Place Mary Russell Mitford visits the church
‘The first place that I visited was connected with a far deeper tragedy, the beautiful church of St. Mary Redcliffe. I climbed up to the...
Place The Learned Pig
Here stood The Plume of Feathers Inn. The Bristol Journal of 13th August 1785 reported that: ‘in the large and commodious room...
Place Joseph Cottle's bookshop
Born in Bristol and educated in Hanham, Joseph Cottle established himself as a bookseller, printer and publisher in the heart of the...
Place John Pinney's house
John Pinney, merchant venturer, built this house on returning from the West Indies. He made a fortune on plantations and continued to...
Media Wordsworth
Place Tintern Abbey
Tintern Abbey, founded in 1131 by Walter de Clare, and dissolved in 1536, became, in the centuries which followed, a popular tourist...
Place Redcliffe Way: the Birthplace of Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton (1752 – 1770) was born here. The author of pseudo-medieval poetry and caustic satire, he is famous as the father of...