CONSIDERATIONS TO KNOW ABOUT ILTON AND MERRYFIELD IN SOMERSET

Bristol began to be a city on the Gloucestershire aspect with the Avon, but as it grew it prolonged throughout the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "that the town of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be separate within the counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... and that it should be a county by by itself".[