Bristol Self Guided Walking Tour

This is your tour! This tour enables you to walk through the city at your own pace. As you keep an eye on our interactive online map with more than enough interesting facts about this wonderful old city. Login free to the website and follow the map.
This is a great way to find out about Bristol, its history, stories, buildings and architecture. We also have added local ghost stories and murders to enjoy on the way.

Meeting Point

Bristol

Bristol, UK

There are many stories, histories and points of interest on this tour. Once you have paid for your tour, open the map in snikkit.com walk towards the nearest icon as you get close it will change colour and you can click it to listen. It's up to you where you want to go and what you want to see.

Colston Avenue

Colston Ave, Bristol BS1, UK

This is the now infamous location of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston.

What to expect:

Duration: between 2 hours and 3 hours, 40 minutes

M Shed

Wapping Road, , Bristol, BS1 4RN

M Shed is home to displays of 3,000 Bristol artefacts and stories, showing Bristol's role in the slave trade and items on transport, people, and the arts. Admission is free.

45 minutes

Brunel's SS Great Britain

Gas Ferry Road, Great Western Dockyard, Bristol, BS1 6TY

SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship, which was advanced for her time. She was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City.

45 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Christmas Steps

off Lewins Mead, Bristol, BS1 5BS

The steep-slanted steps were constructed in September 1669 and were paid for by wealthy wine merchant, Jonathan Blackwell. Prior to this there had been a steep, muddy and narrow street leading from the bridge over the Frome outside the city walls near the old St Bartholomew's Hospital, towards St Michael's church.

30 minutes

Bristol Harbour

Welsh Back, Bristol

Find out about Bristol's maritime history.

20 minutes

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Queens Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1RL

The museum includes sections on natural history as well as local, national and international archaeology. The art gallery contains works from all periods, including many by internationally famous artists, as well a collection of modern paintings of Bristol.

45 minutes

Clifton Suspension Bridge

Suspension Bridge Road, Leigh Woods, Bristol, BS8 4AP

The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset.

30 minutes

Queen Square

Off Prince Street, Bristol, BS1 4NH

A popular place for visitors and office workers to relax, and receives an estimated 1.6 million visitors per year. It regularly hosts outdoor theatre and cinema, music concerts, business exhibitions and other major events.

20 minutes

What's included:

• Ghost stories - Along with the history of Bristol we have added true ghost stories for you to enjoy.

Not included:

• You will need a device to connect to the internet