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Blue Reef Aquarium H5 Cabot Circus P2 CREATE B7 Red Lodge H3 Shopping Centre Bond Street N2 High Street M4 Queen Charlotte Street M5 St. Paul’s Road F2 Union Street M3 & IMAX 3D Camera Obscura A3 Crown Court K4 Register Office M4 University of Bristol Broadmead N2 King Street M5 Queen ’s Road F3 Temple Gate P6 Upper Maudlin Street K2 Bristol Cathedral H5 Central Library H5 Folk House H4 RWA Art Gallery F2 Students’ Union E3 Broad Street M3 Lewins Mead K3 Queen Square M5 Temple Quay P5 Victoria Street N5 Bristol Hippodrome K4 City Museum & Art Gallery G3 Georgian House G4 St. George ’s Bristol G4 Victoria Rooms F2 Christmas Steps K3 Millennium Square H6 Redcliffe Way N6 Temple Way P5 Welsh Back M5 Bristol Old Vic M5 City of Bristol College G5 John Wesley ’s Chapel N2 St. Mary Redcliffe N6 Wills Memorial Building G3 Clifton Down Road C3 Narrow Quay K5 Regent Street D4 The Centre Promenade K5 Whiteladies Road F2 Bristol Zoo Gardens B1 Clifton Suspension Bridge A4 Magistrates’ Court M2 St. Nicholas Markets M4 Watershed K5 Clifton Triangle F3 Nelson Street M3 Royal York Crescent B4 The Grove M6 Wine Street M3
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A N K R OA Castle Park Open Top Bus R N K D D Berkeley R O A E O O S The Grand ET W T T E O B R R R S E T R Y Square E Hotel S L T B Red Lodge
S C Guildhall NE O L R I St. Peters T I Hotel P West End W N F C Victoria T U T WC S A O E E M Register Church N E T A S H C E L A R Crown L S C Square Hotel L T E S A R R P R S Office 8 & 9 O T T P E K E S Court R 8 & 9 A R T R a K O T Bristol E D E M L D Y O E L R T H Bristol United D A A Colston 500
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S 16 D C C UR 7 Centre Cycle Works LIFF e O Bordeaux E PO Hotwells RB W RTWALL h A and Café THE GROV AY LANE T 500 H Brunel’s Cross Quay Arnolfini E Redcliffe 8 & 9 NG 19 Temple TI ss Great Britain Harbour Bridge Chatterton Brunel’s Old Open Top Bus OA Thekla Meads FL & The Brunel Ferry Harbourside House Station Quakers 44 Station Baltic Wharf Institute Redcliffe AY A40 6 The Bristol Burial RED CLIFFE W 6 10 Marina Prince Street T Lloyds TSB Amphitheatre Caves E E 15 Packet Boat Trips 18 Ground N M Bridge LA Maritime P D Express by L Heritage St Mary EA E Open Top Bus M 6 Holiday Inn G Centre REDCLIFFE PARADE Redcliffe FE A 8 F T W Ramada I L E 3 C
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WC AD This is your free map to help you find your way around Bristol city centre O RD C R Welcome Clifton Y L IE E IF R L T TH Down L O GU A N Bristol Zoo V E D Clifton and plan your journey. For full details of what's on in Bristol during your G O AD Gardens ID W RO R N L College B CI CE 1 8 & 9 C 1 O visit including theatre, concerts and events, where to stay and eat out, L L E G E R O A or how to get to your destination, log on to www.VisitBristol.co.uk or D call 0333 321 0101.
