Bristol Walled Town Text

Mediaeval second city of England (after London)
Bristol has grown from a tightly bounded walled town and  'sacred city' centred on its High Cross to a wide ranging city of trade and commerce. A County in its own right since 1377, frequently rebellious, Bristol demolished its Castle Royal in the 17th Century 'lost' its High Cross to a country estate in Dorset and hid its walls beneath its prosperity, except for one fine gate - St. Johns.
Bristol Civic Society has recently published a report by Haydn Mason of David M. Bruce's presentation on 'The Lost Walls of Bristol' (p5) 


Bristol features in Braun and Hogenberg Vol III.1 (see detail below)
and in Baedeker 1906 Gross Britannien (German) map p88/89
Further information to follow in due course.