Aerial photographs and tourist attractions of Bristol, England,
(Great Britain) United Kingdom taken on 5 August 2011. (Front Cover
view of the Floating Harbour, Bristol City Centre looking in a
south-easterly direction.) Tourist Attractions Ashton Court Estate
Country Park and Mansion (850 acres of woodland and grassland
offers ballooning, the International Bristol Balloon Fiesta,
International Kite Festival, deer park, golf courses, horse riding,
market, miniature railway, mountain biking, orienteering and 5
kilometre runs around the estate) pages 12-16] Avon Gorge (rises
about 100 metres above the tidal River Avon is a Site of Special
Scientific Interest SSSI] part of which is a National Nature
Reserve. Natural cliffs and quarry exposures showing complete local
succession of Carboniferous limestone make it a historic geological
site with rock screes, scrub, pockets of grassland and adjacent
woodland supporting an exceptional number of nationally rare and
scarce plant species. The ground-cover flora is extremely diverse.
Unique to the Gorge are Bristol Rock-cress Arabis stricta and two
Whitebeams: Sorbus bristoliensis and S. wilmottiana. ) page 3]
Bristol Cathedral has most likely been located at its site for over
a thousand years and is a major example of a hall church in the UK.
It originated in the Augustine Abbey dedicated to St Augustine the
Great and founded in 1140 by Robert FitzHarding, a wealthy
merchant, Provost of Bristol and Lord of Berkeley. The Chapter
House is Norman and the Choir Medieval with many interesting
carvings. page 3] Cabot Tower on the parkland of Brandon Hill is a
105ft tower built in 1897 to commemorate John Cabot's famous voyage
four hundred years earlier) page 4] Outdoor Amphitheatre on the
Harbourside hosts the annual Bristol Festival for a wide range of
talent, cuisine and exhibitions and is popular for skateboarders
and BMX riders. page 3] Peros Bridge, (a footbridge named after
Pero Jones approx.1753 - 1798] the slave of John Pinney 1740-1818,
] plantation owner on the Caribbean island of Nevis and sugar
merchant based in Bristol after 1784. The Trans-Atlantic Slave
Trade was of crucial importance both economically and socially to
Bristol) page 3] Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Victorian engineering
masterpieces: The SS Great Britain (on display in the original
Great Western Dockyard where she was first built and launched in
1843 as the largest ship in the world which was also the first
screw-propelled, ocean-going, iron-hulled steam ship) page 3] The
Clifton Suspension Bridge (originally designed by Brunel but sadly
abandoned due to a lack of funds and not completed until 1864,
after his death) page 2] The Great Western Railway (GWR) (of which
Brunel was Chief Engineer at 27 years of age and Bristol Temple
Meads Station) page 3] and St. Mary's Redcliffe Church (described
as the fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England
by Queen Elizabeth 1st) page 5] The Floating Harbour (designed in
1802 by William Jessop a famous civil engineer, it opened in 1809
as a non-tidal harbour and help secure for two centuries Bristol's
growth as a commercial port. Closed in 1975 it was then regenerated
for leisure, commerce and residences) pages 3-8] The Matthew (a
replica of the wooden caravel ship that John Cabot sailed in from
Bristol when he landed in Newfoundland, North America in 1497)
Although some authorities regard Cabot's landing as discovering
North America, there is clear evidence that the Vikings had much
earlier landed in Labrador. page 4] The Wills Memorial Tower of
Bristol University (Commissioned in 1912 by George Alfred Wills and
Henry Herbert Wills, of the Bristol tobacco company, W. D. and H.
O. Wills. The building is a memorial to their father, Henry Overton
Wills III, who was the first Chancellor of Bristol University. At
215 feet it was designed by George Herbert Oatley...) page 4]
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