INDICATORS ON THE SCOURTS AND THE VILLAGE IF ILTON YOU SHOULD KNOW

Bristol began for a city within the Gloucestershire facet with the Avon, but as it grew it prolonged throughout the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "that the city of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be individual from your counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... and that it ought to be a county by itself".