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Ross Millen

Is Kingswood in Bristol or South Gloucestershire? Locals have their say

The debate on whether Kingswood lies within Bristol or South Gloucestershire has rumbled on for years.

With seemingly no clear winner, we decided to put it to Bristol Live readers to decide which side of the border Kingswood falls in.

While it can't be denied that when it comes to council boundaries the former royal hunting estate and mining town is technically part of South Gloucestershire, there was a time when the area was a separate borough within the ill-fated Avon County Council.

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Kingswood is located just five or so miles east of the city centre of Bristol, and it's very hard to spot where Bristol becomes South Gloucestershire given the blurred boundary lines.

The A420 follows through from one suburb to another and despite a sign indicating your arrival into the county of South Gloucestershire, many believe it is still within the Bristol border.

Now, thanks to our readers, we've managed to gain a fairly conclusive answer on where Kingswood is situated.

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A survey of 114 of our Bristol Live readers found 72 per cent of respondents believe that Kingswood is in fact in South Gloucestershire, with 83 of the 114 who answered stating that they think Kingswood sits outside Bristol's boundaries.

On Facebook, the debate continued to rage on, and although most people favoured South Gloucestershire, not everyone was convinced.

One of our readers, Sharon Mccue, said: "We [people in Kingswood] live in Bristol. If you live in Weston-super-Mare you don’t say we live in North Somerset."

Janeen Stevens added: "I class it as Bristol but I pay council tax to South Gloucestershire! It has a Bristol postcode, so in my opinion, it's Bristol."

Danny Turner seemed conflicted in his response, saying: "I consider Longwell Green to be Bristol so Kingswood definitely is. I know by county lines they're South Gloucestershire though."

Karen Chard stated the facts and simply said: "[We live in] South Gloucestershire as the road sign confirming is down by the Black Horse pub."

Similarly, Steve Pearce added: "If you pay South Gloucestershire council tax it's in South Gloucestershire."

Another of our readers, David Langridge, joked: "Different planet all together that place."

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