More information : An Iron Age fort may have been sited at ST 598718 on
the great bluff of Totterdown above the River Avon, though the
area is now built up and there is no trace of an earthwork. The
"way near Aldebury of Knowle" is mentioned in a Bristol charter
of 1188, and Rocque's map of 1742 names the junction of the
Bath Road and the Wells Road as Aldeburyham. The subsequent
name of the same hill-top, Totterdown, may refer to its
secondary use as a look-out hill, perhaps by the Saxons. (1)
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