CONSIDERATIONS TO KNOW ABOUT ILTON AND MERRYFIELD IN SOMERSET

Bristol began like a city over the Gloucestershire facet on the Avon, but because it grew it prolonged through the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "which the city of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be separate within the counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... Which it ought to be a county by itself".[50]