31 Facts About Bristol City

1. Bristol City has two further education institutions and two theological colleges: Trinity College, and Bristol Baptist College.

2. Bristol City is home to the regional headquarters of BBC West and the BBC Natural History Unit based at Broadcasting House, which produces television, radio and online content with a natural history or wildlife theme.

3. Bristol City were promoted to the second tier of English football in 2007, losing to Hull City in the playoff for promotion to the Premier League that season.

4. Bristol City Bears and Gloucestershire County Cricket Club are based in the city.

5. Bristol City is represented by professional teams in all the major national sports.

6. Bristol City has many venues for live music, its largest the 2,000-seat Colston Hall named after Edward Colston.

7. In 2005 Bristol City was named by the UK government one of England's six science cities.

8. Bristol City is one of the eight-largest regional English cities that make up the Core Cities Group, and is ranked as a gamma world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, the fourth-highest-ranked English city.

9. Bristol City is unusual among major British towns and cities in its larger black than Asian population.

10. Bristol City has green belt mainly along its southern fringes, taking in small areas within the Ashton Court Estate, South Bristol crematorium and cemetery, High Ridge common and Whitchurch, with a further area around Frenchay Farm.

11. Bristol City was ranked as Britain's most sustainable city, topping environmental charity Forum for the Future's 2008 Sustainable Cities Index.

12. Bristol City is often described, by its inhabitants, as being built on seven hills.

13. Bristol City is part of a limestone area running from the Mendip Hills in the south to the Cotswolds in the northeast.

14. On 1 April 1974, Bristol City became a local government district of the county of Avon.

15. On 3 May 2012, Bristol City held a referendum on the question of a directly elected mayor replacing one elected by the council.

16. Bristol City was associated with Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who designed the Great Western Railway between Bristol and London Paddington, two pioneering Bristol-built oceangoing steamships, and the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

17. The Port of Bristol City has since moved from Bristol City Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.

18. Bristol City was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World.

19. Bristol City was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution.

20. Bristol City received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373, when it became a county of itself.

21. In 2008 European Capital of Culture, Bristol City was the finalist even though Liverpool got the award.

22. In 2008, Bristol City took the title as the first cycling city in England.

23. Bristol City was selected as a county after it became a part of Gloucestershire.

24. Bristol City was replaced by Sean O'Driscoll, the club's fifth head coach in three years, but City were relegated to League One after six seasons in the Championship.

25. Bristol City won the Welsh Cup in 1934 despite being an English team.

26. Salvation Army in Carson Bristol City seeks to serve 500 with Turkey Drop.

27. Bristol City have played at Ashton Gate in the south-west of Bristol, just south of the River Avon, since moving from St John's Lane in 1904.

28. Bristol City have played in red and white since the 1890s, occasionally including black.

29. Bristol City were relegated in bottom place and Lennartsson was dismissed in favour of Gillingham's Tony Pulis, who lasted six months before leaving to take over at Portsmouth.

30. Bristol City spent two seasons in the Fourth Division before winning promotion under Terry Cooper in 1984.

31. Bristol City joined the Football League in 1901 when they became only the third club south of Birmingham to perform in the competition.