The village consists of a number of cottages and farms centred on St Anne's Church, and the grand Tudor manor house of Siston Court.

The local part of the disafforested Kingswood became Siston Common but has recently been eroded by the construction of the Avon Ring Road and housing developments.

[5] The manor of Siston lay in the Hundred of Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, and adjoined the Royal Forest of Kingswood to the west, and claimed right of purlieu over a portion of it.

[10][11] It is situated on a ridge overlooking the Siston Brook Valley[8] and was constructed on the site of a previous medieval mansion of the Denys family.

[12] In 1607 when owned by Mr. Weekes who had purchased Siston Court from the Denys family, it was recorded as:[13] "a new house of stone which cost £3,000 built by Dennis; a park which will keep 1,000 fallow deer & rich mines of coal which yield almost as great revenue as the land"[14][15] In 1710, during the Trotman period of ownership, the Britannia Illustrata published an engraving by Jan Kip (1653–1722) of the house showing it surrounded by extensive formal landscaped gardens.

[8][nb 3] The ornate Renaissance Tudor chimneypiece in the great hall was purchased by Emperor Haile Selasse, then in exile in Bristol, who shipped it to Addis-Ababa Palace.

[9] Queen Anne of Denmark, wife of King James I, stayed at Siston Court in June 1613 as guest of Sir Henry Billingsley.

[26][27] She had been lavishly entertained by the Corporation of Bristol during the day, with massive military displays and mock sea battles between Turk and English mariners having been staged for her, immortalised in a versified account by Naile, an apprentice.

Having been refused as a spouse by Princess Elizabeth, he was determined to wed the ex-Queen Katherine Parr, even before a nine-month delay, considered by courtiers to have been seemly and constitutionally prudent, had expired.

It may have been as a result of Denys's complicity in these arrangements that Katherine, widowed by King Henry VIII in 1547, resided for eight weeks of her future short life in a house within the vicinity of Siston, known as Mount's Court, held by the Strange family.

[36] In the 1900s, Mrs. Rawlins, wife of the owner of Siston Court, made a large wall-painting[37] in the Pre-Raphaelite-style of Edward Burne-Jones for church covering the chancel arch,[38][39] based upon a Renaissance fresco in the Palazzo Riccardi in Florence.

[44] The Avon Ring Road has been built on the western edge of the common/ The members of Siston Parish Council serve voluntarily and are unpaid.

They meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month in the Warmley Community Centre to manage affairs related to Siston, such as bus shelters, local planning, and rural footpaths.