It is in the Ashley electoral ward and Bristol Central parliamentary constituency, 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) northeast of The Centre.

[3][failed verification] Mina Road is St Werburghs' 'high street', whose shops each have an imaginative figurehead protruding from their frontages indicating the type of trade on offer.

[citation needed] The park opposite the shops contains an original example of a cast iron Victorian public lavatory.

[citation needed] St Werburghs has a city farm and has been the scene of several environmental campaigns including the development of a self-build housing community and the establishing of Narroways Hill as a Millennium Green and wildlife area.

The solid geology in the Mina Road Park area and in the valleys of the River Frome and Horfield Brook is overlain by superficial deposits of Quaternary alluvium.