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Old Market is a Conservation Area of national significance, to the east of the city centre in Bristol, England. [1] Old Market Street and West Street form the central axis of the area, which is approximately bounded by New Street and Lawfords Gate to the north, Trinity Road and Trinity Street to the east, Unity Street and Waterloo Road to the south and Temple Way Underpass to the west.
A bypass runs over the River Avon creating a major transport link from the A4 road in south east Bristol, to junction 3 of the M32 motorway near the city centre. In past years St Philip's Marsh was a housing development for the workers of Bristol's market area (now known as Old Market). One of St Philip's' more influential residents during the ...
The area became the hub of the Bristol Tramways network, and was known as the Tramways Centre. [5] It was so called long after the last trams left in 1941, but is now known simply as The Centre . Between 1936 and 1938, the Centre was enlarged when more of the River Frome, between Broad Quay and St Augustine's Parade, was covered in, making way ...
Subsections of the city of Bristol in South West England and nearby places in other local government areas that are part of Bristol's metropolitan area Contents Top
Greater Bristol is a term used for the conurbation which contains and surrounds the city of Bristol in the South West of England.There is no official "Greater Bristol" authority, but the term is sometimes used by local, regional and national authorities, and others as a synonym for either the "Bristol Urban Area" or a wider area of the former County of Avon (sometimes the whole of the former ...
Old Market House Museum, Goliad, Texas, listed on the NRHP in Texas; in England. Old Market, Bristol, a Conservation Area around Old Market Street in Bristol; The Old Market, Hove, a cultural performance venue; Old Market, Hereford, a new retail shopping quarter in the city of Hereford, opened Spring 2014
Bristol (/ ˈ b r ɪ s t əl / ⓘ) is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. [9] [10] Built around the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south.
Stockwood forms an outermost southern suburb of the city with much green space; the upper part of Stockwood is set on a plateau surrounded by pasture and the lower part a wooded valley, bordered to its west by the old Bristol and North Somerset Railway rail line which is now a cycle way.