Bristol (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Terms where Bristol refers to the English city 1.1 Places 1.2 Transport 1.3 Sports 1.4 Other 2 Towns and cities in the United States 2.1 Other things in the United States 3 Places in other countries 4 Miscellaneous

Bristol is a city and county in England, but may also refer to:

[edit] Terms where Bristol refers to the English city

[edit] Places

• The Bristol Channel, a body of water between England and Wales
• Port of Bristol, the commercial and formerly commercial docks in Bristol, Avonmouth and Portbury
• Bristol Harbour, the floating harbour in the centre of the city
• Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum
• Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
• Bristol Old Vic, a theatre complex
• Bristol Zoo, the world's oldest provincial zoo

[edit] Transport

• Bristol Aeroplane Company
• Bristol cars, an offshoot of Bristol Aeroplane Company independent since 1960
• Bristol buses, formerly manufactured by Bristol Tramways
• Bristol Omnibus Company, once the main bus operator in Bristol, Gloucestershire and parts of Somerset and Wiltshire
• Bristol International Airport

[edit] Sports

• Bristol Rovers F.C., a football club
• Bristol Academy W.F.C., a women's football club
• Bristol City F.C., a football club
• Bristol Rugby
• Bristol Sonics, a rugby league team

[edit] Other

• The University of Bristol
• Diocese of Bristol, a Church of England diocese covering the city
• Bristol Castle, a Norman castle whose remains can be seen in the city
• Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, the largest ballooning event in Europe
• Bristol Observer, a free weekly newspaper
• Bristol Water, a commercial company

[edit] Towns and cities in the United States

• Bristol, Colorado
• Bristol, Connecticut
• Bristol, Florida
• Bristol, Illinois
• Bristol, Indiana
• Bristol, Maine
• Bristol, Maryland
• Bristol, New Hampshire
• Bristol, New York
• Bristol, Pennsylvania
• Bristol, Rhode Island
• Bristol, South Dakota
• Bristol, Tennessee
• Bristol, Texas
• Bristol, Vermont
• Bristol, Virginia
• Bristol, Washington
• Bristol, Wisconsin (several)
  • Bristol, Dane County, Wisconsin
  • Bristol, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
• Bristol County, Massachusetts
• Bristol County, Rhode Island
• Bristol Township, Minnesota
• Bristol Township, Pennsylvania

[edit] Other things in the United States

• Bristol Bay (north of the Aleutian Islands)
• Bristol Motor Speedway, in Bristol, Tennessee
• Bristol Mountain, a ski resort in the Finger Lakes region of New York State
• The Bristol Mountains, in San Bernardino County, California
• The Bristol Renaissance Faire, an entertainment theme park near Bristol, Wisconsin
• Bristol Southside, a condominium development in Birmingham, Alabama

[edit] Places in other countries

• Bristol Beach, Argentina
• Bristol, Quebec, Canada
• Bristol, New Brunswick, Canada
• Bristol Island, of the South Sandwich Islands

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Marquess of Bristol, English aristocratic title held by the Hervey family
• Bristol blue glass, glass in a distinctive cobalt blue colour
• Bristol (solitaire), a one-player, one-deck card game
• Bristol board, a kind of stiff card used mainly for technical drawing
• Bristol Cream, a Spanish sherry bottled in Bristol, England
• Bristol Paint, an Australian decorating supplies company
• "The Bristol Stomp", a 1961 song by the Dovells
• Bristol Stool Scale, a classification chart determining forms of faeces
• The Bristol Wrench, a driver for Bristol spline drive fasteners
• "Bristols", Cockney rhyming slang for breasts
• USS Bristol (DD-453), a class of U.S. ship, namely destroyers
• HMS Bristol, the name of six British warships
• Bristol class, a design within the Royal Navy Town class cruiser (1910)
• Hotel Bristol, the many hotels of this name
• Bristol (software), a software synthesiser