The Fosseway, Bristol BS8 1AA
 
Birdcage Walk is a pathway through a graveyard which is covered all the way with an arch of intertwining trees. 
The Show of Strength Theatre Co.  (make some nice guided walk in Bristol )  wrote to one of my Instagram photo about this place :"I'm told this isn't Birdcage Walk!
It was Church Walk or Lime Walk.
Birdcage Walk was the path through Victoria Square but the arches they hung the bird cages from were removed during the war as scrap metal."
I don't know what'it is right name of this place, but it is a nice attraction of Bristol.
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" The Birdcage walk is a piece of Bristol history. 
If you walk in the City, you can find plenty of old buildings that have been extensively renovated, it seems like your walk as you were traveling a little bit in the past. Here, however, you face the devastation.

The small "park" was actually a church with a churchyard, of which only the churchyard remained after the second World War's bombings.

The pictures in the site show what the place used to be like, which is now a small park visited by squirrels, birds and of course, people.

If you walk in the neighbour, don't miss this place, I can just recommend it..."

Bristol city centre is full of leafy shortcuts and winding paths between buildings from different centuries, crammed together like teeth.

During the Second World War, Bristol was the fifth most heavily bombed city.

Owing to its harbour and aeroplane company, it was a target of particular interest to attacking forces.

It was also a city easy to find; to follow up the river Avon, using moonlight as a guide, Nazi planes would quickly locate the city and drop enormous clusters of bombs.

Several churches were hit, gutted or destroyed during the Blitz, including the well-known Temple Church.

However, one of the lesser known architectural victims was that of St Andrew’s church in Clifton.

On the first night of the Bristol Blitz, on Sunday 24thNovember 1940, the church suffered a direct hit and was reduced to rubble.

St Andrews was recorded in 1154 when it was given to the Abbey of St Augustine and was drastically changed in the 17thcentury, being partially rebuilt in 1654.

After being rebuilt (with direction from architect, James Foster) in a Regency Gothic style in 1819-22, the church maintained this appearance until its destruction in 1940. The church was an odd mixture of styles, having gothic windows, fittings and galleries and classical ceilings. Despite the bomb damage, the tower remained standing until 1958 when it too was demolished.

Today, St Andrews and its old churchyard are all but forgotten in their landscape, aimlessly frequented by commuters, bored mothers and dog walkers.

While the church is long gone, its churchyard remains, with tombs and monuments hidden behind metal railings and overgrown bushes.

Although the site seems closed to visitors today, access is still possible by small gates at the ends of the path.

The churchyard was never officially called ‘birdcage walk’, and was often simply called ‘the avenue.’ ‘Birdcage Walk’ appears to be a name referring to the metal arches covering the avenue, intended for greenery and flowers.

It is the beauty of these arches in bloom that keeps Birdcage Walk in the Bristolian consciousness.

The burial ground primarily holds interments from the 18thand 19thcenturies, in a variety of forms.

Visiting in summer may indeed be preferable, as the inclement weather of my latest visit made exploration rather more unpleasant and hazardous than necessary!

Nonetheless, there are many beautiful inscriptions and carvings to observe, should you be brave enough to face the tree roots and dog mess that inevitably await.

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