All nineteen stops.
Harbour to hilltop, cathedral to Cabot Circus. Click any stop for its full essay, nearby stops and practical info.
Broad Quay and Princes Street
Where the circuit begins. A wide cobbled quay at the inland head of the harbour, backed by the Arnolfini and the Watersh...
We The Curious
The science museum on the harbour edge. Hands-on, genuinely good for kids, quietly clever for adults, and with the best ...
Hotwell Road
The long curve along the north bank of the Floating Harbour, under the shadow of Clifton and on the way to the ss Great ...
Spike Island
Not an island, technically, but a narrow strip of working harbourside between the Floating Harbour and the New Cut - gal...
ss Great Britain
Isambard Kingdom Brunel's groundbreaking iron ship, a marvel of Victorian engineering that changed the world, now restin...
Bristol Zoo Project and the old Clifton gardens
The zoo Bristolians grew up with closed in 2022. Its successor, the Bristol Zoo Project on the outskirts of the city, ha...
Clifton Village
The handsome Georgian hilltop where Bristol's eighteenth-century merchants built their pale-stone crescents. Independent...
Victoria Square
A quiet Clifton green ringed by pale Regency terraces. If Bristol has a stately living room, this is it - more of a deto...
Victoria Rooms
The imposing neoclassical concert hall at the top of Park Street, now home to the University of Bristol music faculty - ...
City Museum and Art Gallery
The free civic museum at the top of Park Street - Egyptian mummies, Bristol glass, dinosaur bones, and the best wet-weat...
College Green and Park Street
The civic lawn between the Cathedral and City Hall, and the steep shopping street that drops from Clifton back down to t...
Bristol Hippodrome
The city's 1912 variety theatre - West End tours, a peerless Edwardian interior, and the venue where Laurel and Hardy pl...
Broadmead and The Horsefair
Bristol's pedestrianised high-street core. Wesley's New Room, the Galleries, and the city's main Christmas market run al...
Cabot Circus
The glassy 2008 shopping quarter built around a glazed canopy big enough to be a landmark in its own right. Bristol's ma...
Newgate and Castle Park
The green wound where medieval Bristol Castle used to stand - flattened in the Civil War, bombed again in 1940, and now ...
Bristol Bridge
The original crossing that gave the city its name - Brycgstow, the place by the bridge. Not a landmark in itself, but th...
Victoria Street
The Victorian-warehouse spine running from Bristol Bridge to Temple Meads - old merchants' counting-houses, new glassy o...
Temple Meads
Bristol's main railway station. Brunel's original 1841 terminus still stands, now used as a bus station, and the current...
St Mary Redcliffe
The medieval church that Queen Elizabeth I called 'the fairest, the goodliest and most famous parish church in England.'...