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Bristol is an unincorporated farming community and census-designated place on Farm Road 660 in northeastern Ellis County, about eighteen miles northeast of Waxahachie.

The area was first settled in the early 1840s by Joshua Brock of Missouri, and the community was first called Brockville, with a post office under that name from 1854 to 1869; for a time it was also unofficially known as Heelstring.

The original townsite stood on the banks of the Trinity River, but after a fire destroyed the town in the late 1800s it was relocated to its present site.

Captain Steven Mills, who had done business in Bristol, England, named his new store Bristol, and the community eventually adopted the name; the Bristol post office opened on August 15, 1872.

Community life in the 1860s and 1870s revolved around the Sparkman family's steam gristmill, sawmill, and cotton gin, and a log building built in 1870 served as church, school, and lodge room.

Bristol's population peaked at about 300 in 1933, and the historic village reported just 94 residents from 1972 through 2000, even as it continued as a supply and service center for area farmers and beef ranchers.

The Census Bureau first defined Bristol as a census-designated place for the 2010 census, counting 668 people across roughly six square miles, and the population rose to 714 in the 2020 census.

Bristol's residents skew notably older than Texas as a whole, with a median age of about 56 years recorded in the 2010 census and an average household size of about two and a half people.