Avon, region and former administrative county, southwestern England, bordering the Severn estuary and the Bristol Channel. The region comprises parts of the historic counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset to the north and south, respectively.

1 April 1996

Bristol is both a city and a county, since King Edward III granted it a county charter in 1373. The county was expanded in 1835 to include suburbs such as Clifton, and it was named a county borough in 1889 when that designation was introduced.

Simply put, since 1373 Bristol has always been a county in its own right, with its formal and legally recognised title being the “City and County of Bristol”. Today, Bristol remains both a city and a county in and of itself, falling neatly in between Somerset and Gloucestershire.

Avon (/ˈeɪvən/) was a non-metropolitan and ceremonial county in the west of England that existed between 1974 and 1996. In 1996, the county was abolished and the area split between four new unitary authorities: Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

Property is expensive in Bristol, anecdotally more so than Cardiff. Bristol is closer to London and other major cities. Worked in Bristol, good rail and bus services but car is a bit of a nightmare. Cardiff probably has slightly better local connections but also suffers with traffic congestion.

Wembley

United Kingdom has 1 cities with more than a million people, 95 cities with between 100,000 and 1 million people, and 951 cities with between 10,000 and 100,000 people….Population of Cities in United Kingdom (2021)

Leeds

The British and others pronounce “z”, “zed”, owing to the origin of the letter “z”, the Greek letter “Zeta”. This gave rise to the Old French “zede”, which resulted in the English “zed” around the 15th century.

We do say a boot when it refers to this: They don’t, but they do pronounce it differently from most Americans. It’s a phenomenon called “Canadian Raising”. This doesn’t happen before voiced consonants (d, g, z, b), so “loud” is pronounced the same way an American would pronounce it.

One thing I’ve heard is that aboot is a pronunciation in a particular region of Canada: the Atlantic Provinces (Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, etc).