Winscombe (Somerset)
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 19 ′ N , 2 ° 50 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | ST425575 | ||
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| Residents | 4546 (as of 2011) | ||
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| Post town | WINSCOMBE | ||
| ZIP code section | BS | ||
| prefix | 01934 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South West England | ||
| Shire county | Somerset | ||
| District | North Somerset | ||
| British Parliament | Weston-super-Mare | ||
Winscombe is a village in the North Somerset District in Somerset , south west England .
geography
Winscombe is located about 14 miles southwest of Bristol in the Mendip Hills . The Lox Yeo River , a short tributary of the River Ax, has its source in the municipality .
history
Traces of human activity in the Winscombe area date back to the Paleolithic : When a rugby field was being built, a hand ax was found that was made sometime between 300,000–140,000 years ago. The standing stone Wimblestone comes from the Neolithic and , according to legend, wanders around the area at night. A barrow dates from the Bronze Age and a bronze ax from that period was found. In the Iron Age , two hill forts were built on nearby hilltops : Banwell Camp and Dolebury Warren . During Roman times, a villa rustica was built in the neighboring village of Shipham . Lead , zinc , ocher and limestone have been mined in the surrounding hills at least since the time of the Romans .
The place was first mentioned in the tenth century: King Edgar is said to have assigned 15 hides of land in Winscombe to a lady named Aelfswith during his reign (959-975) . She later went to a convent as a nun and after her death Glastonbury Abbey appears as the owner of this land. The place is also listed in the Domesday Book and with 37 households it was larger than average compared to other listed places. For 1066 Glastonbury Abbey and another feudal lord are recorded as landlords , for 1086 in addition to Glastonbury Abbey also Geoffroy de Montbray and three other liege lords. St. James the Great Church was dedicated on August 26, 1236 by Bishop Jocelin of Wells . The building in its current form dates from the 15th century. The church is a Grade I listed building under monument protection. The church bells were cast by the Bilbie family in 1773 . In 1903 two new additional bells increased the total to eight. With the opening of a station on the Cheddar Valley and Yatton Railway in 1869, the place was connected to the rail network, which opened up new economic opportunities, as agricultural products and limestone could now be easily transported to a wider range of customers. In 1963 the line was shut down and today there is a hiking and cycling path on the former route.
administration
Winscombe belonged from 1894 to the implementation of the Local Government Act 1972 to Axbridge Rural District of the County of Somerset. From 1974 to 1996 it was part of the Woodspring District in the County of Avon . This was dissolved in another administrative reform in 1996 and Woodspring became an independent Unitary Authority North Somerset , which only belongs to the ceremonial county of Somerset .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Brinkhoff: Winscombe (North Somerset in South West England). In: citypopulation.de. November 23, 2016, accessed August 18, 2017 .
- ^ Phil Harding , Mick Aston : The Context and Significance of a Palaeolithic Hand Ax from Winscombe. (PDF; 578 KB) Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2008, accessed on August 18, 2017 .
- ↑ The Wimblestone. Holed Stone in England in Somerset. In: megalithic.co.uk. February 4, 2004, accessed August 18, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c History. Winscombe and Sandford Parish Council, June 29, 2017, accessed August 18, 2017 .
- ^ Johnny Kingdom: Johnny Kingdom's West Country Tales . Random House, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4090-4372-0 , pp. 162 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Star Roman villa, 275m north east of Wimblestone. Historic England , 2017, accessed August 18, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Andrew Plaister: Winscombe. In: B & AFHS Journal 159. The Bristol & Avon Family History Society, May 2015, accessed August 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Mick Aston, Michael Costen: An Early Medieval Secular and Ecclesiastical Estate: The Origins of the Parish of Winscombe in North Somerset . In: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Ed.): Somerset archeology and natural history. Proceedings . tape 151 , 2008, p. 139 ff . (English, available online [PDF]).
- ^ Anna Powell-Smith: Winscombe. In: Open Domesday. Retrieved August 18, 2017 .
- ^ Theodore Compton: A Mendip Valley: its inhabitants and surroundings, being an enlarged and illustrated ed. Of Winscombe sketches . E. Stanford, London 1892, p. 56 (English, available online at archive.org).
- ^ Church of St James. Historic England, 2017, accessed August 18, 2017 .