Monks Park is a northern suburb of the city ofBristol,England, and is the highest point within the city. Monks Park stretches westward, towardsSouthmead, from theA38 trunk road.Filton Park lies directly north, on theSouth Gloucestershire side of the city boundary.Horfield lies to the east of the A38 and also to the south.
Monks Park takes its name fromJames Henry Monk, a nineteenth-century bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.[1] The first development in Monks Park took place in the 1930s. Housing is mainly privately owned and semi-detached.Southmead Hospital, Bristol's largest hospital, occupies the south west corner of the suburb. There are two primary schools (Upper Horfield and St Teresa'sRC) andOrchard School Bristol, formerly known as Monks Park School prior to 2009.[2]
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