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Bristol

Bristol
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About Bristol

Bristol is a city and ceremonial county in South West England. It is located on the River Avon, and bordered by Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south with a short coastline on the Bristol Channel to the west. The county includes the majority of the Bristol conurbation, however, the urban area of the city extends into the neighbouring districts of South Gloucestershire, Bath and North East Somerset, and North Somerset.

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In Bristol they add an L, overcompensating for all the L's that have been dropped from other people's speech.

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More facts about Bristol

  1. The UK used to have its own local time zones, so if you lived in Bristol you were on a different time to London, until the trains changed all that.

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  2. There's a new supercomputer in the UK, which opened last summer in Bristol and is called Isambard AI.

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  3. There is a bus that runs from Bristol to Bath powered by poo, using biomethane gas from excrement, and it can travel up to 186 miles on one tank.

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Coordinates: 51.4536, -2.5975

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