Mangotsfield
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Mangotsfield is a village in South Gloucestershire, England.
The village is in the north-east outer-suburbs of the Bristol area. Mentioned in the Domesday Book 1086 National Archives Cat Ref: E31/2/1 Manegodesfelle. The village is north of the suburb of Kingswood, limited to the north by the M4 motorway and to the east by the Emersons Green housing estate. Mangotsfield used to have a railway station on the former Midland Railway line, closed 1966. It was the junction on the main line between Bristol and Gloucester for the branch line that ran to Bath Green Park and on to the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway to Bournemouth.
It is the home of Mangotsfield United F.C. and Cleeve R.F.C.
Mangotsfield was an ancient parish. It was reduced in 1894 by the creation of a Kingswood parish, with the rest forming a rural parish in Warmley Rural District. In 1927 a Mangotsfield urban district was set up in part of the parish, the remainder becoming the Mangotsfield Rural parish.
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