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C L A L IV I C F R E T P O A leisurely stroll around Bristol’s Floating Harbour is a great 5 Access to Underfall Yard Harbourside N Millennium Square / Anchor Square – home to At-Bristol
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D A Clifton way to spend a morning or afternoon. Follow the orange route N and Blue Reef Aquarium and IMAX 3D. At-Bristol is located O Y C U nderfa ll Yard is a working boatyard and well worth a visit. N L Walk W G I E F overleaf and explore Bristol’s past and present. in the remodelled Great Western Railway Goods shed. N R T O O However, some of the work undertaken he re occasionally S
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P requires the yard to be closed to visitors. When this happens, A R 2 2 K Bristol’s Harbour has been at the heart of the city ’s trade and 6 Amphitheatre – the stone tow er here was originally the Avon follow the alternative route along Cumberland Road as shown
R Gorge O base for a steam cran e , scrapped in 196 9. A industry for 1,000 years. W ith its roots as a medieval tidal port ,
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8 & 9 the current harbour was opened as a non-tidal Floating Harbour K R A P TON in 1809 after massive engineering works by canal engineer 7 Canons Marsh – this successfully regenerated area was IF CL 13 Baltic Wharf – once the home of sever al timber yards, this
once occupied by transit sheds and a railway good s yard. Christ William Jessop. CL stretch offers some of the city’s best views of the Georgian IF TO
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M T U T B F Stepped access at Harbour Inlet Camera Obscura OR option to hop on a ferry at several points ( see overleaf), T is open daily. UF EA O B a P N O Observatory Hill which will make the route shorter, and quicker.
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A 15 Albion Docks and Bristol Marina – a thriving dockyard W present. An alternative route is shown overleaf that will bring Y BRIDGE ROAD N ET N A IO E S TR 4 N S from 1820 to 1977, boatbuilding and repairs are still E D R Look out for the followin g features as you make your way: you back to the water along Cathedral Walk and Anchor Road. P N The S LA D T U OR S P Rodney 8 & 9 carried out here.
L IL Hotel H T 1 St Augustin e’s Reach – named after the Abbey church of 9 N H Capricorn Quay – the large, roofless, gas purifier houses SIO E 16 Brunel’s ss Great Britain – the world’s first iron passenger
St Augustine (now Bristol Cathedral). The Reach is located here are the last remaining structures of the M Clifton A Open liner launched from here in 1843 to return as a derelict hulk L L where tVhe river Frome enters the Floating Harbour since Canon’s Marsh Gas Works and are Listed. Soon to be put Suspension AL L Top Bus M T S in 1970. Restored to her former glory, this great ship is no w Bridge WE its diversion in 1247. back in to use as offices.
Library a unique visitor experience. Clifton Village 2 E shed – the last transit shed along the Reach is h ome to 10 E T Poole’s Wharf – a working dock until recently, now home AC E PL RE Royal York T 17 AN S the Watershed Media Centre and Bristol Tourist M Shed , a m useum of Bristol life – opening in spring NI A to many waterside residents. DO RI Crescent LE TO CA IC Information Centre. 2011. V T S EN ES ESC 4 C CR 4 Avon Gorge IN K 11 CREATE – a unique environment centre featur ing exhibitions , R R P YO S t N L E r Hotel D YA AR 3 1 8 Prince Street Bridge – was built in 1878. This hydraulic u G Narrow Quay – this side of the Reach, together with Broad gallery, cafe and demonstration Ecohome. Entrance is free. RO
o K S R WALLIS GROVE I O RN C O Y CO L L N I Quay, was the main t rading wharf of the port for centuries. s win g b ridge is fully operational and swings regularly i n the n H e o H
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T 0117 917 2300 0117 974 7399 Bristol Ferry Boat Company 0117 927 3416 G 0117 922 3686 R A R 5 I I V L www.arnolfini.org.uk www.bristolzoo.org.uk www.colstonhall.org
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V O Hotwells N At-Bristol Broadmead and CREATE Bristol Packet Boat Trips 01 17 926 8157
HO TWELL the Mall Bristol ROAD 0845 345 1235 H 0117 925 0505 First (local bus customer service centre) 0845 6020 156 www.at-bristol.org.uk 0117 929 056 9 C U www.createbristol.org M National Express 08 717 818 181 B www.bristolbroadmead.co.uk E R LA Blue Reef Aquarium www.themall.co.uk N D National Rail Enquiries 08457 484 950 and IMAX 3D S pike Island Artspace
B Brunel's ss Great Britain ASIN RO 500 0117 929 8929 NHS Direct 08 45 46 47 6 AD 6 0117 929 2266
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