Charlton, Bristol

Charlton was the name of a small village or large hamlet in present-day South Gloucestershire, England with a Bethel Chapel and Sunday School.

The village was located between Filton and what is today the Cribbs Causeway out-of-town commercial and retail area immediately north of Bristol.

To the north of the village lay fields and Over Court Deer Park, which is today Bristol Golf Club.

In the late 1940s most of the village was demolished to make way for an extension of the main runway at Filton Airfield to accommodate the take-off and landing requirements of the Bristol Brabazon propeller-driven airliner.

It allowed major overhaul and conversion programmes to be done at Filton on General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark and Vickers VC10 aircraft.