LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE SCOURTS AND THE VILLAGE IF ILTON.

Bristol began like a town around the Gloucestershire side of the Avon, but since it grew it extended across the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "the city of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be separate with the counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... and that it ought to be a county by itself".[fifty][fort