THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR IN SOMERSET

Bristol started being a city on the Gloucestershire aspect in the Avon, but since it grew it extended over the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "the city of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be individual in the counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... and that it ought to be a county by by itself".[50]’ We