Bristol

:This article is about the English city of Bristol. For other uses please see Bristol (disambiguation).

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Bristol is an English city and county and one of the two administrative centres of South West England (the other being Plymouth). From its earliest days, its prosperity has been linked to that of the Port of Bristol, the commercial port which originated in the city centre, but which has now migrated to the Bristol Channel coast. Bristol extends to this coast and includes Avonmouth, where much of the current port is located. Notable areas in and surrounding the city include Clifton, Filton and Patchway. (These last two areas are outside the present city boundary, in South Gloucestershire.)

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Bristol is England's eighth, and the United Kingdom's eleventh, most populous city. As such, it is one of England's core cities. It had been, for half a century, the second largest English city after London, until the rapid rise of Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, in the 1780s.

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