I've foolishly now decided to try to get to the bottom of it - the beating of the bounds still doesn't explain why exactly it covers that area (although I'm impressed that the Lord Mayor managed to commandeer a warship to do so!)
Incidentally, the OSM wiki page for Wales claims that the sea boundary between Wales and England is not well-defined: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wales#Boundary Cheers, Russ On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 21:12, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "extremely stupid reasons" in this case relates to an very old tradition > where the Lord Mayor of Bristol 'beats the bounds' of the city by > rowing/sailing out to the islands. > > As a consequence a small wedge of the city of Bristol bounds lies within > Welsh water. > > You get a similar situation with Denny Island which lies within English > waters but is part of Monmouthshire. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7019663.stm > > https://web.archive.org/web/20071012220607/http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/press-releases/2007/sep/beating-bristols-water-boundary.en > > Best regards > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Russ Garrett r...@garrett.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
