Country: | England |
Official Name: | Leigh Woods |
Static Image Name: | File:St Mary the Virgin Church, Leigh Woods.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | The Church of St Mary the Virgin |
Coordinates: | 51.453°N -2.636°W |
Civil Parish: | Long Ashton |
Unitary England: | North Somerset |
Lieutenancy England: | Somerset |
Region: | South West England |
Constituency Westminster: | North Somerset |
Post Town: | BRISTOL |
Postcode District: | BS8 |
Postcode Area: | BS |
Dial Code: | 0117 |
Os Grid Reference: | ST560729 |
Leigh Woods is a village in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. It is just outside the boundary of the city and county of Bristol.
The village is located to the south of Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve. It is situated at the western end of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which opened in 1864, making the development of Leigh Woods as an upmarket residential area practicable.[1] Houses in varying styles were built from the mid-1860s until the First World War. Styles adopted included Italian, neo-Jacobean, Scottish baronial, Swiss chalet, Modern glass buildings, Domestic Revival and Arts and Crafts.[2]
The village is in the civil parish of Long Ashton, but in the ecclesiastical parish of Abbots Leigh with Leigh Woods. The church of St Mary the Virgin was designed by the architect John Medland and built in 1891.[3] [4]