MERRYFIELD AIRFIELD AND THE USAF AND THE RAF IN 1944 OPTIONS

Bristol started as being a town around the Gloucestershire side on the Avon, but since it grew it prolonged over the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "which the town of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be separate from the counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... and that it ought to be a county by by itself