Bristol and the River Avon – an old engraving c. 1830
Bristol and the River Avon – an old engraving c. 1830. Bristol, Avon, England, UK, a city in the country's south west, began life when Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. Bristol received a royal charter in 1155. The city was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America. Bristol's main industry was in maritime trading and at the height of the slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. Bristol was overtaken in economic importance by the rapid rise of Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham in the Industrial Revolution.
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Location: Bristol, Avon, England, UK
Photo credit: © M&N / Alamy / Afripics
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