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A day out to Blaise Castle House Museum. Blaise Castle is an 18th-century mansion house and estate near Henbury in Bristol, England,
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Bristol ( (listen)) is a city and county in South West England with a population of 459,300. The wider district has the 10th-largest population in England. The urban area population of 724,000 is the 8th-largest in the UK. The city borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively. South Wales lies across the Severn estuary.
Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century the settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English the place at the bridge). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373, when it became a county of itself. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities after London in tax receipts. Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution.
Bristol 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. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol 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. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.
Bristol's modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the U.K.—the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. The city has two universities, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, and a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Spike Island, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road and rail, and to the world by sea and air: road, by the M5 and M4 (which connect to the city centre by the Portway and M32); rail, via Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations; and Bristol Airport.
One of the UK's most popular tourist destinations, Bristol was selected in 2009 as one of the world's top ten cities by international travel publishers Dorling Kindersley in their Eyewitness series of travel guides. The Sunday Times named it as the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014 and 2017, and Bristol also won the EU's European Green Capital Award in 2015.
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00:03:04 1 Etymology
00:04:26 2 History
00:05:15 2.1 Middle Ages
00:07:08 2.2 15th and 16th centuries
00:09:06 2.3 17th and 18th centuries
00:11:29 2.4 19th century
00:14:01 2.5 20th century
00:17:12 3 Government
00:21:30 3.1 Former county of Avon
00:22:25 3.2 West of England Combined Authority
00:23:08 4 Geography and environment
00:23:18 4.1 Boundaries
00:24:07 4.2 Geography
00:25:48 4.3 Climate
00:28:33 4.4 Environment
00:29:27 4.5 Green belt
00:30:01 5 Demography
00:32:08 5.1 Bristol conurbation
00:33:16 6 Economy and industry
00:41:10 7 Culture
00:41:19 7.1 Arts
00:46:00 7.2 Architecture
00:50:00 7.3 Sport
00:55:15 7.4 Media
00:57:33 7.5 Dialect
00:59:34 7.6 Religion
01:00:53 7.7 Bars and nightlife
01:02:44 8 Education, science and technology
01:05:27 9 Transport
01:05:36 9.1 Rail
01:07:09 9.2 Roads
01:08:19 9.3 Public transport
01:10:19 9.4 Cycling
01:11:01 9.5 Air
01:11:28 10 Twin cities
01:12:15 11 See also
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Bristol ( (listen)) is a city and county in South West England with a population of 459,300. The wider district has the 10th-largest population in England. The urban area population of 724,000 is the 8th-largest in the UK. The city borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively. South Wales lies across the Severn estuary.
Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century the settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English the place at the bridge). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373, when it became a county of itself. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities after London in tax receipts. Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution.
Bristol 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. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol 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. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.
Bristol's modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the UK—the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. The city has two universities, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, and a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Spike Island, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road and rail, and to the world by sea and air: road, by the M5 and M4 (which connect to the city centre by the Portway and M32); rail, via Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations; and Bristol Airport.
One of the UK's most popular tourist destinations, Bristol was selected in 2009 as one of the world's top ten cities by international travel publishers Dorling Kindersley in their Eyewitness series of travel guides. The Sunday Times named it as the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014 and 2017, and Bristol al ...
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If you are looking to make these new homes for sale in Birmingham your home, all your everyday amenities can be found just a short distance from home, with shops, cafes, doctors’ surgery, pharmacy and traditional pubs all close by. And of course, children of all ages have a choice of ‘Good’ rated schools all within a mile and a half of home.
Of course, the other main benefit of choosing a new home in this area is that Birmingham and all it has to offer is just 5 miles away. This hugely popular and diverse city has everything you need; high street and designer name shops, food for all tastes and budgets, outdoor space and plenty of entertainment and leisure options. Shoppers can visit the Bullring Shopping Centre or The Mailbox, while those seeking entertainment have a number of live music venues and theatres to choose from. And if you want to find a little peace and quiet for a while, the area around Brindley Place is for you, with walks by the canal and plenty of restaurants to choose from.
