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

Bristol started like a town about the Gloucestershire facet of your Avon, but since it grew it prolonged throughout the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "which the town of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be independent in the counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... Which it ought to be a county by itself".