If you think Bristol or Aberdeen are mad then try Norwich:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/172506
Again presumably due to Norwich's history as a port and therefore
having control of the river.
Tom
On 12/09/2020 22:53, Russ Garrett wrote:
Yeah, I assume what happened is that the City of Bristol ended up, at
some point, as a statutory port authority (which I think they were
until 1991), and somehow the boundary from that has remained as their
local authority boundary. But it's still a fairly unique situation as
there are many other harbours with statutory port authorities where
this anomaly doesn't exist.
I'm fairly sure that Bristol boundary does not coincide with the
current limits of the Port of Bristol. Aberdeen has a small seaward
extension which also doesn't appear to coincide with their current
port authority limits either. So it's not clear what these seaward
extensions currently achieve.
I'd love to find the actual legislation which created this...
Russ
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 22:24, Mark Goodge <[email protected]> wrote:
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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