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Living at Olympia will give you simple access to a number of other towns and cities. Just 4.5 miles away is the large town of Solihull. This is a good place to visit for a wider range of amenities; you will find high street shops for clothing and technology, as well as a John Lewis department store. There are plenty of places for food and drink, with cafes, restaurants, coffee shops, and pubs. Beyond the town centre, you will be just a short distance from Brueton Park, with formal areas, woods, tennis courts, and a conservation centre.
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John Wesley’s London Home
Broadcast during the 1970s in the series John Snagge’s London, John Snagge takes a look inside the home of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. The house is located in City Road, London and is open to the public Monday to Saturday from 10.00am to 4.00pm. Close to the City of London, Wesley's Chapel and home were built by John Wesley in 1778 to serve as his London base and replaced his original London chapel at The Foundry (the site of which is commemorated by a wall plaque just 50m away).
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John Wesley
John Wesley (/ˈwɛsli, ˈwɛzli/; 28 June [O.S. 17 June] 1703 – 2 March 1791) was an Anglican divine and theologian who, with his brother Charles Wesley and fellow cleric George Whitefield, is credited with the foundation of the evangelical movement known as Methodism. His work and writings also played a leading role in the development of the Holiness movement and Pentecostalism.
Educated in Charters School and Oxford University, Wesley was elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford in 1726 and ordained a priest two years later. Returning to Oxford in 1729 after serving as curate at his father's parish, he led the Holy Club, a club for the purpose of study and the pursuit of a devout Christian life; it had been founded by his brother Charles, and counted John Whitefield among its members. After an unsuccessful ministry of two years at Savannah in the Georgia Colony, Wesley returned to London and joined a religious society led by Moravian Christians. On 24 May 1738 he experienced what has come to be called his evangelical conversion, when he felt his heart strangely warmed. He subsequently departed with the Moravians, beginning his own ministry.
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John Wesley (; 28 June [O.S. 17 June] 1703 – 2 March 1791) was an English cleric and theologian who, with his brother Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield, founded Methodism.
Educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford, Wesley was elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford in 1726 and ordained as an Anglican priest two years later. He led the Holy Club, a society formed for the purpose of study and the pursuit of a devout Christian life; it had been founded by his brother Charles, and counted George Whitefield among its members. After an unsuccessful ministry of two years at Savannah in the Georgia Colony, Wesley returned to London and joined a religious society led by Moravian Christians. On 24 May 1738 he experienced what has come to be called his evangelical conversion, when he felt his heart strangely warmed. He subsequently left the Moravians, beginning his own ministry.
A key step in the development of Wesley's ministry was, like Whitefield, to travel and preach outdoors. In contrast to Whitefield's Calvinism, Wesley embraced Arminian doctrines. Moving across Great Britain and Ireland, he helped form and organise small Christian groups that developed intensive and personal accountability, discipleship and religious instruction. Most importantly, he appointed itinerant, unordained evangelists to travel and preach as he did and to care for these groups of people. Under Wesley's direction, Methodists became leaders in many social issues of the day, including prison reform and the abolition of slavery.
Although he was not a systematic theologian, Wesley argued for the notion of Christian perfection and against Calvinism—and, in particular, against its doctrine of predestination. He held that, in this life, Christians could achieve a state where the love of God reigned supreme in their hearts, giving them outward holiness. His evangelicalism, firmly grounded in sacramental theology, maintained that means of grace were the manner by which God sanctifies and transforms the believer, encouraging people to experience Jesus Christ personally.
Throughout his life, Wesley remained within the established Church of England, insisting that the Methodist movement lay well within its tradition. In his early ministry, Wesley was barred from preaching in many parish churches and the Methodists were persecuted; he later became widely respected and, by the end of his life, had been described as the best loved man in England. In 2002, he was placed at number 50 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.
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