Towns & cities · West Midlands
Falfield
Falfield — a village located in South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 3 h–6 h
- Nearest railway station
- Lydney · 9.9 km
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
About
Falfield is a town, city, village or settlement in the United Kingdom. Recent population estimates put it at around 611 people. Address: GL12. Wikidata describes it as: "a village located in South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom". Coordinates: 51.6370°, -2.4590°.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Severn Estuary SSSI
- Ramsar wetland: Severn Estuary
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Falfield is a village and civil parish in the Charfield ward of South Gloucestershire, near the boundary with Stroud District, and within the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire. The village is situated on the A38 Gloucester Road, immediately west of junction 14 of the M5 motorway. In Norman times, it formed part of the historical Bagstone Hundred of Gloucestershire and later the Thornbury Hundred.
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Background
History
Although Falfield is not named in the Domesday Book, the surrounding parishes of Charfield, Tortworth and Tytherington were all part of the Bagstone Hundred; a few were later transferred to the Thornbury Hundred. Falfield was part of the Lower Thornbury Hundred in 1832. Falfield appears on maps going back to 1577, upon which it appears as Fayleffeld, and clearly in the Thornbury Hundred on a map from 1644 with the same spelling. In 1608 a document, Men & Armour, compiled by John Smyth (1567–1641), steward of the Gloucestershire lands of Lord Berkeley, recorded that the majority of the men in the village were weavers and others were husbandmen (farmers) or tailors. The land around Eastwood…
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- Coordinates
- 51.6370, -2.4590
- District
- South Gloucestershire
- Parish
- Falfield
- Postcode
- GL12
- Parliamentary constituency
- Thornbury and Yate
- Population
- 611
- Nearest railway station
- Lydney — 9.9 km
- Official site
- neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q599688 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Falfield (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Falfield War Memorial and St George's Church - geograph.org.uk - 1970122.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Falfield?
- Falfield is in the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode GL12), in the parish of Falfield.
- Is Falfield a protected site?
- Yes — Falfield is part of the Severn Estuary SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Severn Estuary Ramsar wetland.
- Is Falfield free to visit?
- Yes, Falfield is free to enter.
- How do I get to Falfield?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode GL12. It sits within the Thornbury and Yate parliamentary constituency.