The name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and means "filthy open land" (Old English horu and feld).

[2] Horfield was a parish in the hundred of Berkeley in Gloucestershire, which included Bishopston, Golden Hill, Lockleaze and part of Ashley Down.

[3] Historically, the area had a reputation as a lawless place because Horfield Wood was the haunt of thieves and vagrants.

Following the 1831 Bristol Riots, during which the local gaol burnt down, Horfield Prison was completed in 1847.

[7] Horfield is home to the Memorial Stadium: a sports stadium built in 1921 for Bristol Rugby Club in memory of the rugby union players of the city who died in World War I, and rededicated to also commemorate the dead of World War II.

Near the Memorial Stadium is The Wellington, CAMRA Bristol & District joint winner of Pub of the Year for 2005.

[citation needed] The 2006 Pub of the Year is also in Horfield, The Inn on the Green on Gloucester Road.

The nearest Police Station used to be situated just west of Horfield on Southmead Road, however this was closed and replaced by a care home.

Tram lines which once lead into the depot have been preserved in the surface of the car park of the surgery.

The southern part of the parish is in Bishopston ward, in Bristol West parliamentary constituency.

A building with a roof (similar to Horfield Parish), Anglo catholic interior, and a high church tradition.

The church closed in 1979 and was a printers but was demolished in 2006 – the local planning authority did not request obligatory photos.

[15] Methodist Chapel – 1899 by La Trobe – very good essay in late Victorian Arts and Crafts Gothic with a fine wooden interior.