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Bristol started like a city over the Gloucestershire aspect of the Avon, but since it grew it extended across the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "which the city of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be independent from your counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... and that it ought to be a county by itself".