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Bristol is a city and ceremonial county in South West England on the River Avon, with a short coastline on the Bristol Channel. Its top sights are the Clifton Suspension Bridge over the Avon Gorge, Brunel's SS Great Britain in the harbour, Bristol Cathedral, St Mary Redcliffe and the museums of M Shed and Clifton.
Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and became a county corporate in 1373. From the 13th to the 18th centuries it was among the top three English cities after London in tax receipts, and as a major port it was a starting place for early voyages to the New World. At the height of its slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas.
Bristol had an estimated 494,399 people in 2024, making it the most populous city in the region. The port has moved to Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as cultural and heritage centres. Its economy is built on creative media, electronics and aerospace, and it has two universities.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, spans the Avon Gorge between Clifton and Leigh Woods, 75 m above high water. Built to a design based on Isambard Kingdom Brunel's, it opened on 8 December 1864, has a main span of 214 m and is a Grade I listed toll bridge.
SS Great Britain is a museum ship in the dry dock in Bristol, where she was built. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, she was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1853 and the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic. She returned to Bristol in 1970.
M Shed is a free museum of Bristol's history on Prince's Wharf beside the Floating Harbour in Bristol, in a dockside transit shed that once held the Bristol Industrial Museum. Opened in June 2011, it shows about 3,000 objects, including items on the city's role in the slave trade.
Queen Square in the centre of Bristol, is a 2.4-hectare Georgian square. At its centre stands an equestrian statue of William III by John Michael Rysbrack, erected in 1736. A dual carriageway crossed it from 1937 until National Lottery funding in 1999 restored its approximate 1817 layout.
Bristol Cathedral in Bristol, began as St Augustine's Abbey, founded in 1140, and became a cathedral in 1542. Its 14th-century east end is a hall church with aisles as high as the choir, while the nave was rebuilt in Gothic Revival style by George Edmund Street. It is Grade I listed.
St Mary Redcliffe in the Redcliffe district of Bristol, is one of the country's finest and largest parish churches and a masterpiece of English Gothic. Its spire rises 84 m, and Queen Elizabeth I reportedly called it the fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England.
Corn Street is one of the four medieval cross streets of Bristol, and was the centre of the city's banking from the 18th century. It holds The Exchange, built in 1741–43 by John Wood the Elder, with four bronze tables called nails in front, and St Nicholas Market is held in and around it.
Bristol Old Vic is the theatre company based at the Theatre Royal on King Street in Bristol. Built from 1764 to 1766, the Theatre Royal is the oldest continually operating theatre in the English-speaking world, and with the 1744 Coopers' Hall it forms a Grade I listed building.
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in Clifton, Bristol, is a free museum run by the city council in a Grade II* listed Edwardian Baroque building. Its designated collections cover geology, Eastern art and Bristol's history, including English delftware, and it hosted a Banksy show in 2009.
Cabot Tower stands in the public park on Brandon Hill in Bristol, between the city centre, Clifton and Hotwells. Built in 1897 to 1898 for the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's voyage from Bristol, the 32 m red sandstone tower has a spiral stair and two viewing platforms.
The Wills Memorial Building near the top of Park Street in Bristol, is a neo-Gothic landmark of the University of Bristol by Sir George Oatley. Begun in 1915 and opened in 1925, its tower stands 65.5 m tall, and it is seen as one of the last great Gothic buildings in England.
Blaise Castle Estate is a public park near Henbury in Bristol, laid out by Humphry Repton in the early 19th century. It includes Blaise Castle House, an 18th-century mansion run as a museum with costume and toys, and Blaise Castle, a Gothic folly built in 1766.
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