Henbury, Bristol

Henbury is a suburb of Bristol, England, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) north west of the city centre.

To the north lie the South Gloucestershire village of Hallen and the entertainment/retail park Cribbs Causeway.

The ford is more than a foot deep relatively often and a small bridge exists as a main route for motor vehicles a few metres away.

An 8th century charter grants land at "Heanburu" to the church at Worcester, but the reference may be to Hanbury in Worcestershire.

[9] Botany Bay is an old name for the area of Henbury centred on the modern Marmion Crescent believed to derive from the nineteenth-century name of a row of cottages.

[10] The Great House, Henbury was the home of the Astry family, and of the slave or manservant Scipio Africanus (see below).

Nearby Henbury Court was built by Thomas Stock to replace the Great House.

[12] The churchyard contains the grave of Scipio Africanus, the west African 18th-century manservant of Charles William Howard, 7th Earl of Suffolk, notable for its brightly painted gravestones.

Emmanuel Chapel Henbury is an independent evangelical church located on Satchfield Crescent.

Crow Lane shops