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BA Postcode Area
The BA postcode area, also known as the Bath postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of nineteen postcode districts in South West England, within sixteen post towns. These cover east Somerset (including Bath, Yeovil, Bruton, Castle Cary, Frome, Glastonbury, Radstock, Shepton Mallet, Street, Templecombe, Wells and Wincanton) and west Wiltshire (including Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge, Warminster and Westbury), plus a very small part of north-west Dorset. __TOC__ Coverage The approximate coverage of the postcode districts: , - ! BA1 , BATH , Bath north of the Avon, Batheaston, Bathford , Bath and North East Somerset , - ! BA2 , BATH , Bath south of the Avon, Farmborough, Timsbury, Peasedown St John, Wellow, Hinton Charterhouse, Norton St Philip, Freshford, Limpley Stoke , Bath and North East Somerset, Mendip, Wiltshire , - ! BA3 , RADSTOCK , Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Holcombe, Coleford , Bath and North East Somerset, Mendip , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South West England
South West England, or the South West of England, is one of nine official regions of England. It consists of the counties of Bristol, Cornwall (including the Isles of Scilly), Dorset, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. Cities and large towns in the region include Bath, Somerset, Bath, Bristol, Bournemouth, Cheltenham, Exeter, Gloucester, Plymouth and Swindon. It is geographically the largest of the nine regions of England covering , but the third-least populous, with approximately five million residents. The region includes the West Country and much of the ancient kingdom of Wessex. It includes two entire national parks of England and Wales, national parks, Dartmoor and Exmoor (a small part of the New Forest is also within the region); and four List of World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom, World Heritage Sites: Stonehenge, the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, the Jurassic Coast and the Bath, Somerset, City of Bath. The northern part of Gloucestershi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trowbridge
Trowbridge ( ) is the county town of Wiltshire, England, on the River Biss in the west of the county. It is near the border with Somerset and lies southeast of Bath, 31 miles (49 km) southwest of Swindon and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Bristol. The town had a population of 37,169 in 2021. Long a market town, the Kennet and Avon canal to the north of Trowbridge played an instrumental part in the town's development as it allowed coal to be transported from the Somerset Coalfield and so marked the advent of steam-powered manufacturing in woollen cloth mills. The town was the foremost producer of this mainstay of contemporary clothing and blankets in south west England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, by which time it held the nickname "The Manchester of the West". The civil parish of Trowbridge had a population of 33,108 at the 2011 census. The parish encompasses the settlements of Longfield, Lower Studley, Upper Studley, Studley Green and Trowle Common. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freshford, Somerset
Freshford is a village and civil parish in the Avon valley south-east of Bath, in the county of Somerset, England. The parish has a population of 551. It is in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), within the Green Belt and is in a conservation area. The village of Freshford includes the smaller hamlets of Friary, Sharpstone, Park Corner, Woodside and Staples Hill, which are separated from the village centre by a few hundred metres of open fields. The village history goes back to Saxon times and it expanded with the growth of local industry but is now largely residential. History The village has existed since Saxon times, and existed before the land at ''Fersceforde'' was given to Bath Abbey after the Norman Conquest. A mill existed here as early as 1086 and there are still remains of one built in the 1540s. Freshford was part of the hundred of Bath Forum. Freshford Bridge over the River Frome dates from the early to mid 16th century. In the 19th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norton St Philip
Norton St Philip is a village and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. The village lies about south of the city of Bath and north of the town of Frome on the eastern slopes of the Mendip Hills. It is situated on the A366 between Trowbridge and Radstock, and on the B3110 between Bath and Frome. New development greatly increased the size of the village in the later 20th century, but there has been a significant reduction in services, with the police station, post office and shops all having closed. This was partly reversed by the opening of a new supermarket, incorporating a post office, in 2016. History The earliest signs of habitation can be found a mile to the east of the current village, where the Roman road from Bath to Poole passed. The village is later recorded in the Domesday book as supporting 20 people, three ploughs, a mill and of meadow. A priory was founded near the village in 1232 and had links with the village until its dissolution under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinton Charterhouse
__NOTOC__ Hinton may refer to: Places Australia *Hinton, New South Wales Canada *Hinton, Alberta ** Hinton/Entrance Airport ** Hinton/Jasper-Hinton Airport ** Hinton CN railway station England * Hinton, Dorset, a civil parish **Hinton Martell, Dorset ** Hinton Parva, Dorset *Hinton, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire *Hinton, Stroud, Gloucestershire, a village near Berkeley * Hinton, Hampshire * Hinton, Herefordshire *Hinton, Northamptonshire * Hinton, Shropshire * Hinton, Somerset * Hinton, Suffolk *Hinton Admiral, Hampshire ** Hinton Admiral railway station *Hinton Ampner, Hampshire *Hinton Blewett, Somerset *Hinton Charterhouse, Somerset *Hinton Daubney, Hampshire *Hinton Parva, Wiltshire, also known as Little Hinton *Hinton St George, Somerset *Hinton St Mary, Dorset *Hinton Waldrist, Oxfordshire *Hinton-in-the-Hedges, Northamptonshire *Hinton on the Green, Worcestershire *Broad Hinton, Wiltshire *Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire *Great Hinton, Wiltshire *Tarrant Hinton, Dors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellow, Somerset
Wellow is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Somerset, England, about south of Bath, Somerset, Bath. The parish, which includes the hamlet (place), hamlets of Twinhoe, White Ox Mead, Baggridge and part of Midford has a population of 529. The village itself falls within the southernmost boundary of the Cotswolds, Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is recognised as having special architectural and historic interest, which led to it being designated as a Conservation Area in 1983. History There is a low water crossing (Irish Bridge) and late Middle Ages, mediaeval packhorse bridge over Wellow Brook, Somerset, Wellow Brook. A little further west is the Neolithic chambered tomb known as Stoney Littleton Long Barrow. The Long Barrow, which is also known as Bath Tumulus and the Wellow Tumulus, is a Neolithic chambered tomb with multiple burial chambers. The barrow is about in length and wide at the south-east end, it stands nearly high. Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peasedown St John
