Know Your Place

Learning and sharing information about historic Bristol

Know Your Place is a website that allows you to explore your neighbourhood through historic maps, images and linked information. Know Your Place allows:

• wider access to Bristol's historic maps
• you to share your own information and images about Bristol. 

Before entering Know Your Place please read the guidance notes in the related documents section. You must do this if you want to upload information to the site.

• Enter Know Your Place: the enhanced version.

This version uses the Silverlight plugin and has extra navigation tools. Please note it will not work on all browsers or devices. The plugin is free. For instructions on how to install it see the guidance document "How do I install Silverlight?".

• Enter Know Your Place: without the Silverlight plug in.
  

Subscribe to Know Your Place

You can subscribe to Know Your Place so that your browser receives a notification when we update any information. To subscribe go to the RSS Feed. See the document "How do I subscribe to Know Your Place?" for more guidance about this.

Background

The website was created by the City Design Group, with funding from English Heritage. This was in partnership with:

• Geographic Information Services (GIS)
• Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives
• Local volunteers.