THE SMART TRICK OF THE SCOURTS AND THE VILLAGE IF ILTON THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

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