early example showing the arch design of brick and stone bridges but built of a material where an arch is unnecessary. In the Dingle itself, the river drove a flour mill called Coombe Mill. Below Coombe House, just above the confluence of the Trym and Hazel Brook, was a sluice where the footbridge now is. This diverted the water through a mill stream to Hazel Brook. Another sluice there diverted the water into a millstream which ran approximately below where the main path now runs down to the site of the mill. This clever arrangement meant that when the flow in Hazel Brook was low the miller could use the water of the River Trym as well as that of Hazel Brook. There is a parade of shops on Westbury Lane. There used to be, close to the road bridge and near the northern end of Coombe Lane, a "tin" (i.e. corrugated iron) Methodist chapel. It was a small building with plain Gothic-style windows dating from the 1890s, demolished in the mid-1990s and replaced by a house. There are no other places of worship in Coombe Dingle. Coombe Lane is the home of Bristol University sports complex, which is commonly referred to as Coombe Dingle, though it is really in Stoke Bishop. References Fisher, Janet, and Derek Fisher (2002) Bygone Bristol: Sneyd Park, Stoke Bishop, Coombe Dingle, Henbury on old postcards. Bristol: Bygone Bristol. Areas of Bristol