The following is from Pigot's 1830 directory. Although a village in 1830 it's now very much a part of the city of Bristol. BRISLINGTON, is a neat village, in the county of Somerset, three miles from Bristol, on the Bath road. This is a very genteel neighbourhood, and is the residence of many opulent merchants of Bristol. Here is a private asylum for those afflicted with insanity, conducted by Dr Fox, upon the most humane and salutary principles, and has long been celebrated as one of the most superior establishments of its kind. The number of inhabitants in the parish in 1821 was 1,216. Bernice