Facilities close by include the Hengrove Leisure Park which has various restaurants and food retailers (KFC, McDonald's).

The suburb is home to the Whitchurch Sports Centre, and used to be an occasional venue for pro-boxing bouts.

The suburb is also home to rugby union club Bristol Barbarians who reside in Norton lane.

Whitchurch is also the birthplace of famous snooker player and world champion Judd Trump.

As it did not touch it cannot be classed as a tornado but nevertheless it provided an unusual yet impressive sight for the residents of Whitchurch and surrounding parts of Bristol, such as Stockwood.

[7] The village of Whitchurch is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset.

[8] Between 1925 and 1959 the village was served by Whitchurch Halt, a station on the Bristol and North Somerset Railway.

The following suburbs are in the same urban area, but lie in South Gloucestershire or North Somerset: