THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO ENGLISH HERITAGE SITE OF INTEREST AT ILTON IN SOMERSET

Bristol commenced for a town within the Gloucestershire aspect on the Avon, but because it grew it prolonged through the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "the town of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be separate within the counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... and that it ought to be a county by alone".[5