JISC

location details

University of Bristol
3rd Floor, Beacon House
Queens Road
Bristol
BS8 1QU

Telephone: +44 (0) 117 33 10789

Fax: +44 (0) 117 33 10667

Location

The JISC Bristol office is located on the second and third floor of Beacon House above the Habitat shop on Queens Road, adjacent to the Royal Academy of Arts. Facing the main entrance to Habitat there is another entrance to the left. Reception is on the third floor, please press the top buzzer for the JISC reception to announce your arrival.

Directions

Travel by train Temple Meads is the nearest railway station. There is a free Hospital and University bus shuttle service that runs on a regular basis during working hours that will take you to the University precinct. Bus numbers 8 and 9 (renumbered to 508 and 509 during some periods of the day) run every 15 minutes from Temple Meads. Number 8 stops opposite the Victoria Rooms and Number 9 stops on Queens Avenue right outside the Habitat shop and Beacon House. For bus timetables, please visit the First City Line web site. There is also a taxi rank at Temple Meads.

Travel by coach The coach station is on Marlborough Street in the City Centre. The free Hospital and University bus shuttle stops at the coach station and there is also a taxi rank outside the station.

Travel by air Bristol International Airport is about 8 miles South of Bristol City Centre. A bus service runs from the airport to Temple Meads station on a fairly regular basis. Further information about the Bristol Flyer service can be found on the Bristol International Airport web pages under 'Find Us'.

If you are flying from London, Heathrow airport has a direct National Express Coach Service to Bristol. Alternatively you can take the Heathrow Airport Express train to London Paddington and change there for a train to Bristol.

Travel by car Travelling to Bristol by car is not recommended as parking is scarce. If you do have to travel by car please ask for a visitor's car parking space to be reserved for you, giving your car registration number, person you are visiting and dates and times of the visit. There are multi-story car parks about 5 minutes walk from Beacon House on Park Row and Jacobs Wells Road. Directions from the M32:

• Carry straight on from the end of the M32 until you come to a T junction where you should turn right (following signs to Bus Station and Clifton)
• You soon come to a roundabout where you should take the second exit (following signs to Bus Station, Royal Infirmary and Clifton)
• Go straight on over several sets of traffic lights. Just after the entrance to the multi-story car park on your left, turn right into Woodland Road
• At the top of the hill is a crossroads (Woodland Road with Elton Road and Tyndall Avenue) with the Hawthorns on the left hand side of the road. Visitor car parking spaces are available at the Hawthorns.  If  the visitor car parking spaces are full, please use one of the multi-story car parks on Park Row or Jabobs Wells Road
• To get to Beacon House from the Hawthorns (by foot), walk down Elton Road and Queens Avenue
• At the end of Queens Avenue turn right and you will find the entrance to Beacon House