[1] Local facilities include shops and pubs, a public library, community arts centre and an indoor skate park.

Bishopsworth electoral ward contains the Bedminster Down, Headly Park, Highridge and Uplands areas, and had a population of 12,274 at the 2021 census.

[6] In 1928 the ecclesiastical parish of Bedminster Down was created from the north of Bishopsworth in response to the development of the area.

The first church in Bishopsworth was a small chapel dedicated to St Peter and St Paul built under an arrangement in 1194 between Robert Arthur, lord of the manor, and George de Dunster, prebendary of Bedminster.

The chapel was converted into three cottages which stood until the Corporation demolished them in 1961 to make way for a swimming pool, which was built in the early 1970s.

[12] The area is served by The Maytree public house and Headly Park Church, originally known as Crossways Tabernacle.