Oasis Academy Brightstowe

Oasis Academy Brightstowe is a secondary school with academy status in Bristol, England. It opened in September 2008 in the buildings of the former Portway Community School.

Type: School
Description: school in Bristol, UK
Also known as: “Portway Community School”
Address: Penpole Lane, Shirehampton, Bristol, BS11 0EB

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Shirehampton Methodist Church and Kings Weston Roman Villa.

Shirehampton Methodist Church

Church

Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Shirehampton Methodist Church is situated 1,000 feet southwest of Oasis Academy Brightstowe.

Kings Weston Roman Villa

Museum

Photo: Michael Murray, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kings Weston Roman Villa is located in Lawrence Weston in the north-west of Bristol. Discovered in 1947 during the construction of the post-war housing estate, the site consists of two distinct buildings: a fully excavated eastern building and a partially explored western building located beneath the modern Long Cross road. Kings Weston Roman Villa is situated 1,600 feet north of Oasis Academy Brightstowe.

St Bernard’s Catholic Church

Church

Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Bernard’s Catholic Church is situated 1,700 feet southwest of Oasis Academy Brightstowe.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shirehampton and Lawrence Weston.

Shirehampton

Suburb

Photo: Linda Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Shirehampton is a district of Bristol in England, near Avonmouth, at the northwestern edge of the city. It originated as a separate village, retains a High Street with a parish church and shops, and is still thought of as a village by many of its 6,867 inhabitants.

Lawrence Weston

Suburb

Lawrence Weston is a post-war housing estate in northwest Bristol, England, between Henbury and Shirehampton. The estate is bounded in the east by the Blaise Castle estate and woods.

Pill

Village

Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Pill is a village in North Somerset, England, situated on the southern bank of the Avon, about 4 miles north-west of Bristol city centre. The village is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Pill and Easton-in-Gordano.