Flooring in Bradley Stoke

Bradley Stoke is a town in South Gloucestershire, England, situated on the north side of the city of Bristol.^[2]

Bradley Stoke is Europe’s largest new town built with private investment. The town was planned in the 1970s and building began in 1987 and was named after the local Bradley Brook and Stoke Brook streams. Bradley Stoke is not far from the Severn Estuary of the Bristol Channel. The town Bradley Stoke is bordered by three motorways on three sides. The M5 to the north, the M4 to the east and the M32 to the south.

The Willow Brook Centre, Bradley Stoke’s town centre and shopping hub, attracts more than six million visitors every year. The town is predominantly residential but was planned on a self-standing basis with retail, leisure and commercial areas in the North, South and Central areas, and various business parks on the outskirts of the town.

Willowbrook Centre

History

The area that is now Bradley Stoke was once a farmland north of the village of Stoke Gifford near Bristol city.

The land was divided between the civil parishes of Stoke Gifford and Almondsbury. The area consisted of a number of farms, Bailey’s Court and Watch Elm Farm in the south, Bowsland Farm and Manor Farm in the north and Webb’s Farm in the middle. Some of the lands were used as pasture.

A number of woods also existed, Sherbourne’s Brake, Webb’s Wood and the large Savage’s Wood have all been preserved. Fiddlers Wood, the name of which lives on in Fiddlers Wood Lane was all but obliterated by the M4 Motorway. Baileys Court Farmhouse is the only original building that exists and was used as offices by the towns developers before becoming the Bailey’s Court Inn.

Watch Elm Farm was named after the Watch Elm, an elm of a legendary size that blew down in the mid 18th century. The Stoke Brook flows through the middle of Bradley Stoke.