Willsbridge

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Willsbridge
Gloucestershire
Willsbridge Mill.jpg
Willsbridge Mill
Location
Grid reference: ST667705
Location: 51°25’58"N, 2°28’47"W
Data
Postcode: BS30
Local Government
Council: South Gloucestershire

Willsbridge is a village in Gloucestershire, on the outskirts of Bristol in the south of the county.

Willsbridge Castle, standing on a prominent hillside site, was built around 1730, with crenellations added in the nineteenth century.[1]

Willsbridge Castle

The village contains a nature reserve and historic buildings next to the Siston Brook. The mill and barn buildings are managed by a voluntary group, Willsbridge Mill Community Refresh, for community use.

The valley contains many habitats. The woodlands have carpets of bluebells, campions and resound with birdsong. The ponds are homes for frogs, toads and dragonflies, and dippers and kingfishers visit the stream. Foxes and badgers live in the valley and noctule and Greater Horseshoe Bat feed on the insects in the valley.[2]

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