Welcome to Ashton Vale - This web site is a celebration our unique heritage.    

Ashton Vale is a small community on the edge of South Bristol. With charming  wide open spaces and land protected by Green Belt Policy, local people have valued these fields, woods and the beautiful Colliters Brook that surround Ashton Vale for generations. 

Ashton Vale is surrounded on three sides by industrial Estates, built up over the last forty years.  It's gem is the natural green open space, described as both the lungs of Bristol and Gateway to The historic City and County of Bristol.

Ashton Vale is a long established community and Ashton Vale Fields are an intrinsic and important part of it's identity. The area is frequented by both local people and from people from surrounding areas.  With access to local countryside and walks it is the perfect place to engage with nature and wildlife, whilst being within a stones throw of the city.  Ashton Vale Fields are used by walkers, joggers and families for a variety of purposes. The area is  mostly flat and also has access to public footpaths. 

Ashton Vale Fields play host to a wide array of wildlife which has thrived in the area due to the absence of roads. Yet amazingly this unique area is again under threat from major development which would deprive people of natural open space and Green belt forever. This unique place would become part of a greater urban extension and change forever.  

Ashton Vale is a quiet traditional residential area in a treasured semi rural position, set just minutes from a major city it has managed to maintain a village like atmosphere.  There are many third and fourth generation families living here with uninterrupted views of Ashton Court, Dundry,  Long Ashton and the ancient village church and village. Ashton Vale has lovely views of the famous Brunel  Suspension Bridge and Clifton.

Tragically this beautiful area is again fighting for survival and is now under serious threat from developers.  In September 2010 local residents secured Town Green Status for the fields and are now locked in a further battle with Bristol City Council to register the land and protect it forever. 

Please join our campaign to protect Ashton Vale Fields for future generations and to help us save green fields around all our cities.  Environmentalists, sociologists and scientists all agree that natural green space is a necessity for communities to thrive and survive.

Over the whole of the UK and especially in the South West of England, Green Belt and Green Spaces , until now protected by Green Belt Policy since the 1950's have become the target of successive governments with inappropriate housing and development policies.  Under the guise of regeneration large areas are under permanent threat.  Over 500,000 houses are planned for the South West with over 120, 000 in Bristol alone and 10,000 in South West Bristol.   Yet at the same time other European countries are floundering financially because of those same housing policies, where houses have been built but the financial status of these countries leave hundreds of thousands of homes unsold.

Visit saveourgreenspaces.org to find out whats happening in a field near you.

We truly value our heritage and want to work together to protect it, us and future generations.  View map of Ashton Vale on Multimap.com
Birds Eye view of Ashton Vale on Multimap.com