MERRYFIELD AIRFIELD AND THE USAF AND THE RAF IN 1944 OPTIONS

Bristol commenced like a city to the Gloucestershire aspect from the Avon, but because it grew it prolonged over the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "that the city of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be separate within the counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... Which it should be a county by alone".[fifty