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Bristol
Bristol (pronounced /ˈbrɪstəl/ ( listen)) is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, 105 miles (169 km) west of London, and 24 miles (39 km) east of Cardiff.
With an estimated population of 416,400 for the unitary authority in mid-2007, and a surrounding urban...
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University of Bristol
The University of Bristol is a university in Bristol, England. One of the so-called "red brick" universities, it received its Royal Charter in 1909, although its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876....
Bristol Temple Meads railway station
Bristol Temple Meads railway station is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol, England. It is an important interchange hub for public transport in Bristol, with bus services to various parts of the city and surrounding districts, and a...
Bristol Parkway railway station
Bristol Parkway railway station serves the northern suburbs of Bristol, including Stoke Gifford and Bradley Stoke. It is part of the British railway system owned by Network Rail, and is run by First Great Western.
In the Strategic Rail Authority’s...
SS Great Britain
SS Great Britain was an advanced passenger steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. While other ships had previously been built of iron or equipped...
Clifton Suspension Bridge
The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge, and linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset, England. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, it is a landmark that is used as a symbol of Bristol. It is...
Bristol Zoo
Bristol Zoo is a zoo in the city of Bristol in South West England. The zoo's stated mission is "Bristol Zoo Gardens maintains and defends biodiversity through breeding endangered species, conserving threatened species and habitats and promoting a...
St Mary Redcliffe
St Mary Redcliffe (grid reference ST591723) is an Anglican parish church located in the Redcliffe district of the English port city of Bristol, close to the city centre.
The church is Grade I listed,
The church was described by Queen Elizabeth I as ...
University of the West of England
The University of the West of England (abbrev. UWE, often pronounced "you-we") is a university based in the English city of Bristol. Its main campus is at Frenchay, about five miles (8 km) north of the city centre. UWE also has a smaller campus at...
Bristol Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity is the Church of England cathedral in the city of Bristol, England, and is commonly known as Bristol Cathedral. Founded in 1140, it became the seat of the bishop and cathedral of the new Diocese...
Clifton Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of SS. Peter and Paul is the Roman Catholic cathedral in the English city of Bristol. Located in the Clifton area of the city, it is the seat of the Diocese of Clifton and is known as Clifton Cathedral.
Commissioned in 1965, it...
Clifton College
Clifton College is an English co-educational independent school in Clifton, Bristol, England, founded in 1862. In its early years it was notable (compared with most Public Schools of the time) for emphasising science in the curriculum, and for being...
The Coronation Tap
The Coronation Tap is a pub that serves cider, or a ciderhouse, in Clifton, Bristol.
The Coronation Tap, or Corrie to regulars and Thomas Robinson, has existed under that name for at least two hundred years. It is at least thirty years older than...
Clifton Hill House
Clifton Hill House (grid reference ST571737) is a grade I listed Palladian villa in the Clifton area of Bristol, England which is now used as a hall of residence by the University of Bristol. The current Warden is Mrs. A M Burnside.
It was built...
Bristol Grammar School
Bristol Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Clifton, Bristol, England.
It was founded in 1532 by two brothers, Robert and Nicholas Thorne, when it was housed in the St Bartholomew's Hospital, as part of the new founding of...
Bristol Old Vic
The Bristol Old Vic is a theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, King Street, in Bristol, England. The theatre complex includes the 1766 Theatre Royal, which claims to be the oldest continually-operating theatre in England, along with a 1970s...
Ashton Court
Ashton Court (grid reference ST553723) is a mansion house and estate to the west of Bristol in England. Although the estate lies mainly in North Somerset, it is owned by the City of Bristol. The estate has been a venue for a variety of leisure...
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
The Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery is a large museum and art gallery in Bristol, England. It is run by the city council with no entrance fee. It holds designated museum status, granted by the national government to protect outstanding museums....
Bristol Harbour
Bristol Harbour is the harbour in the city of Bristol, England. The harbour covers an area of 70 acres (28.3 ha). It has existed since the 13th century but was developed into its current form in the early 19th century by installing lock gates on a...
Trinity College, Bristol
Trinity College Bristol is a theological college affiliated to the Church of England. It is located in Stoke Bishop, a prosperous suburb in Bristol, England, next to the University of Bristol's residential halls. It offers various undergraduate and...
Arnolfini
The Arnolfini is an arts centre in Bristol, England. It has a changing programme of exhibitions, live art and dance events, poetry and book readings, talks, lectures and discussions and cinema. The exhibitions are free. There is also a well stocked...
Snuff Mills
Snuff Mills is a park in the Frenchay area of north Bristol, also known as Whitwood Mill.
There are pleasant walks along the steep wooded banks of the River Frome, for example to Oldbury Court. The park was purchased in 1926 by the Corporation of...
Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum
The Bristol Industrial Museum was a museum in Bristol, England. The museum featured exhibits documenting Bristol's maritime history, and included outdoor exhibits along Prince's Wharf on the Floating Harbour, including the Bristol Harbour Railway...
Llandoger Trow
The Llandoger Trow (grid reference ST588727) is a historic public house in Bristol, south west England.
Dating from 1664, it is in King Street, between Welsh Back and Queen Charlotte Street, near the old city centre docks. A trow was a flat-bottomed...
Bedminster
Bedminster is the name of both a council ward in Bristol, England, and an area of the city that falls mostly within that ward.
The ward contains the areas of Bedminster and Ashton Vale, and one railway station, Parson Street railway station. There...
Bristol Ferry Boat
The Bristol Ferry Boat Company operates water bus services on Bristol Harbour in the centre of the English city of Bristol.
Services are operated both for the leisure market and for commuters to and from both the city centre and Bristol Temple Meads...
Port of Bristol
The Port of Bristol comprises the commercial, and former commercial, docks situated in and near the city of Bristol in England. The Port of Bristol Authority was the commercial title of the Bristol City, Avonmouth, Portishead and Royal Portbury...
Blaise Castle
Blaise Castle is an 18th century mansion house and estate near Henbury in Bristol (formerly in Gloucestershire), England. Blaise Castle was immortalised by being described as "the finest place in England" in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey....
Blaise Hamlet
Blaise Hamlet is a hamlet in north west Bristol, England, composed of a complex of small cottages around a green. They were built around 1811 for retired employees of Quaker banker and philanthropist John Scandrett Harford, who owned Blaise Castle...
Handel Cossham
Handel Cossham (31 March 1824 – 23 April 1890) was a British MP, colliery owner, lay preacher and Mayor of Bath.
He was born in High Street, Thornbury, in a house where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were also born. His father Jesse...
Matthew
The Matthew was a caravel sailed by John Cabot in 1497 from Bristol to North America, presumably Newfoundland. After a voyage which had got no further than Iceland, Cabot left again with only one vessel, the Matthew, a small ship (50 tons), but fast...
St Matthias, Bristol
St Matthias,(grid reference ST633763) (known by its students as St Matts), is a campus of the University of the West of England, and is located in the suburb of Fishponds in Bristol. It houses the university's School of Humanities, Languages and...
Glenside, Bristol
Glenside campus is the home of the School of Health and Social Care at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. It is located on Blackberry Hill in the suburb of Fishponds. grid reference ST625763.
Stanley Spencer worked as a medical...
Wills Memorial Building
The Wills Memorial Building (also known as the Wills Memorial Tower or simply the Wills Tower) is a Neo Gothic building designed by Sir George Oatley and built as a memorial to Henry Overton Wills III. Begun in 1915, it is considered one of the last...
Pilning railway station
Pilning railway station is a small railway station at Pilning, South Gloucestershire, England. It is the last station on the English side before the Severn Tunnel through to Wales.
In the Strategic Rail Authority’s 2005/06 financial year, Pilning...
Tobacco Factory
The Tobacco Factory is the last remaining part of the Old Wills Tobacco site on Raleigh Road, Southville, Bristol. It was saved from demolition by Architect George Ferguson and through his vision has become a model of urban regeneration. It is now a...
Queen Elizabeth's Hospital
Queen Elizabeth's Hospital (more commonly known as QEH) is an independent school for boys in Clifton, Bristol, England founded in 1586. Stephen Holliday has served as Headmaster since 2000, having succeeded Dr Richard Gliddon. Her Majesty Queen...
Tollgate House
Tollgate House, completed in 1975, was an 19 floor, 77 metres/252 feet tall office building in the city of Bristol, England. It was the second tallest building in Bristol (after St Mary Redcliffe church) until the completion in 1981 of Castlemead ...
Stapleton Road railway station
Stapleton Road railway station lies in the inner city area of Easton, Bristol, England.
It is a railway station on the Severn Beach Line; although it is also served by hourly trains between Gloucester and Westbury.
The station platform has a long...
Avonmouth Bridge
The Avonmouth Bridge is a road bridge that carries the M5 motorway over the River Avon into Somerset near Bristol, England. The main span is 538 ft (164 m) long, and the bridge is 4,554 ft (1,388 m) long, with an air draught above mean high water...
Colston's Collegiate School
Colston's School (formerly known as Colston's Collegiate School) is an independent co-educational school in Bristol, England. It is located on two sites, the Upper and Lower Schools, in Stapleton, a north-eastern suburb of the city, approximately...
Bristol Hippodrome
The Bristol Hippodrome (grid reference ST590729) is a theatre in the centre of Bristol with seating on three levels giving a capacity of 1951. It frequently features West End theatre shows when they tour the UK as well as the yearly traditional...
