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Bristol (IPA: [ˈbrɪstəl]) is a city, unitary authority and ceremonial county in South West England, 105 miles (169 km) west of London.
With an approximate population of 400,000, and metropolitan area of 550,000, it is England's sixth, and the United Kingdom's ninth, most populous city, one of England's core cities and the most populous city in South West England. It received a royal charter in 1155 and was granted county status in 1373. For half a millennium it was the second or third largest English city, until the rapid rise of Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham in the Industrial Revolution in the later part of the 18th century. It borders on the unitary districts of Bath and North East Somerset (BANES), North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, between the cities of Bath, Gloucester and Newport, and has a short coastline on the estuary of the River Severn which flows into the Bristol Channel.
Bristol is one of the centres of culture, employment and education in the region. From its earliest days, its prosperity has been linked to that of the Port of Bristol, the commercial port, which was in the city centre but has now moved to the Bristol Channel coast at Avonmouth and Portbury. In more recent years the economy has been built on the aerospace industry, and the city centre docks have been regenerated as a centre of heritage and culture. more about Bristol...
Bristol Temple Meads railway station is a major rail transport hub in Bristol, England. It is situated less than one mile south-east of the city centre, and is the main station for central Bristol. Bristol's other main-line station, Bristol Parkway, is on the northern outskirts of the city.
In the Strategic Rail Authority’s 2005/06 financial year, Bristol Temple Meads was ranked as the 37th most-used station in the UK. Compared to 39th in 2004/05. Passenger numbers are likely to pass the 7 million mark in 2007/08. more about Bristol Temple Meads railway station...
Gloucester Road is well known for its pubs and restaurants, and is known as one of the last remaining local high streets in the country and is well used by local residents. In addition to the independently run shops such as Scoopaway, La Ruca, Gardener's Patch and Harvest, recent years has seen several supermarket chains opening stores in the area. More about Bishopston...
Sebastian Cabot (c. 1484 – 1557, or soon after), originally Sebastiano Caboto, was an Italian explorer, probably born in Venice. Sebastian Cabot told Englishman Richard Eden that he was born in Bristol and carried to Venice at four years of age. However, he also told Gasparo Contarini, the Venetian ambassador at the court of Charles V that he was Venetian, educated in England. Contarini noted it in his diary.
The account of Cabot's journeys written by himself has been lost. All that remains of his personal work is a map of the world drawn in 1544; one copy of this was found in Bavaria, and is still preserved in the Bibliotheque National in Paris. This map is especially important for the light it throws on the first journey of John Cabot. The accounts of the journeys of John and Sebastian Cabot were collected by Richard Hakluyt. read more about Sebastian Cabot...
- ...that Horseshoe Bend, Shirehampton, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Bristol, contains the largest population of True Service-trees in England?
- ...that the Council House, Bristol features a blue and gold wall clock, encircled by the signs of the zodiac and equipped with its own wind indicator?
- ... that the expression ’pay on the nail’ comes from the practice of closing deals by payment on brass tables called nails, which can still be seen at The Exchange, Bristol?
- ...that the Royal West of England Academy housed the Bristol Aeroplane Company and the U.S. Army during World War II?
- ... that English lower-league football team Bristol Rovers once beat the Netherlands national football team 3-2?
- ...that Britain's first girls' reform school was set up in 1854 by Mary Carpenter, with the financial help of the poet Lord Byron's widow, at Bristol's Red Lodge
- ...that when Arno's Court Triumphal Arch was built in 1760, it incorporated statues from the Bristol city gates which were being demolished at the time?
- ...that the Royal Fort in Bristol was built with façades in Baroque, Palladian and Rococo styles because it was a compromise between the designs of three different architects?
- ...that the site of the Observatory on Clifton Down in Bristol is likely to have been used as a lookout post since at least the Iron Age?
- ...that Bristol Byzantine was an architectural style used for industrial buildings in Bristol between 1850 and 1880?
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- Jarrit Smyth (Bristol MP, mine owner etc) ? and/or called Sir Jarrit Smith, 1st Baronet of Long Ashton (born c.1692; died 24 January 1783)
- Redlinks on Grade II* listed buildings in Bristol
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- Merge and tidy competing templates Areas of Bristol and Districts of Bristol, and organise it in some sort of logical manner. Possibly have sections for wards, constituencies and neighbourhoods in it.
- St Mary Redcliffe was described by Queen Elizabeth I as "the fairest, goodliest, and most famous parish church in England.
- Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.-Edmund Burke in his Speech to the Electors of Bristol (1774-11-03)
- In May 2007 proposals were announced to build about 753,000 square feet net of homes, offices and businesses, in the St Pauls area. The development, if approved, may include a 600ft, 40-storey, tower next to the M32 motorway as a new entrance to the city. The tower would be a similar shape to the Swiss Re "gherkin" tower in London.
