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Clifton is an
inner suburb An inner suburb is a suburban community central to a large city, or at the inner city and central business district. The urban density is usually lower than the inner city or central business district, but higher than that of the city's rural� ...
of
Bristol Bristol () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. Built around the River Avon, Bristol, River Avon, it is bordered by t ...
,
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, and the name of one of the city's thirty-five
electoral wards The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level, represented by one or more councillors. The ''ward (subnational entity), ward'' is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil pa ...
. The Clifton ward also includes the areas of Cliftonwood and Hotwells. The eastern part of the suburb lies within the ward of Clifton Down. Clifton is home to
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's Clifton Suspension Bridge; many buildings of the
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, including Goldney Hall; the
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Clifton Cathedral; Christ Church, Clifton Down;
Clifton College Clifton College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in the city of Bristol in South West England, founded in 1862 and offering both boarding school, boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18. In its early years, unlike mo ...
; Clifton High School; the former Amberley House preparatory school;
Queen Elizabeth's Hospital Queen Elizabeth's Hospital (also known as QEH) is a 7–18 private boys' day school in Clifton, Bristol, England, founded in 1586. QEH is named after its original patron, Queen Elizabeth I. Known traditionally as "The City School", Queen Eliz ...
School, The Clifton Club; and
Bristol Zoo Bristol Zoo was a zoo in the city of Bristol in South West England. The zoo's stated mission was to "maintain and defend" biodiversity through breeding endangered species, conserving threatened species and habitats and promoting a wider underst ...
. It is also noted for the Downs, a large, open park.


Geography

Although the suburb has no formal boundaries, the name Clifton is generally applied to the high ground stretching from Whiteladies Road in the east to the rim of the Avon Gorge in the west, and from Clifton Down and Durdham Down in the north to Cornwallis Crescent in the south. This area corresponds roughly with the Bristol City Council electoral wards of Clifton and Clifton Down, albeit with some discrepancies. The southern boundary of Clifton ward is Hotwells Road, encompassing the hillside areas that might typically be considered to be the Cliftonwood and Hotwells neighbourhoods rather than Clifton. The eastern boundary of Clifton Down ward encompasses Redland Park and Cotham Hill, which might typically be considered to be in the Redland and Cotham neighbourhoods. Clifton has several neighbourhood focal points, including
Whiteladies Road Whiteladies Road is a main road in Bristol, England. It runs north from the Victoria Rooms (Bristol), Victoria Rooms to Durdham Down, and separates Clifton, Bristol, Clifton on the west side from Redland, Bristol, Redland and Cotham, Bristol, C ...
, an important shopping district to the east, and Clifton Village, a smaller shopping area near the
Avon Gorge The Avon Gorge () is a 1.5-mile (2.5-kilometre) long Canyon, gorge on the River Avon (Bristol), River Avon in Bristol, England. The gorge runs south to north through a limestone ridge west of Bristol city centre, and about 3 miles (5&nbs ...
to the west.


History

Clifton was recorded in the
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as ''Clistone'', the name of the village denoting a 'hillside settlement' and referring to its position on a steep hill. Situated to the west of Bristol city centre, it was at one time a separate settlement but became attached to Bristol by continuous development during the
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and was formally incorporated into the city in the 1830s. Until 1898, Clifton St Andrew was a separate
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
within the Municipal Borough of Bristol. In 1891 the parish had a population of 29,345. On 30 September 1896, the parish was abolished to form North Bristol. Clifton is one of the oldest and most affluent areas of the city, much of it having been built with profits from tobacco and the slave trade. Grand houses that required many servants were built in the area. Although some were detached or semi-detached properties, the bulk were built as terraces, many with three or more floors. One famous terrace is the majestic Royal York Crescent, visible from the Avon Gorge below and looking across the Bristol docks.
Berkeley Square Berkeley Square is a garden square in the West End of London. It is one of the best known of the many squares in London, located in Mayfair in the City of Westminster. It was laid out in the mid 18th century by the architect William Kent, ...
and Berkeley Crescent, which were built around 1790, are examples of
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. Secluded squares include the triangular Canynge Square. The Whiteladies Picture House on Whiteladies Road was converted into offices and a gymnasium in 2001 but it was re-opened as a cinema by Everyman Cinemas in 2016. Clifton Lido was built in 1850 but closed to the public in 1990, it was redeveloped and opened again to the public in November 2008. On 17 December 1978 a bomb on Queen's Road in Clifton detonated, injuring at least seven people. The
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was responsible.


