lincolnreds Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Please can you resolve a debate that I am having with my boss Is Ashton Gate in the county of Gloucestershire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusX Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Google Maps says Avon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Please can you resolve a debate that I am having with my boss Is Ashton Gate in the county of Gloucestershire? Wrong side of the city for that. Ashton Gate is in the City and County of Bristol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodbarmyarmy Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Please can you resolve a debate that I am having with my boss Is Ashton Gate in the county of Gloucestershire? No....it is in the City & county of Bristol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeak Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Avon doesn't exist any more. Therefore, Ashton Gate is actually in the ceremonial county of Bristol. At least according to Wikipedia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristoliain Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 but close to the north somerset border Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redminster Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Wrong side of the city for that. Ashton Gate is in the City and County of Bristol. Does anyone else get mildly annoyed when they get letters to Bristol, Avon or Bristol, Somerset or Bristol, Gloucestershire? Is it that hard for big companies to update their databases so that they just have "Bristol" for the county? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garlicbread Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 but close to the north somerset border If the plans are anything to go by, the new ground will be in North Somerset (unless they expand the boundaries) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Does anyone else get mildly annoyed when they get letters to Bristol, Avon or Bristol, Somerset or Bristol, Gloucestershire? Is it that hard for big companies to update their databases so that they just have "Bristol" for the county? It really pisses off the Avon and Somerset Police!! They spend all their time looking for criminals in Avon!!! Confuses the hell out of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Miggins Pie Shop Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 As everyone has so rightly already responded, Bristol enjoys the status of both City and County. "Several English rulers granted charters to Bristol but the most important was that of 1373. In this year Edward III granted a Great Charter of Liberties to the mayor and burgesses giving the borough county status in its own right". Just after Bristol celebrated 500 years of its royal charter in 1973, the administrative County of Avon was formed in 1974 from the City of Bath, the City and County of Bristol, the southern part of the County of Gloucestershire and the northern part of the County of Somerset. Not before time it was abolished in 1996, so we have back our rightful status of City and County! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bringbacktherobin Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Google Maps says Avon Annoys me when people say Avon, doesn't exist. We have been a county since 1373, we should be proud of this fact not a lot of other cities can say that they are there own county. You just cant go making up county's when the officials like it. Is Ashton Gate in the county of Gloucestershire? Of course i isn't, were not up north are we. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderHider Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Well the new stadiums ground is not in the City of Bristol, but when its finished it will be, the council will expend the bounderys to enclose it. job done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Wrong side of the city for that. Ashton Gate is in the City and County of Bristol. is the correct answer. As is the site for the new stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Well the new stadiums ground is not in the City of Bristol, but when its finished it will be, the council will expend the bounderys to enclose it. job done. The new site is definitely already within the city limits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderHider Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 The new site is definitely already within the city limits. I was actually going to quote your good self in my previous thread, Nibor. Did you once say the site was not initially in the City limits and we had to get the boundry extended? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beau45 Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Is Ashton Gate in the county of Gloucestershire? Of course i isn't, were not up north are we. Gloucestershire is hardly north Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bringbacktherobin Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Gloucestershire is hardly north Course it is, north of ashton gate, thus its up north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 I was actually going to quote your good self in my previous thread, Nibor. Did you once say the site was not initially in the City limits and we had to get the boundry extended? I think I said something like even if it isn't the boundary will be extended when they build the ring road extension however someone posted a map showing the boundary since then with the new site showing as inside it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddevon Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 It was the Bristol 600 Mrs Miggins..... remember it well, a big do up the downs... another great Bristolian saying ..Up the Downs! I also hate the Avon bit...was great when I lived in BS1 which has no area name used to fill in my adress with Bristol, Bristol. Bristol for the last three lines. Perhaps the club should be re-named Bristol City and County! Can understand Derby County but why Stockport or Newport County? Up the City or should we say Up the County!! :noexpression: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Dazzler Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Annoys me when people say Avon, doesn't exist. The County of Avon ceased to exist in 1996, and yet a number of organisations are still referred to as Avon "something or other" and such organisations will adminstratively cover the old county of avon area which now consists of Bristol, South Glos (formerly Northavon and Kingswood Borough), Bath and N.E Somerest (formerly Bath and Wansdyke) and North Somerset (formerly Woodspring). We therefore have Avon represented in Avon and Somerset Police, Avon Fire Brigade, Avon Ambulance Trust (which I think is still going). If you have to register a death within the abovementioned area and a post mortem has taken place, then it will have been authorised by The Coroner for the District of Avon. Employees of each of these 4 "unitary authority" councils pay into the Avon Pension Fund. There are probably a few more examples, maybe that is enough for now! And, yes, Ashton Gate and the new stadium are definitely in Bristol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanut Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Bristol City Council staff also pay in to the Avon Pension Fund, so it does still exist! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bringbacktherobin Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Not it doest exist, just the name used. How can it exist when its not a county any more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chaplain Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 It was the Bristol 600 Mrs Miggins..... remember it well, a big do up the downs... another great Bristolian saying ..Up the Downs! I also hate the Avon bit...was great when I lived in BS1 which has no area name used to fill in my adress with Bristol, Bristol. Bristol for the last three lines. Perhaps the club should be re-named Bristol City and County! Can understand Derby County but why Stockport or Newport County? Up the City or should we say Up the County!! :noexpression: Bristol 600 'up the downs' I remember that too ... 'It's a Knockout' with Stuart Hall and Eddie Waring ... happy days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Miggins Pie Shop Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 It was the Bristol 600 Mrs Miggins..... remember it well, a big do up the downs... another great Bristolian saying ..Up the Downs! One of the events of the 70s! I remember going Up the Downs for the celebrations, including a scout and guide jamboree. Doesn't sound much now, but it was big event at the time. We all went up to watch It's a Knockout remembered by The Chaplain - what fun, they should bring it back! So many forms insist on you putting in a County - but be strong, resist! If you can't leave it blank, put in Bristol again! As people have said, other than in name only, there's no Avon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calculus Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Was talking to a former Avon employee who still mourns the loss of that pointless organisation. He managed to refer to the current Unitary Authorities of Bristol, South Gloucestershite, North Someret and Bath and NE Somerset as "Cuba". Apparently Cuba stands for the "Counties that Used to Be Avon" to these numpties. On no account should they be humoured: it's the City and County of ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basso for Brazil Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 According to wikipedia "Following the 1990s local government reforms, Avon, Cleveland, Hereford and Worcester, and Humberside were abolished. This led to a resurrection of a distinction between the local government counties and the ceremonial or geographic counties used for Lieutenancy, and also to the adoption of the term 'ceremonial counties', which although not used in statute was used in the House of Commons prior to the arrangements coming into effect. [1] Avon was mostly split between Gloucestershire and Somerset, with Bristol regaining its status of a county of itself." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivalore (CTFC) Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Gloucestershire used to be a bigger county and Bristol used to be within the boundaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NATCHER Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Gloucestershire used to be a bigger county and Bristol used to be within the boundaries. I hope you're not suggesting the whole of Bristol was in Gastershire ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bringbacktherobin Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Why only true bristol is south of the river!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3012jack Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Gloucestershire used to be a bigger county and Bristol used to be within the boundaries. For just one moment forget football and think about that thing they play in the summer. you know 6 and out over the neighbours garden,and all that when your in your out and when your out your in, anyway GLOUCESTERSHIRE CCCs headquaters are in the county and city of Bristol, NOT AVON NOT GLOUCESTERSHIRE WORK THAT ONE OUT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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