Longwell Green

Longwell Green is named after a medieval well that no longer exists and a green that has largely been surrendered to retail parks and a leisure complex, which is about as honest a summary of the place as you could hope for. This is Bristol overspill done comfortably: post-war estates, a cinema, a big shop, and the sort of quiet that people either move here for on purpose or bolt from within the year. The most dramatic thing to happen locally was the well drying up, and the residents seem perfectly content to keep it that way.