The Bristol & Bath Railway Path now runs down the old line, and can be accessed at several points in Fishponds.

For elections to Bristol City Council, most of Fishponds is in the Frome Vale electoral ward.

The forest was progressively reduced and developed over the centuries, with Fishponds first recorded as the "Newe Pooles" in 1610, and subsequently "Fish Ponds" by 1734.

[4] By the 17th century it was a thriving village with numerous stone-built cottages for miners and quarrymen for coal and pennant stone.

During the mid-to-late 19th century, Fishponds established a large manufacturing industry along Lodge Causeway and Filwood Road.

Peckett and Sons also built locomotives at the Atlas Works towards Speedwell, whose engines joined the line at Clay Hill, until the firm closed in 1961.

From 1894 Palmer Bros biscuit and cake manufacturers had two sites in Fishponds Road, including a factory that is now part of the City Glass Company.

The aeronautics industry arrived in Fishponds in 1914 when Brazil Straker on Lodge Causeway began building Rolls-Royce aircraft engines for the RFC in World War I.

It had an entirely new labour-saving design and produced a range of domestic and luxury ceramics that were exported across the world.

The two sites are now owned by Graphic Packaging and Zanetti & Company Ltd stone and marble masons, whose products and floors appear in airports, shops and railway stations throughout the UK.

The Star (built in 1853), was once the headquarters of Bristol Rovers football club when they played as the Black Arabs in the 1890s.

Media related to Fishponds at Wikimedia Commons The following suburbs are in the same urban area, but lie in South Gloucestershire or North Somerset: