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Tucked away across Bristol’s historic streets, hidden markers once defined parish boundaries – and still quietly trace its medieval past....
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A walk round Dyrham Park is a delight at any time of year, writes Andrew Swift. But in October, with...
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Andrew Swift takes advantage of the recent reopening of a once notoriously closed iron bridge, to explore the lost gardens of Kings Weston and discover one of the most historic tracts of land found in our city In November 2015, a footbridge spanning Kings Weston Road, built in 1821 to...
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Feeling the urge to escape the city? Andrew Swift can help, having recently walked part of the Somerset Coastal Path...
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Last year it was decided that St Pauls Carnival would be held biennially, so, while there will be plenty of...
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Andrew Swift commemorates 100 years since St Anne’s Wood officially opened by reflecting on its historic significance and exploring this green, wooded pocket of Brislington as it is today… This month Bristol marks a notable centenary. At 6.30pm on 13 June 1924, several thousand people attended a ceremony marking the...
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Over 100 new trees have been planted at Bristol Memorial Woodlands, near Thornbury, as the latest phase in the creation...
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Charlotte and Shaun Prescott from the Bath Beekeeping Association are seriously enamoured with bees. They tell us the story of...
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Andrew Swift follows an unfamiliar path through Bourton Combe and discovers something he never thought he’d stumble upon in this part of Somerset… One evening in January, while sorting through a pile of old books, I came upon one published in 1931 – Unbeaten Tracks of the West: The Hiker’s...
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From empty fields with no tracks and trees came a community agricultural enterprise that brought a host of volunteers and...
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This month, Andrew Swift explores the Avon Gorge, taking a closer look at how the introduction of a small herd...
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As Bristol celebrates its 650th year of being an independent county, Andrew Swift looks at the curious way in which the distant event took place… In the past 50 years, redrawing the boundaries of England’s counties – and inventing new names for them – has become a regular occurrence. In...