[2] Originally a separate village, Weston has become part of Bath as the city has grown, first through the development of Lower Weston in Victorian times and then by the incorporation of the village into the city, with the siting of much local authority housing there in the period after World War II.

[6] Two manors with 41 households are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086: one held by Bath Abbey and the other by Arnulf de Hesding.

[8] Weston was part of the hundred of Bath Forum,[9][10] with a manorial court or halmote being held in the parish.

[11] The land continued to be owned by the church and leased to tenants until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539,[12] after which the estates in Weston reverted to the king.

[15] Weston was an ancient parish extending from the River Avon to the Gloucestershire boundary north of Lansdown.

Weston village is home to the 66th Bath Scout Group who meet at the former school on the High Street.

[26] The Lower Weston parish church is St John's, barely a mile from Bath's city centre, and now in Kingsmead ward.

Weston is served by four main bus routes, operated by First and The Big Lemon and providing connections towards Lower Weston, Newbridge, Bath City Centre, Twerton, University of Bath, Oldfield Park and Odd Down.