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The University of Bristol Drama Department offers undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in performance and screen studies. [17] The University of the West of England offers undergraduate and post-graduate drama and film programmes. [18] Circomedia is a training school for circus and physical theatre skills offering foundation degrees and BTEC ...
A trow was a flat-bottomed barge, and Llandogo is a village 20 miles (32 km) north-west of Bristol, across the Severn Estuary and upstream on the River Wye in South Wales, where trows were once built. Trows historically sailed to trade in Bristol from Llandogo. The pub was named by Captain Hawkins, a sailor who lived in Llandogo and ran the pub ...
Bristol is the second largest city in Southern England, after the capital London. Iron Age hillforts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th ...
It includes two pitch-and-putt golf courses, a disc golf course, an orienteering course and horse riding and mountain bike trails. [44] Bristol's weekly parkrun event (a free, timed 5 km run organised by volunteers) is held at Ashton Court. [45] There is a deer park which was started in the 14th century and extended in the 16th and 17th ...
The Red Lodge was originally built at the top of the gardens of "ye Great House of St. Augustine's Back". [4] The Great House was built in 1568 [5] on the site of an old Carmelite Priory, later still the site of Bristol Beacon (formerly named Colston Hall), [4] [6] by Sir John Young/Yonge, the descendant of a merchant family and courtier to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
It is the parent of classical label Amon Ra and the folk label The Village Thing. Saydisc and Village Thing are covered in two books by the award-nominated Bristolian author, Mark Jones: Bristol Folk provides a discographical history of many of the artists that recorded for Saydisc and Village Thing and also includes a partial history of the ...
The Bristol Troubadour Club was a short lived but influential club in the thriving contemporary folk music scene in Bristol in the late 1960s and early 1970s, It was located in Clifton village, the student quarter above the city centre. The club was considered by some as the liveliest and most creative outside London.
Folk House may refer to: Blidworth Welfare F.C., formerly named Folk House Old Boys F.C. (1926–1982) Folk house, a style of house music; China Folk House Retreat, a cultural center and folk house in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States