St George, Bristol

St George
St George
	Boundaries of St George West and East wards, shown within Bristol.
Population	11,348 (2001.Ward)(East); 10,929 (2001.Ward)(West)
OS grid reference	ST626734
Unitary authority	Bristol;
Ceremonial county	Bristol;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BRISTOL
Postcode district	BS5
Dialling code	0117
Police	Avon and Somerset
Fire	Avon
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	Bristol East;
	List of places UK England Bristol 51°27′31″N 2°32′19″W / 51.4586°N 2.5385°W

St George is a district of Bristol, England on the eastern edge of the city boundary.

St George was originally in Gloucestershire, outside the city boundary, and the terminus of the tram line from Bristol was in Beaconsfield Road. It became a civil parish as Bristol St George in 1866, and briefly an urban district from 1894 to 1898.^[3] On 1 April 1898 the parish was abolished and merged with Bristol.^[4] In 1891 the parish had a population of 36,718.^[5]

Troopers' Hill chimney is a local landmark. St George was a mining area from the early 19th century (coal and fireclay) until 1904 when the last fireclay mines were abandoned.^[6] Troopers Hill was declared as a Local Nature Reserve (LNR) on 22 June 1995.^[7]

John Armitstead, a colliery proprietor, had a pit between Church Road and Whitehall Road, where he installed a pumping engine for raising coal. Power was generated from water by means of a fire and the device was called a fire engine. It stood on land which came to be known as the Engine Ground; this is reflected in the name of a local public house, the Fire Engine.

The St George Fountain^[8] is a Victorian water fountain on the main Church Road which forks at this point to become Clouds Hill Road to Kingswood and Summerhill Road to Hanham.

St George, along with other east Bristol suburbs such as Hanham, Kingswood and Brislington, is currently unserved by rail. The nearest stations are Lawrence Hill and Stapleton Road.