THE GREATEST GUIDE TO MERRYFEILD CASTLE AND THE MOATING STRONGHOLD

Bristol commenced to be a city to the Gloucestershire aspect with the Avon, but as it grew it prolonged across the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "which the town of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be separate from the counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... Which it ought to be a county by alone".[50]Por