The Bristol Urban Nature map is ready!
This map offers a different way to explore Bristol.
It brings together the rivers you can follow, the hills you can climb, the woods you can wander through, and the green spaces woven through everyday streets. Seen this way, the city becomes a connected landscape rather than a collection of destinations.
Use it to find a new way across Bristol. Take a longer route home. Walk a river you’ve never noticed, or cycle out along a green corridor and see where it leads. The map makes it easy to explore without over-planning, and often works best when you let it reshape your routine. It is an alternative guidebook for visitors, and helps residents see their city anew.
Turn it over and the atlas on the back offers ideas rather than instructions: seasonal moments, small adventures, and ways to engage with the city’s wildlife and landscapes. Nothing prescriptive, just prompts to help you look again.
Printed on durable paper with vivid fluorescent inks, it’s designed to be used — folded into a bag, taken out on a walk, marked, shared.
FLAT VERSIONS: Limited edition posters [1 of 100] Numbered, signed and embossed with our stamp. They are flat and unfolded, just showing the map side - perfect for framing or hanging on a wall. And if you add the folded map too, the 15% discount kicks in.
For those who like to explore as they go, and for anyone who wants to see more of Bristol than they expected.
Printed on the same press as Ordnance Survey maps, it is a large-format (950 × 1270mm), high-quality, folded map – custom drawn to highlight all the places to explore on foot or by bike.
Thanks to Peter Brooks, mtrlty.org, for help with the workshops, and these photos of the map out in the wild.
Aviva Community Fund – Thanks to Aviva we reached our crowdfunding goal that allows us to run engagement workshops in Bristol so we can make the map and the atlas on the reverse rich with local knowledge.
Local Stockists, if you like a real shop:
Quotes:
“Cllr Martin Fodor, Chair of the Environment and Sustainability policy committee at Bristol City Council, said: “Our city is criss-crossed by a network of wonderful blue and green spaces just waiting to be explored and enjoyed. From our parks both big and small, river and stream paths, forest walks and many other little green nooks and crannies, we’re blessed to be a city with nature on the doorstep of every community. This beautiful new map and guide offers a welcome opportunity for residents to plan their next adventure and enjoy the wealth of nature our city has to offer. I’m grateful to Charlie and the team at Urban Good for their work on this map and for all who supported this project to bring it to life.”
Savita Willmott of the Natural History Consortium said: “A beautiful map is never just something to look at — it’s an invitation to get outside, wander further, and pay closer attention to the places we thought we already knew. What makes this one especially powerful is its focus on what matters to me most: nature in the city. We are thrilled Urban Good wanted to launch the map during the region's Festival of Nature in June.”
Daniel Raven-Ellison of Slow Ways CIC said: “The Bristol map is a wonderful thing: joyful, surprising, and full of fresh perspective on a city I've enjoyed walking across a number of times. I’ve collaborated with Urban Good since their first London National Park City Map and the Slow Ways maps, and I’ve seen first-hand the power of a big, colourful sheet of paper to help people see a familiar place in an entirely new way.”
Simon Stonehouse of Natural England’s Wessex team said: “The release of this wonderful map today is a reminder of how it’s possible to make nature part of everybody’s day to day life. Bristol has a diverse patchwork of spaces where wildlife does its thing, and this map will help more people discover what’s on their doorstep.”
ISBN: 9781914432187