The C10 turned over on take-off at the airfield in Yate and was taken to Hamble for repair at which time it was modified to incorporate an engine-driven rotor-starting device.

Accordingly a move was made to Yate, then in Gloucestershire, where hangars were built beside a grass aerodrome.

It was to be the last Parnall machine to fly, after which Parnall turned his attention to producing aircraft gun turrets to Archie Frazer Nash's design in the Yate factory until the war ended.

Lissan was one of the first estates in this area to be settled when it was purchased by Sir Thomas Staples of Yate Court near Bristol in 1610.

Thornbury was once served by a railway line ; it was the terminus of a branch line of the Midland Railway ( later part of the LMS ), from Yate on the Bristol to Gloucester main line, with intermediate stations at Iron Acton and Tytherington.

A part of Yate in South Gloucestershire in England was developed using the Radburn model.

Yate was in Gloucestershire until 1974 when it became part of the newly-formed county of Avon.

It was the opening of the railway station in 1844, as part of Bristol and Gloucester Railway, that established Yate, with Station Road becoming the central thoroughfare.

Yate railway station was closed by the Beeching Axe in January 1965, but was reopened in May 1989 ; the Brunel-built engine shed is preserved nearby.

In the 1960s Yate was designated as a development area and the building boom began.

When a secondary school was built in the late 1970s, it was supposed to be called Brinsham Green School, after Brinsham Lane at nearby Yate Rocks.

This model was used until the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the planners reverted back to traditional street design methods for the development of the remainder of North Yate, Brimsham Park and the Newmans factory site.

The last commercial excavation of celestine from the Yate area was during the Vietnam War.

As with the most British net towns, modern art was included in the design: in the case of Yate, this was in the form of the Four Seasons sculpture, and a graceful and dramatic spire-shaped sculpture, which could be seen for miles, mounted high above the centre on the roof of one of the shops.

This was part a scheme to create a bypass from Rodford Way in South Yate to Nibley.

The scheme was only partially completed in 1974, the year when Yate became a part of Avon.

The Borough of Blackburn was formed by the amalgamation of the County Borough of Blackburn, the Borough of Darwen, part of the Turton Urban District and the parishes of Yate and Pickup Bank, Eccleshill, Livesey, Pleasington and Tockholes from the Blackburn Rural District.

A new Junction, 15A, is being considered by Wiltshire Council and this would give access to South and Central Swindon as well as to Wroughton, Marlborough and Devizes via the existing A4361, as well as a possible Junction 18A which would connect with the A432 and A4174 giving better access to Bristol, via Mangotsfield, and also a direct link with Yate.

Yate is represented in the UK Parliament by the constituency of Thornbury and Yate.

At one time Yate ’ s celestine accounted for 95 per cent of the world's production.

During the 1980s and into the mid 1990s, the shopping centre hosted Yate ’ s annual festival.

Memorial to the 52 killed in German air raids on 27 Feb 1941 at Parnall Aircraft in Yate

Vegetation found within the park is mostly on young dune systems that have large communities of coastal heath with smaller systems of Yate, Banksia, Paperbark and Mallee.

Yate noted clusters of kebetkas, or the summer dwellings of the Qala-e Naw Hazaras on the hillsides, and described “ flocks and herds grazing in all directions ”.

There are two Tesco Express stores in Yate: one on Station Road and one in Brimsham Park.

Yate Common on Westerleigh Road is used for dog walking, nature watching, kite flying, circuses and fairs.

Yate station, on the Bristol to Birmingham main line, originally closed in January 1965 but reopened in May 1989.

long, the River Frome rises in the grounds of Dodington Park in the Cotswolds of South Gloucestershire, flows through Chipping Sodbury in a north westerly direction through Yate, and is then joined by the Nibley brook on the left at Nibley.

Continuing southwards between Yate and Winterbourne, the Frome crosses Winterbourne Down, to Damsons Bridge where the Folly Brook tributary merges on the left bank.

It lies east of Earthcott, Latteridge, Iron Acton and Yate on the B4059 road.

now plays home games on Yate Common, Sunnyside Lane, Yate, away.

It is located on the main Bristol-Birmingham line, between Yate and Gloucester, at a site close to where Coaley Junction railway station was situated from 1856 to 1965.

The manor of Kentwood was owned by Peter Vanlore, before passing through the Kentwood family ( taking their name from the manor itself ), the Swafield family, the Yate family, the Fettiplace family and the Dunch family.

Yate and District Athletic Club is a track-and-field club based at Yate Outdoor Sports Centre.

The largest youth club in Yate is St Nicholas Youth Football Club.

Yate Hockey Club runs teams from adult to junior.

Yate is a town in South Gloucestershire, England, at the southwest extremity of the Cotswold Hills, 12 miles ( 19 km ) northeast of the city of Bristol.

The town of Chipping Sodbury ( population 5, 066 ) is contiguous with Yate to the east.

The first mention of Yate is the existence of a religious house in about AD 770 ; Yate is also mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Buses in Yate pick up and set down at Yate Bus Station which is at Yate Shopping Centre.

Yate is twinned with Bad Salzdetfurth in Germany, and Genieri in Gambia.

There is also a ladies ' football team, Yate Town Girls / Ladies FC, that plays in local leagues.

He is the Member of Parliament for Thornbury & Yate and the Minister of State for Pensions.

The village is commonly known as Nibley: the official name North Nibley distinguishes it from the village of Nibley, just outside Yate, about 10 miles away in South Gloucestershire.