North Weston is a village in the civil parish of Portishead, in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. It lies between Portishead and Weston-in-Gordano, within the parish of Portishead. In the 2001 census the North Weston ward (which includes the Redcliffe Bay area of Portishead) had a population of 3,890.
At the north end of the village is Gordano School. To the west of the village lies Weston Big Wood.
North Weston was historically a hamlet in the parish of Portishead.National Gazetteer, 1868 It was created a separate civil parish on 31 December 1894. On 1 April 1993 the parish was reunited with Portishead.This is Bristol: 20 September 2008 The name of the parish was then "Portishead and North Weston" from 1993 to 2011 when the name was changed to just Portishead. In 1971 the parish had a population of 2469.
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