On 12/09/2020 21:23, Russ Garrett wrote:
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!)
AIUI, it's because it's the historic maritime navigation route into
Bristol and Avonmouth. The simplified constituency boundary map is,
possibly a little bizarrely, one of the best visualisations of that:
https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/3368/location
See also this Admiralty chart for the Bristol Channel - you can see that
the "Bristol Deep" channel passes between the two islands and leads into
the harbour:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0278/1529/products/OCB-1179.jpg
Mark
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