Emersons Green is a suburb of

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and parish in the

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. Sitting 7 miles northeast of

, England. It was developed from farming land during the 1990s and early 21st century, and sits within the historic parish of

Mangotsfield Mangotsfield is an urban area and former village in the unitary authority area of South Gloucestershire, in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England, to the north-east of Bristol. The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 ...

. Coal was mined from the area during the 19th century. To the south there is a quarry, which has been reactivated. A science and technology park, in conjunction with Bristol University and

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, named Bristol & Bath Science Park, has been built on an area of land adjacent to the M4 motorway and the A4174 ringroad. Construction of the £300 million Bristol and Bath Science Park began in early 2010. It was opened in September 2011 and is expected to create 6,000 new jobs within the science and technology sector, when it is completed in 2020. A link road connecting the M4 to the Avon ring road (A4174) has now been considered a necessary addition to the area, to accommodate the increase in traffic due to the science park.

Governance

Emersons Green was until 1927 a hamlet in the civil parish of Mangotsfield. From 1927 to 2015 it was in the civil parish of Mangotsfield Rural. The parish was renamed Emersons Green in 2015 and enlarged by the addition of areas of the civil parishes of

Pucklechurch Pucklechurch is a large village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England. It has a current population of about 3000. The village dates back over a thousand years and was once the site of a royal hunting lodge, as it adjoined a large fo ...

and Westerleigh. The parish council elected to be known as Emersons Green Town Council. The parish has four wards: Badminton, Blackhorse, Pomphrey (3 Councillors each) and Emersons Green itself (7 councillors) The boundaries of the parish were adjusted to take in the housing development at Lyde Green, and the Science Park. The M4 motorway is now the north eastern boundary.

Lyde Green

Lyde Green Emersons Green East development brief.
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that was originally farmland. Its transformation into housing began in the mid 2010s. It is built to the east of Emersons Green.

References

External links

Emersons Green Town Council
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