Peasedown St John (commonly referred to as Peasedown) is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, standing on a hilltop roughly south-southwest of the city of Bath, and north-east of the town of Radstock at the foot of the Mendip Hills. Peasedown used to be a coal mining village, and after the last of the mines shut in the 1970s it became a dormitory village for Bath, Trowbridge and to a lesser extent Bristol. Its size was increased by substantial housing developments in the 1960s, 1970s and late 1990s, making it one of the largest villages in Somerset. History Archaeological and documentary evidence shows that the site has been occupied from at least the early Iron Age. There is good evidence of Roman and Saxon villages in the area, the Saxon settlements resulting in several entries in the Domesday Book of 1086. The medieval settlement of Eckweek was excavated in 1989, and now lies under the Peasedown Bypass and Underknoll Road. The present village of Peasedown St Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timsbury, Somerset
Timsbury is a village and civil parish in England, in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority of the county of Somerset. It lies south-west of Bath, close to the Cam Brook river. The parish, which includes the hamlets of Radford and Wall Mead, and part of Meadgate hamlet, had a population of 2,624 in 2011. History The village has been known as Timfborough, Tymmersbarue, Timsbarrow (meaning Timbered grove), Timsbyre (wooded hillside) and Temsbury throughout its long history. Timsbury has been a settlement since the Bronze Age. Among the earliest written records is entry in the Norman Domesday Book of 1086: "Williams holds Timsbury from the Bishop of Coutance. Ape held it before 1066. It paid tax for 3 hides, land for 3 ploughs, in lordship, 1 plough, 2 slaves, one and one half hides, 2 villagers and 1 smallholder with 1 plough and one and one half hides, 2 parts of a mill which pays two shillings, meadow 26 acres. Pasture as well, 1 cob, 9 cattle, 14 pigs and 60 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farmborough
Farmborough is a small village and civil parish, south west of Bath in Somerset, England. It straddles both the A39 and A368 roads. The parish has a population of 1,035. History The Farmborough Hoard of Iron Age coins was found in the village in 1984 and is now in the British Museum. The parish of Farmborough was part of the Keynsham Hundred, The village has historically been connected with the coal mines of the Somerset coalfield, but these are all now closed. Farmborough Church of England VC Primary School was built in 1857, and now has 90 pupils between the ages of 4 and 11 years. The school intake figures have shown a gradual decline in attendance in recent years. In 2007 the local community pre-school playgroup moved into an unused classroom at the school site and a breakfast club was established to assist working parents to leave their children in a safe environment prior to school opening hours. Author Dick King-Smith once taught at the school. Governance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bath And North East Somerset
Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) is a unitary authority district in England. Bath and North East Somerset Council was created on 1 April 1996 following the abolition of the county of Avon. It is part of the ceremonial county of Somerset. The unitary authority provides a single tier of local government with responsibility for almost all local government functions within the district, including local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection, recycling, cemeteries, crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism. It is also responsible for education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning, although fire, police and ambulance services are provided jointly with other authorities through the Avon Fire and Rescue Service, Avon and Somerset Constabulary and the South Western Ambulance Service. Its administrative headquarters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathford
Bathford (pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable) is a village and civil parish east of Bath, England. The parish, which includes Warleigh, has a population of 1,759 and extends over . History The ancient charter ''Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici'' describes a manor parish consisting of three tithings or quasi manors: Bathford in the centre, Shockerwick to the north, and Warley arleighto the south. This corresponds closely to the current boundaries. This manor was known as ''Forde'' up until the seventeenth century; the name was derived from the ford that crosses the By Brook, connecting Bathford to neighbouring Batheaston. Near the river crossing is the site of a Roman villa, the hypocaust of which was found about the middle of the seventeenth century. This villa is described in John Aubrey's '' Monumenta Britannica'': The ford from which the village derived its name was connected with the Fosse Way. This is mentioned in a Saxon charter of the tenth cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batheaston
Batheaston is a village and civil parish east of the English city of Bath, on the north bank of the River Avon. The parish had a population of 2,735 in 2011. The northern area of the parish, on the road to St Catherine, is an area known as Northend. Batheaston has been twinned with Oudon, France since 2005. History Batheaston is named ''Estone'' in the 1086 ''Domesday Book'', which recorded a population of 48 households. Batheaston was part of the hundred of Bath Forum. In the 16th century the Lord of the Manor was John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford. In the 18th century, Sir John Riggs Miller, 1st Baronet and Anna, Lady Miller held a much-mocked fortnightly literary salon along with competitions and prizes at their house in the village. Distinguished contributions were received from the likes of David Garrick, Christopher Anstey and the poet Anna Seward. Governance The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
