Spike Island
Spike Island is an inner city and harbour area of the English port city of Bristol, adjoining the city centre. It comprises the strip of land between the Floating Harbour to the north and the tidal New Cut of the River Avon to the south, from the dock entrance to the west to Bathurst Basin in the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: area in Bristol, England, UK
- Also known as: “Spike Island, Bristol”
Places of Interest
Highlights include SS Great Britain and Bristol Marina.
SS Great Britain
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. The largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1853, she was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City.
Bristol Marina
Marina
The Bristol Marina is located in Bristol Harbour, Bristol, England. The marina has been in operation since 1980. It is situated adjacent to the SS Great Britain on the south side of the harbour on the site of the former Charles Hill & Sons Ltd's Albion Dockyard, which it shares with Abels Shipbuilders.
Girl with a Pierced Eardrum
Work of art
Girl with a Pierced Eardrum is a 2014 mural by anonymous street artist Banksy, on the wall of a building in Hanover Place, Spike Island, Bristol, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Southville and Hotwells.
Southville
Suburb
Southville is an inner city neighbourhood and council ward of Bristol, England, on the south bank of the River Avon northwest of Bedminster. Built mainly between the 1880s and the First World War for workers in local industries, it mixes Victorian terraces with post-bombing infill and recent developments.
Hotwells
Suburb
Photo: Gothick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hotwells is a neighbourhood in the English port city of Bristol. It is located to the south of and below the high ground of Clifton, and directly to the north of the Floating Harbour.
Ashton Gate
Suburb
Ashton Gate is a suburb of Bristol, United Kingdom, in the Southville ward of Bristol City Council. A toll house at the western end of North Street still survives and indicates the origin of the area's name as a gate on the road to Ashton.
Spike Island
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Bristol, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.44776° or 51° 26′ 52″ northLongitude
-2.61048° or 2° 36′ 38″ westOpen location code
9C3VC9XQ+4ROpenStreetMap ID
node 871602487OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q7577196
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Spike Island” goes by many names.
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Spike Island i Bristol”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Spike Island and Spike Sculpture.
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