Abbots Leigh
Abbots Leigh is a small village just outside of Bristol along the A369 towards the M5 motorway. Abbots Leigh has about 797 residents.Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 797 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Somerset, England
- Also known as: “Abbots Leigh, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Clifton Suspension Bridge and Ashton Gate.
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Gothick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset.
Ashton Gate
Stadium
Photo: SGGH, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ashton Gate is a multi-use stadium in Ashton Gate, Bristol, England, and is the home of the Bristol Bears rugby team and the Bristol City football team. Ashton Gate is situated 2 miles southeast of Abbots Leigh.
SS Great Britain
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
SS Great Britain 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 Bristol and New York City. SS Great Britain is situated 2½ miles east of Abbots Leigh.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Long Ashton and Bristol.
Long Ashton
Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Long Ashton is a dormitory town 5 km south west of Bristol in Somerset, England. It is known for its bio science research centre Fenswood Farm, known by the locals as The Farm.
Bristol
Bristol is a city in the West Country of England. Famous for its maritime history it also offers a great and diverse range of attractions, hotels, bars and events.Clifton
Suburb
Photo: Rbrwr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Clifton is an inner suburb of Bristol, England, and the name of one of the city's thirty-five electoral wards. The Clifton ward also includes the areas of Cliftonwood and Hotwells.
Abbots Leigh
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.4608° or 51° 27′ 39″ northLongitude
-2.659° or 2° 39′ 32″ westPopulation
797Elevation
331 feet (101 metres)Open location code
9C3VF86R+89OpenStreetMap ID
node 31469977OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
11593080Wikidata ID
Q1933573
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Abbots Leigh” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Abbots Leigh”
- Bengali: “অ্যাবটস লেহ”
- Cebuano: “Abbots Leigh”
- Chinese: “Abbots Leigh”
- Chinese: “阿博特斯利”
- Dutch: “Abbots Leigh”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ابوتس ليغ”
- French: “Abbots Leigh”
- German: “Abbots Leigh”
- Gujarati: “એબોટ્સ લેઇઘ”
- Irish: “Abbots Leigh”
- Italian: “Abbots Leigh”
- Japanese: “アボッツ・リー”
- Kannada: “ಅಬ್ಬಟ್ಸ್ ಲೇಘ್”
- Korean: “아보츠 리”
- Ladin: “Abbots Leigh”
- Lithuanian: “Abots Leitas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Abbots Leigh”
- Persian: “اببتس لی”
- Polish: “Abbots Leigh”
- Portuguese: “Abbots Leigh”
- Russian: “Абботс-Ли”
- Spanish: “Abbots Leigh”
- Swedish: “Abbots Leigh”
- Tamil: “அபோட்ஸ் லெயி”
- Telugu: “అబ్బోట్స్ లెహ్”
- Turkish: “Abbots Leigh”
- Urdu: “ابوتس لیگھ”
- “Abbots Leigh”
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