CONSIDERATIONS TO KNOW ABOUT ILTON AND MERRYFIELD IN SOMERSET

Bristol commenced to be a city on the Gloucestershire aspect on 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 independent through the counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... and that it should be a county by itself".[