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<p>This anomaly gives rise to the situation that there is a triangle (more or less) of water near Flat Holm which is simultaneously within the jurisdiction of Wales and the City of Bristol. It probably only matters for things like fishing, as that was basically the reason to define clearly the maritime boundary between England and Wales, fishing and the marine environment (up to 12nm) being Devolved Powers. The City of Bristol is probably the only cross-border local authority in the UK....</p>
<p>On 2020-09-12 19:53, Russ Garrett wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Oh wait, I remember now. This is correct for extremely stupid reasons<br /> relating to the boundaries of the county of Bristol including a large<br /> chunk of the Bristol Channel.<br /> <br /> I can confirm the boundary in OSM matches the one in OS Boundary Line.<br /> That relation could probably do with a note tag on it, though.<br /> <br /> Cheers,<br /> <br /> Russ<br /> <br /> On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 18:48, Russ Garrett <<a href="mailto:russ@garrett.co.uk">russ@garrett.co.uk</a>> wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><br /> I'm pretty sure Flat Holm is part of Cardiff - Steep Holm is in<br /> England but it also isn't in Bristol as far as I know. There's<br /> definitely something weird going on with the boundaries there but it<br /> also looks like nothing has changed around there in a while. Curious.<br /> <br /> On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 18:39, Brian Prangle <<a href="mailto:bprangle@gmail.com">bprangle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><br /> This island, in the bristol Channel between Weston super Mare and Barry seems to be in two countries at once. It's on the Welsh side of the national boundary but also in South West England City of Bristol. This is either a map error with the Welsh boundary or a legal anomaly I don't know which. If it's one of those legal quirks then wouldn't it be better as an exclave of England in Wales?<br /> <br /> Apologies if this has come up before.<br /> <br /> Regards<br /> <br /> Brian<br /> _______________________________________________<br /> Talk-GB mailing list<br /> <a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br /> <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a></blockquote>
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