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Bristol
Bristol, South West · population 472,465 · Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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Days out & attractions in Bristol
Days out around Bristol – lakes, viewpoints, hills, nature reserves and more, including 5 in Bristol itself. Each comes with a description, photo, address and map where available.
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🏞️ Lakes & lochs
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🌄 Viewpoints
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⛰️ Hills & peaks
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🌿 Nature reserves
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🏛️ Museums
The Red Lodge Museum
City Centre · 0.6 miles
Elizabethan house and museum
KSC
City Centre · 0.6 miles
We The Curious
Canon's Marsh · 0.6 miles
Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery
Tyndall's Park · 0.6 miles
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🌳 Parks & gardens
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🗿 Monuments & memorials
Pedestal of the former statue of Edward Colston (pulled down during Black Lives Matter protests on 7 June 2020)
City Centre · 0.6 miles
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🏚️ Ruins
St Peter's Church
Finzels Reach · 0.1 miles
Bombed and ruined in the Bristol Blitz and maintained as a monument to the civilian war dead of Bristol.
Saint Mary-le-Port Church
Finzels Reach · 0.1 miles
Ruined parish church bombed in the Second World War. Scheduled Ancient Monument.
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🏺 Archaeological sites
Temple Church
Temple Quarter · 0.1 miles
The ruined remains of Temple Church, also recorded as Holy Cross Church, lie in the Redcliffe area of Bristol near the district known as Temple Quarter. The site originally hosted a round-nave preceptory built by the Knights Templar after Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, granted the land in the early-mid-12th century. Following the suppression of the Templars, the Knights Hospitaller took control in 1313 and, by the early 14th century, the building was serving the parish of Temple Fee. Reconstruction on a rectangular plan began around that time and was finished by 1460, when a leaning west tower was added. Ownership passed to the Crown during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1540, and the church later became part of the Bristol Corporation’s holdings. Bombing during the Bristol Blitz of 24/25 November 1940 left the structure an empty shell; most of the arcades were removed as unsafe, though several fittings survived elsewhere in the city. The building is now a Grade II* listed structure and a scheduled monument, owned by the Diocese of Bristol and placed under English Heritage guardianship in 1958. Excavations in 1960 revealed the outline of the original 12th-century church, which has been marked on the ground in stone. A major conservation project between 2021 and 2023 restored the site, allowing public access for the first time in over three decades. As an archaeological site, it offers insight into medieval monastic architecture, the legal privileges of the Templar estate, and the later Perpendicular alterations that shaped its present form.
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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🖼️ Galleries
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Stokes Croft · 0.6 miles
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🐠 Aquariums
Bristol Aquarium
Canon's Marsh · 0.6 miles
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📸 Landmarks & sights
Tramway Rail
Redcliffe · 0.6 miles
A fragment of nearby tramway hit by a second world war bomb.
Mayflower
Wapping Wharf · 0.6 miles
Mayflower is an 1861 steam tug. It is in working condition and operates trips some weekend in the summer
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🕳️ Caves
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🛝 Playgrounds
Data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Distances are as the crow flies from Bristol.
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