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Gateway to the West. Bristol-The Ideal Tourist Centre • 1S Bristol-the ideal tourist centre. Gateway to the West. Bristol Zoo has all the popular attractions for young and old and is famous not only for its animal inmates, but also for its magnificently kept gardens and flower beds. Indeed there is so much in Bristol itself to attract the visitor that it is easy to forget that Bristol is also the capital of the West Country and a major tourist centre for the counties of Avon, Gloucester, Wiltshire and Somerset. South Wales too is easily accessible. On the very threshold are some of Christmas Steps Avon Gorge & Clifton Suspension Bridge St. Mary Redcliffe the loveliest and most unspoilt scenes in the whole of the British Isles. Bath, Wells, Glastonbury, Cheddar, the Cotswolds and the Mendips can all be reached by an easy drive or by the ample country bus services. The M4, M5 and M6 motorway system makes travel to Bristol from · London, Birmingham, Manchester and the North a simple and speedy matter. The Council House Quarter Jacks at Christ Church Issued by the City Public Relations Officer The Council House Floating Harbour Blaise Hamle,t College Green, Bristol BSl STR. P.& S. Dept, A6909 ' eSheffield Noting ha me Bristol the ideal tourist centre port of Bristol sailed William Redcliffe, esteemed by Queen .Leicester Norwich• Today Windsor Terrace, Bristol, with a population Cornwallis Gardens togetheJ· Penn and the thousands of Elizabeth l as the 'fairest, .Birmingham of nearly half a million has earl y American settlers. That goodliest and most famous with the 19th century Royal been called City of Flowers, gave yet another title to the city parish church in England'. In Cambridge. York Crescent a nd the Paragon City of Churches, City of - birth place of America. the churchyard is Chatterton's stand as monuments to a more Adventure and the City of Many of the land marks of Monument, the 19th century elegant age. Contrasts. Each of these Bristol that these men knew so poet who lost his life so eOxford But the beauties o f Bristol descriptions is valid - yet well are stiII here today to tragically early. He was born a London. are not all man made. Clifton Bristol is more than these. It is excite the imagination of the few yards away in what is now and Durdham Downs cover a city of History, and at the 20th century tourist. Alongside called Chatterton House in 442 acres of rolling down-land same time, a city of the Future. the cobbled streets of the old Redcliffe Way. The centre of a mere four miles from the city City of History city docks you wi ll find the Bristol is replete with ancient centre. Nearby, the Avon floods In 1497 from the city ancient Llandoger Trow churches including All Saints, through a limestone gorge, docks of Bristol Jdhn Cabot and Tavern. Once a drinking den of St Nicholas, St Johns, St Mary unique in being within the his son Sebastian set off on a pirates it is sa id to be 'The Spy Le Porte and Christchurch. precincts of a large city. It is voyage of discovery to the G lass' haunt of Long John Away from the bustle of the spanned by Clifton suspension northern shores of the Silver in Stevenson's 'Treasu re centre of Bristol is Clifton bridge, built in 1864, and a American Continent. Hundreds Island'. Less than a mile away which began to develop into a monument to Brunel's of years later from the same stands the church of St Mary residential suburb in the l 780's. engineering skill. St. Peter's Church Christmas Steps Nails in Com Street Polar Bear, Bristol Zoo Cabot Tower Clifton Cathedral Lotd Mayor's Coach .
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