Temple Cloud () is a village in the
Chew Valley in
Somerset on the
A37 road. It is in the civil parish of
Temple Cloud with Cameley
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and in the council area of
Bath and North East Somerset. It is from
Bristol and from the town of
Midsomer Norton
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. The villages of
Cameley and
Clutton are nearby.
The Temple in the place name possibly relates to the
Knights Templar
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who held the manors of Cameley and Cloud around 1200.
[This is not confirmed and there are several theories about the derivation of the name. it has been suggested that there may have been a Roman temple in the area. ] Cloud is thought to come from the personal name Cloda. It has been suggested that Cloud derives from the Old English ‘clud’ meaning rocky outcrop (the neighbouring village Clutton has the same derivation).
There were several
coal mines in and around the village as a part of the
Somerset coalfield, but these have all since closed.
Government and politics
Temple Cloud is part of the Mendip Ward, which is represented by one councillor on the
Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority, which has responsibilities for services such as education, refuse, tourism etc. Mendip ward stretches from ''Temple Cloud'' to
East Harptree. The total population of the ward taken at the
2011 census was 2,683.
The village is a part of the
North East Somerset
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Boundaries
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constituency. Prior to
Brexit in 2020, it was a part of the
South West England constituency of the European Parliament.
Demographics
According to the 2001 Census, the Mendip Ward (which includes West Harptree and Hinton Blewett), had 1,465 residents, living in 548 households, with an average age of 39.0 years. Of these 79% of residents describing their health as 'good', 22% of 16- to 74-year-olds had no qualifications; and the area had an unemployment rate of 1.5% of all economically active people aged 16–74. In the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004, it was ranked at 25,387 out of 32,482 wards in England, where 1 was the most deprived LSOA and 32,482 the least deprived.
Church
Temple Cloud is included in the
Anglican
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parish of
Clutton with
Cameley.
Its church is located in the centre of the village; built in the 1920s, it was dedicated to
St Barnabas in 1926.
Notable buildings
Temple Cloud has a number of buildings that are listed for their historical or heritage value, including the Temple Inn.
The Old Court is a Grade II listed former magistrates' court house with police cells, built in 1857 in
baronial style.
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Villages in Bath and North East Somerset