Kingswood

Kingswood is a town in South Gloucestershire, England. It is on the eastern outskirts of the city of Bristol, on the A420 road, as this main road leaves Bristol for Oxford. Kingswood is contiguous with Bristol, and although does not lie within the city limits, it acts in several capacities as a suburb of the city.

Kingswood should not be confused with the village within non metropolitan Gloucestershire, also named Kingswood.

In the 18th century it was a small coal mining village where George Whitefield's open-air preaching greatly influenced John Wesley in the founding of Methodism. The construction of a number of chapels, Tabernacle and schools by Whitefield, Wesley, and their associates and followers is held to be one of the factors contributing to Kingswood's growth.

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