Falfield

Falfield is a village and civil parish in the Charfield ward of South Gloucestershire, near the boundary with Stroud District, and within the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire. The village is situated on the A38 Gloucester Road, immediately west of junction 14 of the M5 motorway. In Norman times, it formed part of the historical Bagstone Hundred of Gloucestershire and later the Thornbury Hundred. thumb|St. George's Church, built in 1860. thumb|The Huntsman's Inn, formerly Huntsman's House. thumb|Falfield Village Hall

==Geography== Falfield is at the west of a tributary of the Little Avon River. The linear part of the village along the A38 lies on the Tortworth Beds, sedimentary bedrock made of mudstone formed between 438.5 and 433.4 million years ago in the Silurian period. To the east are areas of calcareous limestone and mudstone and to the west mudstone, siltstone and sandstone of the Mercia Mudstone Group, also sedimentary bedrock formed between 252.2 and 201.3 million years ago during the Triassic. Superficially, there are river terrace sediments of clay, silt and sand formed between 2.588 million years ago and the present during the Quaternary period as well as the alluvium of the Little Avon River which is up to 11,800 years old. The elevation in Falfield at the A38 is 30 metres, whereas at the southwest of Eastwood Farm it reaches 68 metres and northeast of Tortworth Court it reaches 85 metres.