Panorama of eastern Long Ashton from Weston RoadĪ Parochial School opened in 1818 and moved several times - the current Primary School, called Northleaze, opened in 1867 and moved to new premises in Brook Close in 2006. During the Second World War it developed rose hip syrup and Ribena. It became the Agricultural and Horticultural Research Station in 1912, and was known as Long Ashton Research Station until it was closed in 2003. The National Fruit and Cider Institute opened at Fenswood on the edge of the village in 1903.
There are several other historic pubs in the area, very popular with visitors from Bristol-a horse-drawn bus ran from Redcliffe Street, Bristol to the Bird-in-Hand several times a week in the late 19th century. The Angel Inn, near the church, is the oldest pub in the village, dating from 1495 and originally being a church-house. There was an iron foundry in the 19th century and coal mines - the Bedminster-Ashton coalfield finally closed in 1924. Stone has been quarried for lime burning, as well as for building and road making. Later it was owned by an iron founder, who made edge tools and other farm implements and installed cast-iron water wheels. By the early 19th century rented out for snuff grinding and in the 1830s a steam engine was installed to power a flour and corn mill. Kincott Mill had stood since at least the 13th century. The internal machinery is still in place and the mill has been designated as a Grade II listed building. By 1846 it had been converted to grind mustard, annatto and drugs, but by 1874 was a flour mill. The Ashton Court estate provided occupations such as gamekeepers and foresters, and there have been several mills in the parish including a snuff-mill on the Land Yeo at Gatcombe in 1769, however the current building dates from the early 19th century. Since the earliest recorded times, agriculture has been the major occupation of the parish, and there are still several working farms, some just outside the village. Many of the people who have grown up in the village passed through this Sunday School. The other Church, Hebron Church was founded in 1934 by Ernest Dyer, who cycled to the village from Keynsham to run a Sunday School. The interior has some fine tombs, and some relatives of the poet Robert Southey are buried in the churchyard. The parish church of All Saints dates from about 1380, and the arms of its founder (Thomas de Lyons) are on the outside of the tower. A deserted medieval farmstead and part of a Romano-British field system 400 metres (1,300 ft) north of Fenswood Farm has been identified including three enclosures which are thought to be the foundations of buildings, each surrounded by rubble banks. By 1603 the Smyths had become the principal landowners in the parish and were lords of Long Ashton for four centuries-the estate finally being sold in 1946. Previously the manor had passed through the hands of the Lyons, Choke and finally Smyth families. The manor house dates to 1265 and, in the late 15th century shares in the estate were purchased by Richard Amerike (one of the possible sources of the name America). The parish was part of the hundred of Hartcliffe. The village is near two waterways being The Longmoor Brook and The Ashton Brook, thus the name Long Ashton. The Domesday Book records it as Estune (the place by the ash tree) and, afterwards, it was granted to Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances. Prehistoric and Roman artefacts have been found in the area, at the site of the Gatcombe Roman Settlement, but the village originated in Saxon times.
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