HOW MUCH YOU NEED TO EXPECT YOU'LL PAY FOR A GOOD MERRYFEILD CASTLE AND THE MOATING STRONGHOLD

Bristol commenced to be a town on the Gloucestershire side on the Avon, but as it grew it extended through the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "that the town of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be different through the counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... and that it ought to be a county by itself".[fif