Barrs Court
Encyclopedia
Barrs Court is a suburb on the east side of Bristol
(UK
), located near Longwell Green
and Kingswood.
Barrs Court is a new housing estate
, but has some previous history surrounding its local moat
, a 2 acres (8,093.7 m²) site designated as an ancient monument
.
Barrs Court has one school (Barrs Court Primary), a large Asda Hypermarket and a leisure area called Aspects with a multiplex Vue cinema, Bowlplex centre, gym, four restaurants and two pubs. All these businesses claim to be in the better known, and larger, Longwell Green, but all are geographically Barrs Court.
One corner of the moat is now in-filled. Following the demolition of the mansion a farmhouse was developed from what was originally the outbuildings of the original mansion house. One of these original outbuildings, the large cruciform barn, was converted in the late 1980s into a public house.
There are a number of fine monuments in Bristol Cathedral
to the Newton family.
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
(UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
), located near Longwell Green
Longwell Green
Longwell Green is a suburb just outside the east fringe of Bristol. It is located within the traditional county of Gloucestershire and the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire...
and Kingswood.
Barrs Court is a new housing estate
Estate (house)
An estate comprises the houses and outbuildings and supporting farmland and woods that surround the gardens and grounds of a very large property, such as a country house or mansion. It is the modern term for a manor, but lacks the latter's now abolished jurisdictional authority...
, but has some previous history surrounding its local moat
Moat
A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that surrounds a castle, other building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence. In some places moats evolved into more extensive water defences, including natural or artificial lakes, dams and sluices...
, a 2 acres (8,093.7 m²) site designated as an ancient monument
Monument
A monument is a type of structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, or simply as an example of historic architecture...
.
Barrs Court has one school (Barrs Court Primary), a large Asda Hypermarket and a leisure area called Aspects with a multiplex Vue cinema, Bowlplex centre, gym, four restaurants and two pubs. All these businesses claim to be in the better known, and larger, Longwell Green, but all are geographically Barrs Court.
The History
Barrs Court Moat was initially part of Kingswood Chase, a royal hunting forest (successor to the larger forest of Kingswood, deforested in 1228). The name comes from Lady Jane Barre who owned the land in the mid 15th Century. The moat itself borders a range of old ruins, these are of the large mansion owned by the Newton family, this stood until around 1740.One corner of the moat is now in-filled. Following the demolition of the mansion a farmhouse was developed from what was originally the outbuildings of the original mansion house. One of these original outbuildings, the large cruciform barn, was converted in the late 1980s into a public house.
There are a number of fine monuments in Bristol Cathedral
Bristol Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity is the Church of England cathedral in the city of Bristol, England, and is commonly known as Bristol Cathedral...
to the Newton family.