Alveston
Alveston is a village, civil parish and former royal manor in South Gloucestershire, England, inhabited in 2014 by about 3,000 people. The village lies 1 mile south of Thornbury and 10 miles north of Bristol.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,660 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Alveston, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ship Inn and Marlwood School.
Marlwood School
School
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marlwood School is a state-funded co-educational secondary school currently part of the CSET multi-academy trust. Located at Alveston, South Gloucestershire, it is situated on the B3561 on the outskirts of the south-west of the village.
Thornbury Castle
Hotel
Thornbury Castle is a Tudor castle in the town of Thornbury, in Gloucestershire, England, erected next to the parish church of St Mary. Construction was begun in 1511 as a further residence for Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, of Stafford Castle in Staffordshire. Thornbury Castle is situated 1½ miles north of Alveston.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rudgeway and Old Down.
Rudgeway
Village
Photo: William Avery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rudgeway is a village in South Gloucestershire in south west England, located between Alveston and Almondsbury on the A38 trunk road. It lies west of Earthcott, Latteridge, Iron Acton and Yate on the B4059 road.
Old Down
Village
Old Down is a hamlet in South Gloucestershire, near the larger villages of Olveston and Tockington and a mile west of Alveston. A tourist attraction called Old Down Country Park now occupies the country house in the village, and there is also a pub, The Fox, as well as several sporting facilities.
Thornbury
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thornbury is one of the most interesting market towns in South Gloucestershire, known for historic tales of treason, murders and for its modern day array of independent shops.
Alveston
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Alveston, South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.58953° or 51° 35′ 22″ northLongitude
-2.5321° or 2° 31′ 56″ westPopulation
2,660Elevation
305 feet (93 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ALVOpen location code
9C3VHFQ9+R5OpenStreetMap ID
node 4378187053OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Alveston” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Alveston”
- Bengali: “এল্ভেস্টোন”
- Bulgarian: “Алвестон”
- Cebuano: “Alveston”
- Chinese: “阿文斯頓”
- Chinese: “阿文斯顿”
- Dutch: “Alveston”
- French: “Alveston”
- German: “Alveston”
- Gujarati: “અલવેસ્ટન”
- Irish: “Alveston”
- Japanese: “アルベストン”
- Kannada: “ಅಲ್ವೆಸ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “알베스턴”
- Ladin: “Alveston”
- Lithuanian: “Alvestonas”
- Polish: “Alveston”
- Portuguese: “Alveston”
- Russian: “Алвестон”
- Spanish: “Alveston”
- Swedish: “Alveston”
- Tamil: “அல்வெஸ்டன்”
- Telugu: “ఆల్వేస్టన్”
- Turkish: “Alveston”
- Urdu: “الویسٹن”
- “Alveston”
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