Transport

Clifton is served by
Clifton Down railway station Clifton Down railway station is on the Severn Beach line and serves the district of Clifton, Bristol, Clifton in Bristol, England. It is from . Its three letter station code is CFN. The station has two platforms, each serving trains in one di ...
on the local Severn Beach railway line, and by frequent bus services from central Bristol. It has road links to the city centre and outer western suburbs, and across the Clifton Suspension Bridge to
Leigh Woods Leigh Woods is a area of woodland on the south-west side of the Avon Gorge, close to the Clifton Suspension Bridge, within North Somerset opposite the English city of Bristol and north of the Ashton Court estate, of which it formed a part. St ...
in
North Somerset North Somerset is a unitary authorities of England, unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. The council is based in Weston-super-Mare, the area's largest town. The district also contains the towns of Clevedon, Nailsea ...
. Between 1893 and 1934, it was connected to Hotwells by the Clifton Rocks Railway.


Natural history

Clifton has a long history of natural history television programming and global conservation, due to the presence of the former
Bristol Zoo Bristol Zoo was a zoo in the city of Bristol in South West England. The zoo's stated mission was to "maintain and defend" biodiversity through breeding endangered species, conserving threatened species and habitats and promoting a wider underst ...
in the north of the neighbourhood, and the BBC Natural History Unit on
Whiteladies Road Whiteladies Road is a main road in Bristol, England. It runs north from the Victoria Rooms (Bristol), Victoria Rooms to Durdham Down, and separates Clifton, Bristol, Clifton on the west side from Redland, Bristol, Redland and Cotham, Bristol, C ...
, which means that more than 25% of the world's wildlife programmes are made in Bristol. '' Animal Magic'' with Johnny Morris was filmed at Bristol Zoo for the duration of the programme (1963–1983). The UK arm of the conservation charity Ape Action Africa, which rescues and rehabilitates chimpanzees and gorillas in
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, West Africa, operates out of Clifton.


Clifton electoral ward

Clifton electoral ward covers the central and southwestern parts of Clifton, plus Cliftonwood and the hillside areas of Hotwells as far south as Hotwells Road. The ward is represented by two members on
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, which are Paula O'Rourke and Jerome Thomas, both of the
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. Clifton was first created as an electoral ward at the time that the County of Avon was created in 1974, electing 1 member to Avon County Council and 3 members to Bristol City Council.The County of Avon (District Wards) Order 1973 The boundaries were revised in 1980 and 2016. Before 2016, Bristol City Council used a system of elections by thirds, in which councillors sat for four year terms, but elections took place in three out of every four years, with roughly one third of seats up for election at any one time. Clifton ward therefore elected one of its two councillors at a time, in elections taking place every second year.


Famous and notable residents

* David Anderson – vicar of Clifton Church (1864–1881) *
Angela Carter Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picar ...
– author (whilst studying at the
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) *
Carla Denyer Carla Suzanne Denyer (born 24 September 1985) is a British politician who has been the Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales alongside Adrian Ramsay since 2021 and the Member of Parliam ...
– councillor for Clifton (2015–2024), MP for Bristol Central (2024-present), and
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co-leader (2021–present). * Eliza Walker Dunbar – early female doctor *
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– later Empress Eugenie of France, wife of
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, was a student in Royal York Crescent where she was known as "Carrots" * Keith Floyd – restaurateur and TV personality * W. G. Grace – cricketer and surgeon *
Francis Greenway Francis Greenway (20 November 1777 - September 1837) was an English-Australian convict and colonial architect. After being convicted of forgery in England and subsequently transported to New South Wales, Australia (known then as New Holland) ...
– renowned Australian architect and designer of The Clifton Club * John Grimshaw – founder of
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and a voice for cyclists in the UK. * Sarah Guppy – inventor and collaborator with
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Isambard Kingdom Brunel ( ; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engi ...
* Charles Hansom – architect of
Clifton College Clifton College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in the city of Bristol in South West England, founded in 1862 and offering both boarding school, boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18. In its early years, unlike mo ...
*
Henry Selby Hele-Shaw Henry Selby Hele-Shaw Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (1854–1941) was an English mechanical and automobile engineer. He was the inventor of the Variable-pitch propeller (aeronautics), variable-pitch propeller, which contributed to British suc ...
– engineer and inventor of the Hele-Shaw clutch, Professor at the
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* Victoria Hughes – carer for prostitutes whilst cleaning the public toilets on Clifton Down * John James - businessman and philanthropist * Annie Kenney – leading suffragette *
Thomas MacAulay Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was an English historian, poet, and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 184 ...
– historian * Charles Miles – cricketer and soldier * Peter Nichols – actor and playwright at the
Bristol Old Vic Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol. The present company was established in 1946 as an offshoot of the Old Vic in London. It is associated with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which became a fin ...
* Frank Norman – novelist and playwright * Peter O'Toole – actor starting his career at the
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* Svetlana Alliluyeva – later known as Lana Peters, Stalin's daughter * Edward Innes Pocock – Scottish rugby player, member of
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'
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, born in Clifton in 1855 *
Reginald Innes Pocock Reginald Innes Pocock, (4 March 1863 – 9 August 1947) was a British zoologist. Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward's ...
– British zoologist, Edward's younger brother, born in 1863 * Charles Ross – Medieval English historian, lectured at the
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* J. D. Sedding – English church architect * Ellen Sharples and Rolinda Sharples – artist family *
Tom Stoppard Sir Tom Stoppard (; born , 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and politi ...
– playwright *
John Addington Symonds John Addington Symonds Jr. (; 5 October 1840 – 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies of writers and artists. Although mar ...
– writer * Paule Vézelay – artist * Richmond Waller – English cricketer and decorated Royal Marines officer * Fabian Ware – Founder of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Born Clifton 17 June 1869 * Sir Lawrence Weaver – influential editor of Country Life, architectural writer and organiser of the
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in
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in 1924 * William West – artist and builder of Clifton Observatory


