Valentine Bridge, Bristol, On Triangular Walk
Walking Bristol
New City Walk Booklets
In 2002 Bristol City Council and Bristol Group Ramblers collaborated to produce a delightful publication called Bristol Backs Discovering Bristol on Foot. This book contained 27 walks around the city, all over varying length and all taking in various features of this great city. The book was intended to be sold, as it had been lovingly produced to a high quality. Unfortunately, this meant that when stocks began to run low, the cost of re-production proved to be prohibitive. It seemed a real shame that access to these walks could be denied to so many people, so it was decided to re-produce a selection of these in a smaller format. The beauty of this new publication is that it will be free for all to enjoy..
Trying to decide which walks to exclude was very difficult and this led us to producing two booklets, one for the north and east of the city and the other for the south and central. You may wish to pick up the one that is local to you or both of them to explore other parts of the city. Although a number of walks are in or close to the city centre a conscious effort has been made to take these walks to the majority of the population out in the suburbs.
There are some little gems in the most unexpected of places. So please, go out and walk around your city and enjoy its little hidden pleasures and explore those alleys and lanes that you might not have known existed and if it means that you occasionally leave the car at home, it will have all been worthwhile.
Contents
Central and South Bristol
- Walk 1 - Plaques of Central Bristol ---- 2 miles
- Walk 2 - Sculpture Trail ---- 2.5 Miles
- Walk 3 - Brunels Footsteps ---- 3.5 miles
- Walk 4 - Clifton Squares ---- 4/5 miles Linear
- Walk 5 - Bedminster and Southville ---- 5 miles
- Walk 6 - South Bristol Parks ---- 5/6miles
North and East Bristol
- Walk 1 - Gas Lamps and Cut Throats ---- 5 miles
- Walk 2 - Dudham Down ---- 5 Miles
- Walk 3 - Royate Hill ---- 6 miles
- Walk 4 - Montpellier - Purdown ---- 6 miles Linear
- Walk 5 - Penpole ---- 5 miles
Neil Burlton, with Gill Davies, Geoff Woolf, Julie Boston, Peter Gould and Jean Waller have helped to update and check walk the routes.