Headley Park is not quite an island - the locals joke that there’s two roads in and one road out - but it has an island feel.
On a hill in South Bristol, the quiet residential estate is perched above steep-sided, wooded valleys on both sides - Manor Woods Valley on one and Crox Bottom on the other, with the Caters industrial estate effectively forming another barrier to the south.
The two roads in to what is almost a huge cul-de-sac come from Bishopsworth, while the one road out leads to the rest of the city - down St Peter’s Rise to Hartcliffe Way and Bedminster. So when council surveyors found that the main artery through Headley Park was subsiding and needed to be fixed, the local residents knew there would be a bit of disruption.
