Description
Fishponds, an ecclesiastical parish in Gloucestershire, 3 miles NE of Bristol, and within the parliamentary borough "of that city. It has a station on the M.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Population, 6812. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Patron, the Vicar of Stapleton. The church waserected in 1820. There is also a mission church, Baptist, Primitive, and Free Methodist, and Christian Brethren chapels, and an almshouse. A Wesleyan chapel and schools wereerected in 1893. The Bristol workhouse and lunatic asylum, and the diocesan training institution for mistresses for national schools are situated here.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
