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Waverley House
0.8 mi from centreRooms on request
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- 24/7 security
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William & Matthew House
1.1 mi from centre12 room types
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- Gym
- Bike storage
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Zed Alley Student Accommodation
1.1 mi from centre6 room types
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- Laundry
- Gym
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Neighbourhoods
Where to look in Bristol
Use these established student areas as starting points, then compare each property's rent and route to your university.
Where students live in Bristol
Areas students actually take rooms in, with the buildings closest to each one. Matched by location, so a building appears under the area it stands in rather than the area its marketing claims.
Clifton and Clifton Village
The University of Bristol precinct runs up into Clifton, so this is the short walk for most of its departments. Georgian and Victorian, the most expensive postcode in the city, and the hill back from the centre is steeper than any map suggests.
- Marlborough Houseprice on enquiry
- Hotwells Housefrom £215/week
- Cathedral Parkfrom £260/week
Redland and Cotham
Traditional second and third year ground, shared Victorian houses a bus ride or a long walk from the precinct. Quiet streets, almost no new blocks, and the Gloucester Road shops at the eastern edge.
- Holly Courtprice on enquiry
Kingsdown and Stokes Croft
Between the two universities and cheaper precisely because it sits between them. Stokes Croft is the loud end, with the murals, the late bars and the noise that comes with both.
- Canvas The Malthousefrom £255/week
- King Square Studiosfrom £210/week
- Studio 58from £225/week
Harbourside and city centre
Where most of Bristol's purpose-built blocks are, within reach of the Bristol precinct and the UWE shuttle stops. Also flat, which counts for more in this city than in most.
- The Colstonfrom £260/week
- Market Quarter Studiosfrom £365/week
- William & Matthew Houseprice on enquiry
Useful to know nearby
Places students in Bristol actually use. We have no arrangement with any of them.
- Bristol Central Library
On College Green next to the cathedral, free, and a flat walk from the harbourside blocks. Rare in this city, the flat part.
- St Nicholas Market
Covered market in the old city with the cheapest lunch in central Bristol. Most of the stalls are weekdays only.
- Watershed
Independent cinema on the harbourside with student tickets, and a bar upstairs that doubles as an afternoon study space.
- The Bristol Bike Project
A co-op selling refurbished second-hand bikes, with workshops where you fix your own. Useful in a city built on hills.
A few Bristol buildings worth a look
Picked by distance, price and choice, measured from the listings on this page. Not a ranking, and not a recommendation: the numbers are what they are on the day you read this.
- Cathedral Parkunder 0.1 miles
Closest to University of Bristol
- The Propeller Quarterfrom £180/week
Lowest listed rent here
- Glassworks15 room types
Most room types to choose from
What to know before choosing a room in Bristol
A city-by-city note about the decisions that change your daily routine. Prices and availability remain live in the listings above.
Bristol is two student cities that happen to share a name. The University of Bristol sits in and around Clifton in the middle of town. UWE's main campus is at Frenchay, four miles north. A room that is a ten minute walk for one is a daily bus for the other, and that single fact decides more about a Bristol address than the rent does.
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Room types, what bills included really covers, when to book, and what to check if you are arriving from abroad.
Comparing rents? What a student room costs in Bristol and seven other UK cities
Other student cities in the UK
Comparing options? These are the other cities in the UK where most students on our shortlist are basing themselves.
Getting around Bristol
Bristol is hilly and the walk back up to Clifton is steeper than a map suggests, so check your route in both directions before you commit. Metrobus runs the main north and south corridors, including the m1 towards UWE Frenchay, and Gloucester Road carries frequent services into the centre. Cycling is popular and the Bristol to Bath Railway Path is genuinely useful if you are living east. Temple Meads is the main rail station and sits slightly outside the centre, which matters if you plan to travel home often.
Frequently asked questions
- 34 buildings in Bristol publish a starting price, from £180 to £387 a week, and half of them start under £255. Most of the difference is area and room type rather than one or two outliers. Each figure is the cheapest room in that building, so compare the room lists rather than the headline.
- Everything we list in Bristol is in Clifton and Clifton Village, Redland and Cotham, Kingsdown and Stokes Croft, and Harbourside and city centre. Buildings are filed by their coordinates, not by the area their marketing claims, so the table above puts each one where it actually stands.
- Nearly all of them: 43 of 51. The remaining 8 publish nothing either way, which is not the same as charging extra, and each property page says which of the two it is.