Windmill Hill

Windmill Hill sits on a ridge just south of Bristol city centre and is primarily residential, with rows of Victorian terraces, pocket green spaces and small local shops. The hill gives the park its name: a 19th-century windmill once stood near the highest point, and the park still provides a raised outlook across the inner city. Local services include primary schools, community centres and street-level cafés and grocers that cater to day-to-day needs rather than tourist trade.

The area has regular bus links into the centre and borders Bedminster to the west and Totterdown to the east, making it part of a continuous stretch of inner-south neighbourhoods. Community activity is visible in allotment plots, school playgrounds and organised park events that use the open slopes for family gatherings and seasonal fairs. Housing stock is mostly terraced with some later infill, and small-scale building projects and retrofits are common as residents adapt older houses to modern living.