ "Tour Only Fools and Horses' Bristol locations". BBC. Retrieved 22 March 2015.

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[1] Cox, Howard (2000). The Global Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco, 1880-1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-19-829221-0.

[2] "Bristol Beer Factory". bristolbeerfactory.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 May 2008. Retrieved 24 January 2009.

[3] "Ashton Gate Primary School". www.ashtongate.bristol.sch.uk. Archived from the original on 27 February 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2009.

[4] "Tour Only Fools and Horses' Bristol locations". BBC. Retrieved 22 March 2015.

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