In popular culture

In
Frances Burney Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post of "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Meckle ...
's novel '' Evelina'' (1778), young gentlemen are racing their phaetons on the public highways of Clifton (then still outside Bristol), and not without incident. Clifton also features briefly in Tobias Smollett's epistolary novel '' The Expedition of Humphry Clinker'' (1771). Part of the background to
Philippa Gregory Philippa Gregory (born 9 January 1954) is an English historical novelist who has been publishing since 1987. The best known of her works is ''The Other Boleyn Girl'' (2001), which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Roman ...
's historical novel ''A Respectable Trade'' – dealing mainly with the slave trade in late 18th-century Bristol – is the start of construction at Clifton, then a far area outside the city limits as they were at the time. In some passages characters debate whether Clifton could ever become viable and whether investment in real estate there would not be too risky – questions which were evidently quite relevant at the time though to the modern reader the answers are obvious. The song "Clifton in the Rain" by
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appears on his first album '' Bed-Sitter Images''. The song "32 West Mall", which appeared on the 1971 album ''
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'' was named after the communal flat that
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shared as their headquarters at 32 West Mall in 1970. The 1978 children's paranormal drama " The Clifton House Mystery" – produced by HTV; was set in the Clifton area. The plot revolved around a family moving into an old house; and subsequently finding a skeleton of a long-dead person in a hidden room. After some unexplained incidents, they become convinced that a ghost connected in some way with the Bristol Riots of 1831 is haunting the house. The plot is based on the story of the real-life Thomas Brereton, a
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commander who committed suicide after being court-martialled for his lenient approach to suppressing the rioters; although the ghost is named "George Bretherton" in the TV series. Clifton has been featured in many television sitcoms, including the late 1970s and early 1980s TV series '' Shoestring'', which was set in Bristol and starred Trevor Eve as a radio reporter and part-time sleuth. Much of the
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series '' Mistresses'' was set there, including the
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,
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and 2010 seasons. The TV series ''
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'' was partly filmed in Clifton, as was teen drama '' Skins'' and '' Being Human''. Costume drama ''
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'' was also largely filmed in Clifton, including at Goldney Hall and
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. The long-running hospital drama '' Casualty'' also drew on Clifton for many scenes between 1986 and 2009, when it was filmed in Bristol. In a 2017 episode of the American
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Black Sails,
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played by Ray Stevenson mentions Clifton as being the home of his mother. A number of films have also been set in Clifton, including '' The Truth About Love'' (2005) starring Dougray Scott and
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, '' The Foolish Things'' (2005), starring
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and Anjelica Huston, and '' Starter for 10'' (2006), starring James McAvoy and produced by
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, which was filmed largely on Royal York Crescent. The 1962 film about delinquent teenagers, '' Some People'', starring
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and Ray Brooks was filmed in and around Clifton.


Cliftonwood

Cliftonwood is a small suburb Bristol, bounded approximately by the Hotwells Road to the south, Jacob's Wells Road and Constitution Hill to the East and North East, Clifton Vale to the West, and by the gardens of Goldney Hall, a
University of Bristol The University of Bristol is a public university, public research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Br ...
hall of residence, to the north. Due to the geography of the area, there are only two roads in and out: Ambra Vale in the south-west corner, and Clifton Wood Road in the north-east, though there are many footpaths. On some sources the area is spelled Cliftonwood (one word), and in some Clifton Wood (two words). For elections to Bristol City Council, Cliftonwood is part of Clifton ward. The suburb is primarily a residential area, with the only commercial premises being the Lion pub. Housing is largely large Victorian terraces, which are often painted bright colours – the coloured houses one can see when standing on Bristol's harbourside and looking up at Cliftonwood are the backs of houses on Ambrose Road and Clifton Wood Terrace. A medieval Jewish ritual bath known as a ''
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'' was discovered in 1987 in the former Hotwells Police Station bicycle shed by the Temple Local History group. This is believed to be the origin of the name Jacob's Well, also given to the adjoining road.


References


External links

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BID Clifton Village – Non profit making organisation whose aim is to promote and celebrate the unique character of Clifton
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