Kingsweston is a ward of the city of Bristol. The three districts in the ward are Coombe Dingle, Lawrence Weston and Sea Mills. The ward takes its name from the old district of Kings Weston (usually spelt in two words), now generally considered part of Lawrence Weston.

Coombe Dingle is a suburb of Bristol, centred on where the River Trym emerges from a gorge passing through the Blaise Castle Estate. A desirable area, the private housing was mainly built in the 1920s and 1930s. Further downstream is Sea Mills. There was a tin Methodist church which was demolished in the mid-1990s. There are still some photos of it on tin Tabernacles. It was a small gothic building of the 1890s.

Lawrence Weston is a post war housing estate in north west Bristol between Henbury and Shirehampton. It is bounded in the east by the Blaise Castle estate and woods. It is situated directly beneath the wooded Kingsweston Hill. The industrial complex and port of Avonmouth is a mile or so away, across the flood plain. The residential area was built in the late 1940s/early 1950s. Originally council owned, much of the housing stock is now in private hands. It is known as "El Dub" to its inhabitants. The row of shops in Ridingleaze has been revamped and each shop is now adorned with a mural.

Grant V Shapps MP (born 14 September 1968, Watford) is the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Welwyn Hatfield in the United Kingdom and Minister of State for Housing and Planning. He first won the seat in the general election on 5 May 2005 and was returned to parliament in the May 2010 election with a 17,423 majority.

He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor on 9 June 2010.

Shapps was born in Watford in Hertfordshire and educated at Watford Grammar School for Boys followed by Cassio College where he completed a Business & Finance course at Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University), where he received a Higher National Diploma. Shapps was born to a British Jewish family, and was a one-time BBYO youth leader.

In 1990, aged 22, Grant Shapps founded PrintHouse Corporation, a design, print, website creation and marketing business sited in London. As with other members of the Shadow Cabinet he stepped down as a Director.

Shapps stood for Parliament during the 1997 election as the Conservative candidate for North Southwark and Bermondsey, and for the Welwyn Hatfield constituency for the 2001 election, both unsuccessfully.