It lies north of Park Row and Queen's Road, east of Whiteladies Road and west of St Michael's Hill, between the districts of Clifton, Cotham and Kingsdown.

The area is named after Thomas Tyndall,[1] a Bristol merchant and investor in the slave trade,[citation needed] who between 1753 and 1767 bought a number of fields which then existed in the area and turned them into an ornamental park.

In 1852 the Tyndalls began selling off the remainder of the western half of the park for development, and in 1877 5 acres (20,000 m2) were sold for a new building for Bristol Grammar School.

The Royal Fort was occupied by members of the Tyndall family until 1916, when Henry Herbert Wills bought it and gave it to the University.

[4] The following suburbs are in the same urban area, but lie in South Gloucestershire or North Somerset: