CONSIDERATIONS TO KNOW ABOUT ILTON AND MERRYFIELD IN SOMERSET

Bristol commenced like a town within the Gloucestershire side on 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 different from your counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... Which it ought to be a county by alone".[50