Bristol
Bristol was a city in and ceremonial county in England.
Clifton Suspension Bridge was located in Bristol, (PROSE: Reckless Engineering) as was Bristol University. (PROSE: Rags)
History
Before being taken through the Rift on 18 December 1953, Emma-Louise Cowell lived in Bristol. (TV: Out of Time)
The First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright attended a performance of The Crucible by Arthur Miller in Bristol on 9 November 1954. (PROSE: The Witch Hunters)
In the 1970s, The Unwashed visited a Bristol cemetery as part of their Unwashed and Unforgiving Tour. Revelers were led by the Ragman to kill everyone at The Money Tree bar. They were later stopped by the Third Doctor. (PROSE: Rags)
The Twelfth Doctor accidentally landed the TARDIS in Bristol when trying to get Clara Oswald home for a date with Danny Pink. After the TARDIS was shrunk, they encountered and defeated the Boneless, who had killed several local humans. (TV: Flatline)
Alternative timelines
Blood Heat
In an alternate timeline where Earth was ruled by the Silurians in 1993, Ace located the ruins of Bristol and nearly fell from Clifton Suspension Bridge. (PROSE: Blood Heat)
Reckless Engineering
In another alternate timeline, the Eighth Doctor, Anji Kapoor and Fitz Kreiner visited a post-apocalyptic Bristol in 2003. The ruins of the city were inhabited by Wildren. The Doctor travelled back to 1843 and was able to revert events back to the correct timeline. (PROSE: Reckless Engineering)
References
After crashing into Fang Rock in his steam yacht, Henry Palmerdale was desperate to get to Bristol and so searched the lighthouse for a means of communication. (TV: Horror of Fang Rock)
Behind the scenes
- Doctor Who Magazine editor Clayton Hickman was born in Bristol.
Location information
Though it's possible that a real world location doesn't exist in the same geographic space in the Doctor Who universe, such cases are few and far between. Thus, the map to the right is probably a good indicator of the DWU location of Bristol.