Bath Spa railway station
Bath Spa railway station is the principal railway station in the city of Bath, in South West England.
Bath Spa station was built in 1840 for the Great Western Railway by Brunel and is a grade II listed building. It is in an asymmetrical Tudor style...
Oldfield Park railway station
Oldfield Park railway station is a suburban railway station in the city of Bath in BANES, England. It serves the mainly residential areas around Moorland Road, in southern Bath.
It is located on the London-Bristol and Bristol-Southampton trunk...
St Mary le Port Church, Bristol
St Mary le Port is a ruined parish church in the centre of Bristol, England. It is said to have been founded in Saxon times, and rebuilt and enlarged between the 11th and 16th centuries.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries the church was a very...
Castlemead
Castlemead is the tallest high-rise building in Bristol, England. Designed by A.J. Hines and started in 1973, work was halted by a recession in the property market and it was completed in 1981. The building has a roof height of 80 metres or 262 feet...
Whitefield's Tabernacle, Bristol
Whitefield's Tabernacle, a church in Penn Street, Bristol, opened in 1753 for the followers of George Whitefield.
It was replaced in 1957 by the Whitefield Memorial Tabernacle, in Muller Road, Horfield, Bristol, now the home of Horfield United...
Whitefield's Tabernacle, Kingswood
Whitefield's Tabernacle (grid reference ST648738) is a Congregational church (now United Reformed) in Kingswood, a town on the eastern edge of Bristol where George Whitefield preached in the open air to coal miners. The name refers to two buildings...
Clifton Rocks Railway
The Clifton Rocks Railway was an underground funicular railway in Bristol, linking Clifton at the top to Hotwells and Bristol Harbour at the bottom of the Avon Gorge in a tunnel cut through the limestone cliffs. The upper station is close to Brunel...
Ashton Gate
Ashton Gate Stadium is a stadium in Ashton Gate, Bristol, England, and is the home of Bristol City F.C. Located in the south-west of the city, just south of the River Avon, it has an all-seated capacity of 21,497, with an effective capacity for...
Filton Abbey Wood railway station
Filton Abbey Wood railway station, (near Bristol, England) was opened on 11 March 1996, replacing the original Filton station which stands to the north of the current site.
In the Strategic Rail Authority’s 2005/06 financial year, Filton Abbey Wood...
Embleton Primary School
Embleton Primary School is a Local Education Authority primary school and nursery in Southmead, an outer suburb of Bristol, England. Its headteacher is Mrs C Whitaker.
According to Ofsted the school is in "an area of significant social disadvantage"...
Bristol Community Church
Bristol Community Church (formerly the Bristol New Covenant Church) is a charismatic church located in Kingswood, Bristol, England.
The Bristol New Covenant Church was set up in 1984 by Dave Jones, a pastor from Bath; before its foundation some...
British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum (grid reference ST597725) was a museum in Bristol, United Kingdom exploring the history of the British Empire and the effect of British colonial rule on the rest of the world.
The museum opened in 2002 in...
Patchway railway station
Patchway railway station is a minor railway station on the outskirts of the village of Little Stoke near the town of Patchway, South Gloucestershire, England. The station is located at street level at Station Road in Little Stoke. It is a stop on...
Memorial Stadium
The Memorial Stadium, also commonly known by its previous name of The Memorial Ground, is a sports ground in Bristol, England, dedicated to the memory of the rugby union players of the city killed during World War I. It is currently the home ground...
Harry Stoke
Harry Stoke is a village in the parish of Stoke Gifford, South Gloucestershire, England.
There were 3 manors in the parish of Stoke Gifford. The Giffards and Berkeleys held Stoke and Walls. Harry Stoke was a separate manor held by Aldred in Saxon...
The Mall Galleries
The Mall Bristol (formerly The Galleries Shopping Centre,The Mall Galleries and more commonly still referred to as The Galleries) is a shopping mall situated in the Broadmead shopping centre in Bristol city centre, England. Functioning as one of the...
Westbury College Gatehouse
Westbury College Gatehouse (grid reference ST573775) is a 15th-century gatehouse to the 13th-century College of Priests located in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, England, and now a National Trust property. It is a grade I listed building.
The Gatehouse...
The Old Duke
The Old Duke is a famous Jazz and Blues venue and pub situated on King Street, Bristol, England. Live music is played every night of the week, admission is free and it hosts an annual Jazz Festival. The Old Duke is considered to be one of the most...
Cabot Tower
Cabot Tower is a tower in Bristol, England, situated in a public park on Brandon Hill, between the city centre, Clifton and Hotwells. It was built in 1897-98 in memory of John Cabot, 400 years after he set sail in the Matthew from Bristol and landed...
