[Talk-GB] Flatholm Island Boundary Problem

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Sat Sep 12 23:03:54 UTC 2020


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 <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> 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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