Catherine: Hi Julia, how are you? Julia: Hi Catherine. Im fine. How are you?

Where did you go last week? I called at your number and it was your answering machine that replied. C: well, I went to my ancestral house in Avon. J: thats great. What did you see that? C: oh, it was a great week. The county came into formal existence on 1 April 1974 when the Local Government Act 1972 came into effect. The new county consisted of the areas of: The county boroughs of Bristol and Bath, Part of the Administrative County of Gloucestershire: Kingswood Urban District, Mangotsfield Urban District Warmley Rural District, most of Sodbury Rural District and most of Thornbury Rural District Part of the Administrative County of Somerset: Municipal Borough of Weston-super-Mare Clevedon Urban District, Keynsham Urban District, Norton-Radstock Urban District, Portishead Urban District, Bathavon Rural District, Long Ashton Rural District, part of Axbridge Rural District and part of Clutton Rural District. The county was divided into six districts. Bristol and Bath had identical boundaries to the former county boroughs. In the north the urban districts of Kingswood and Mangotsfield formed a single District of Kingswood, with the rest of the areas transferred from Gloucestershire becoming Northavon. In the south, there were two districts, Woodspring, on the coast, and Wansdyke, in the interior. J: ok. C: To the north the county bordered Gloucestershire, to the east Wiltshire and to the south Somerset. In the west it had a coast on the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel. The area of Avon was 1,347 square kilometres (520 sq mi) and its population in 1991 was 919,800. Cities and towns in Avon included (in approximate order of population) Bristol, Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Yate, Clevedon, Portishead, Midsomer Norton & Radstock, Bradley Stoke, Nailsea, Yatton, Keynsham and Thornbury. J: well, i will come in the evenng today to your house. Let me listen to the detail of your trip then. C: alright. Bye.

J: bye.