England
North Somerset
Long Ashton

Leigh Woods

Leigh Woods is a village in the district of , England. It is just outside the boundary of the city and county of . The village is located to the south of Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: village in Somerset, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve” and “Leigh Woods, Somerset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Clifton Suspension Bridge and Stokeleigh Camp.

Bridge
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The is a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking in to Leigh Woods in .

Archaeological site
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is an Iron Age promontory fort in Leigh Woods near , England. The hill fort is one of three Iron Age fortifications overlooking the Avon Gorge, the others being Burgh Walls Camp south of the Nightingale Valley, of which almost no trace remains, and the other being Clifton Down Camp on the opposite side of the gorge, on near the Observatory.

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is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. The largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1853, she was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between and New York City.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hotwells and Clifton.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the English port city of . It is located to the south of and below the high ground of , and directly to the north of the .

Suburb
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is an inner suburb of , England, and the name of one of the city's thirty-five electoral wards. The ward also includes the areas of Cliftonwood and .

Neighborhood
is a neighbourhood in south west on the western boundary with , lying within the ward, approximately two miles from the city centre. estate, a 850-acre recreational area owned by Bristol City Council lies just to the north, the Long Ashton by-pass to the south and the River Avon to the east.

Leigh Woods

Latitude
51.45343° or 51° 27′ 12″ north
Longitude
-2.63507° or 2° 38′ 6″ west
Elevation
367 feet (112 metres)
Open location code
9C3VF937+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7474914813
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
8063561
Wiki­data ID
Q14955685
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Swedish—“Leigh Woods” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Leigh Woods, Somerset”
  • French: “Leigh Woods”
  • German: “Leigh Woods”
  • Irish: “Leigh Woods”
  • Japanese: “リー・ウッズ (サマセット)”
  • Polish: “Leigh Woods”
  • Spanish: “Leigh Woods”
  • Swedish: “Leigh Woods”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Leigh Woods”. Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.