Bristol is the informal capital of the West Country of England, with an estimated population of 433,100 (2009) and a greater urban area of 1,070,000 (2007), it is the 8th largest city in the UK. In 1155 it received the Royal Charter and it was granted county status in 1373 . Closeby cities to Bristol are historic Bath, Gloucester and Cardiff. Bordering are the countiesof Somerset and Gloucestershire. Paleolithic archeological fartefacts in the area have proven that there has been a living community in the Bristol area from roughly 60,000 years.
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The city of Bristol was created around the short coastline of the River Severn Estuary and the River Avon. This gave rise to a substantial boating and shippinghistory. In the thirteenth century, shipbuilding and manufacturing were its primary industries and this unfolded to doing business with Ireland and Iceland in the fifteenth century, by the sixteenth century, Bristol was doing business further afield to Spain and the Americas.
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Bristol Cathedral dates back to 1140 and was formerly the Abbey of St Augustine. business in slavery amongst UK and the Americas was established in the seventeenth century. Slave trading was abolished in 1807. Bristol Temple Meads Station and Clifton Suspension Bridge were both composed and made by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Therefore, there is a strong link between the man and the city. Furthermore, in 2002 the Victorian engineer was voted one of the most influential people in British history.The University of Bristol was created in 1909 and later in 1992 the University of the West of England came from the city’s polytechnic, which is now one of the country’s top learning centres for design and media studies.The centre of the city was bombed heavily in World War II by the German Luftwaffe in a try to to lame the shipping routes of England in the country’s South West. The city was reconstructed in the 1960s. The rebuilt comprised tower blocks and road expansion.
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Bristol is an fantastic base for visiting the West Country and is a culturally vivacious city, with a wide potpourri of attractions and events.Attractions:-* At-Bristol takes the visitor through how our surroundings work. Plus explores is a mixture of particular exhibitions – from animation to flight, illusions and sport!* Bristol Zoo Gardens is the fifth oldest zoo outside a capital city and also the 5th oldest in the world.* Blue Reef Aquarium – contains sealife from seahorses and puffer fish to living corals and tropical sharks.* Brunel’s SS Great Britain – the world’s first screw propeller-driven, iron hulled, steam-powered passenger liner. The ship was built by Brunel in 1843 and now preserved in a dry-dock next to the city’s floating harbour.* Clifton Suspenson Bridge, maybe Bristol’s best known landmark, Brunel’s 19th century suspension bridge strings the spectacular Avon Gorge at a height of 75m.* Cabot Circus – Visitors to the centre of Bristol are provided with over 120 shops, with 15 major flagship stores.* Bristol Museum and Art Gallery – the chief museum in Bristol.* Ferry Boat Company – in the day there is an around trip tour; a hop on/off or is good for getting from A to B and to numerous harbour-side attractions.* Pirate Walks is a 1 hour guided walking circuit of Bristol’s historic harbour-side. Tours of Bristol’s 16th, 17th and 18th century Maritime History are available on foot.* Clifton Downs and Observatory, is in The Downs which is a huge open space inside Bristol. It has panoramas over the suspension bridge and the Avon Gorge. At the top of the Downs is the Observatory, which houses a camera obscura and a cave which meanders downwardly through a cliff face to an observation point.*Bristol to Bath Railway Cycle Path runs on a disused railway line, which goes from central Bristol to Bath.