Ashley Down is a Village in the county of Bristol.

Ashley Down postcode: BS7 9EX

Retail in Ashley Down

There are great places to visit near Ashley Down including some great cities, country parks, shopping centres, historic buildings, ruins, parks, hills, woodlands, bluebell woods and castles.

City of Bristol is a great place to visit close to Ashley Down if you like cities.

Country Parks to visit near Ashley Down include Blaise Castle Estate, Ashton Court, and Leigh Woods.

There are a several good shopping centres in the Ashley Down area like Cabot Circus, and The Mall at Cribbs Causeway.

Victoria Rooms, Temple Church - Bristol, Clifton Observatory, Ashton Court, Brunel's SS Great Britain, Bristol Museum, and Clifton Suspension Bridge are some of Ashley Down best historic buildings to visit near Ashley Down.

There are a several good ruins in the area around Ashley Down like Temple Church - Bristol.

Ashley Down's best nearby parks can be found at Ashton Court, Brandon Hill, and Leigh Woods.

There are a several good hills in the area around Ashley Down like Brandon Hill.

Leigh Woods is a great place to visit close to Ashley Down if you like woodlands.

Ashley Down is near some unmissable bluebell woods like Leigh Woods,

Places near Ashley Down feature a number of interesting castles including Blaise Castle.

Ashley Down History

There are some historic monuments around Ashley Down:

• Underfall Yard, Bristol Docks
• Churchyard cross in St Mary and St Peter's churchyard
• Maes Knoll camp
• Ruin of St Helen's Church, Rudgeway
• Roman Settlement at Keynsham Hams, former Cadbury's Factory
• Bowl barrow in Bowness Gardens 315m north west of the swimming lake
• Part of the linear boundary known as the Wansdyke 375m south east of Knowle Farm
• Druid Stoke burial chamber, Stoke Bishop
• Civil War defences on Brandon Hill
• Part of a Roman road on Durdham Down 865m north east of Black Rocks
• Queen Charlton village cross
• Bristol Castle vaulted chambers
• Stokeleigh Camp: a promontory fort in Leigh Woods
• Part of the Roman Settlement of Abonae
• Part of a minor Romano-British villa at Long Cross
• Clifton Down camp, Clifton
• Wansdyke: section E of Maes Knoll camp
• Section of City Wall, King Street
• Bet tohorah at Jacob's Wells Road
• Medieval vaults N of St Peter's Church
• Part of Bristol city wall 185m west of Bristol Bridge
• Temple Church
• Roman settlement, part of an associated field system and earlier Iron Age settlement remains at Gatcombe Farm
• King's Weston Hill camp, Henbury
• Churchyard cross in St Michael's churchyard
• Chewton Keynsham packhorse bridge
• Bury Hill camp, Moorend
• Dominican Friars (Quaker's Friars)
• Fairbairn Crane, Bristol Harbour
• Second World War heavy anti-aircraft battery 590m north east of Highwood House, Pur Down, Bristol
• The Abbey
• Vault in High Street
• Deserted medieval farmstead NE of Northwick
• Chapel at Lower Court
• Compton Dando Bridge
• The Mere Bank and flanking ditches
• Blaise Castle, Iron Age hillfort, Roman and medieval remains, and post-medieval garden
• Moated site 725m north east of Mount Pleasant Farm
• Hermitage in Quaker burial ground near St Mary Redcliffe
• Deserted medieval farmstead and part of a Romano-British field system 400m north of Fenswood Farm
• St Mary-le-Port Church
• Part of the linear boundary known as the Wansdyke 425m south of New Barn Farm
• Part of the linear boundary known as the Wansdyke 210m north west of Cottles