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Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] question
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:38:53 EST

In a message dated 02/11/2005 15:11:03 GMT Standard Time,
writes:
Bristol would have been in Somerset back then.
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Bristol has never been in Somerset, historically it has always been in
Gloucestershire, The Avon traditionally marks the border between Gloucestershire
and Somerset.
Bristol became a county by Charter of Edward III on 8 August 1373 and
remained so until 1 April 1974.
Over the years there were various city boundary extensions; for example
Bedminster which originally lay in Somerset came to be included within Bristol in
1835 and a similar extension took in Knowle and Totterdown in 1897.
In 1974 Bristol became a district of the newly formed administrative County
of Avon. When that county was abolished on the 1st April 1996, Bristol
returned to its former status of a city and county in itself.
Regards Stan Mapstone
www.mapstone.org

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