Area information: Patchway

Patchway is a town in South Gloucestershire, situated some six miles (10km) north west of the city of Bristol. Its purpose was a housing overflow for Bristol. The town is contiguous to Bristols urban area and is often regarded as a large outer suburb. Nearby are the other Bristol satellite towns of Filton and Bradley Stoke.

Patchway lies just north of Filton Airfield, where Rolls Royce, BAE Systems and Airbus UK are major aerospace employers. The Mall and two retail parks at Cribbs Causeway, just north of Filton Airfield, form the largest shopping centre in south west England. Aztec West, an office and warehouse park, is situated on the northern fringes of the town.

A major four level motorway interchange (M4/M5) is close to Aztec West, called the Almondsbury Interchange, it was completed in the early 1970s.

Patchway Green is a semi-rural footpath which leads from Patchway Common eastwards to Bradley Stoke. On the north west fringe of Patchway Estate, a none excetant footbridge passes over the M5 motorway, down over the Severn Escarpment and into the village of Over.