Old Bristol Bridge.
Sometime during the course of the early Middle Ages, the Anglo-Saxons who had settled in the borough built a bridge across the Avon River and the surrounding town. It was from this bridge that the town of Bristol derived its name. 'Brygestowe', as it was called in the medieval times, simply meant 'the place of assembly by the bridge.'

From Charles Wells, A Short History of the Port of Bristol (Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1909) 4.