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Kingswood

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Kingswood, city (1991 pop. 54,736), South Gloucestershire, SW England. A residential suburb of Bristol Bristol, city (1991 pop. 370,300), SW England, at the confluence of the Avon and Frome rivers. Bristol, a leading international port, has extensive facilities, including docks at Avonmouth, Portishead, and Royal Portbury.
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, the city of Kingswood has printing and light engineering industries. The area is noted for its open-air chapel, which marks the site of Methodist open-air sermons on Hanham Mount by John Wesley Wesley, John, 1703–91, English evangelical preacher, founder of Methodism, b. Epworth, Lincolnshire. Early Life


Wesley was ordained a deacon in the Church of England in 1725, elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1726, and ordained
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 and George Whitefield Whitefield, George, 1714–70, English evangelistic preacher, leader of the Calvinistic Methodist Church. At Oxford, which he entered in 1732, he joined the Methodist group led by John Wesley and Charles Wesley.
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 in the 18th cent.


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Years of rumour and uncertainty appear to have been ended after Scarisbrick Hall School, known until recently as Kingswood College, changed hands at the beginning of August.
A pair of peregrine falcons have been spotted raising three chicks among the gargoyles and statues at the gothic Scarisbrick Hall in Scarisbrick, which is home to Kingswood College Trust.
Sonya Johnson, who runs the Wellness Matters project, says she and her team want to start classes in Camp Hill, Barpool, Kingswood Abbey, Wembrook Bede, Bedworth Heath and Poplar.
 
 
 
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