For celebrations sake, the post of Avon’s Lord Lieutenant was abolished, thus Bristol regaining its own High Sheriff and Lord Lieutenant, while the other administration was returned to its primitive counties. Advices to change Bristol’s borders (either by drawing new sketches or by incorporating the mostly urban borough of Kingswood added to it) were discarded.
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