GLASTONBURY IN SOMERSET THE THE MOATING STONE - AN OVERVIEW

Bristol began like a town on the Gloucestershire side in the Avon, but since it grew it prolonged through the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "which the town of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be individual from the counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... and that it ought to be a county by alone".[fifty]