Filton is a town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England, 6 miles (10 km) north of Bristol.

Along with nearby Patchway and Bradley Stoke, Filton forms part of the Bristol urban area and has become an overflow settlement for the city.

Filton Park is regarded as a desirable place to live since it is close to major centres of employment such as BAE Systems, and Defence Equipment & Support at Abbey Wood.

Other employers include the MOD, Viridor, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Royal Mail.

The company has neither distributors nor dealers and deals directly with customers; they have a showroom and head office in Kensington, London.

[8] Filton is an ethnically diverse town, with a proportion of white British residents close to the national average.

[12] Thousands of mites, farthings and other coins of the Roman emperors, Domitian, Constantine and Constans were found in a bank by some boys in 1880.

[citation needed] At the start of the 20th century, Filton was a small village, still detached from the city of Bristol to the south.

However, there was a large factory-like laundry in the village, opposite Filton House, owned by Samuel Shield.

A much larger railway station, known as Filton Junction, opened in 1910, after the alternate rail route from Bristol to London was finished.

Initially development (semi-detached housing) was concentrated on the western side of the A38, in an area known as Filton Park.

In the late 1940s, the main runway of Filton Aerodrome was greatly extended for the Bristol Brabazon project.

In the early 1950s the Bristol Aeroplane Company opened a purpose-built technical college to help train their apprentice intake.

Sandwiched between roads, factories, railway lines and the aerodrome, Filton expanded little after World War II.

However, from the late 1970s a trading estate slowly developed on the eastern side of the Bristol/South Wales railway line in what is now known as East Filton.