Timsbury is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
in England, in the
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.
Th ...
unitary authority
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of the county of
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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. It lies south-west of
Bath, close to the
Cam Brook
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river. The parish, which includes the
hamlets
A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a lar ...
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
The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...
. Among the earliest written records is entry in the Norman
Domesday Book
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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
A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model. Definitions vary widely for what constitutes a smallholder or small-scale farm, including factors such as size, food production technique or technology ...
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 sheep, the value was 26 shillings, now 50 shillings."
The entry then goes on to describe the mill at Radford, to the south of the village.
The parish was part of the
hundred
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In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...
of
Chew
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.
![TIMS HSE](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/TIMS_HSE.jpg)
Timsbury House was a large mansion house owned by the Samborne family. Built towards the end of the 15th century by Richard Samborne. His successor Barnaby Samborne was knighted for his services to Queen
Elizabeth I
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El ...
. The building was demolished in 1961, and St. Marys Green and Somerset Folly estates now occupy the original site. One unusual feature of the estate was the presence of a
ha-ha
A ha-ha (french: hâ-hâ or ), also known as a sunk fence, blind fence, ditch and fence, deer wall, or foss, is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier (particularly on one side) while preserving an uninterrupted view ...
(sunken path). This was constructed to allow the Samborne family privacy from the local inhabitants as they passed the house.
Pitfour House in the High street was built in the mid 17th century. The terrace of houses at Crook Barton dates back to around 1700.
In 1795, the Gooseyard bridge in Timsbury parish was the starting point for the
Somerset Coal Canal
The Somerset Coal Canal (originally known as the Somersetshire Coal Canal) was a narrow canal in England, built around 1800. Its route began in basins at Paulton and Timsbury, ran to nearby Camerton, over two aqueducts at Dunkerton, through a ...
which served the seven coal mines at Amesbury, Mearns, Tyning, Hayeswood, Old Grove, and Upper and Lower Conygre,
around the village which formed a major part of the
Somerset Coalfield. Lower Conygre (Conigre in some old spellings) was sunk in 1847 and in 1896 was merged with the older Upper Congyre which had been started in 1791.
They were owned by Samborne Smith and Company in 1908,
and then by Beaumont, Kennedy and Co. The Amesbury pit opened before 1701 and closed in the early 19th century. Hayeswood colliery opened in 1750 and closed in 1862. Tyning opened in 1766 followed by Mearns which was sunk in 1783 and closed in 1824.
The canal was later replaced by a railway line in the early 1900s, the
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
Radford and Timsbury Halt served the needs of passengers from the village. The Coal canal brought prosperity to the village and several other large houses were built in the area. Renny's on Love's Hill, as was its neighbour, Vale House.
Parish's House on the south eastern side of the village was an 1816 extension of a much earlier house. It is attributed to
Thomas Baldwin of Bath for Captain Parish
R.N., is fronted by an ornate
balustrade
A baluster is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural features. In furniture construction it is known as a spindle. Common materials used in its con ...
, and includes a stable block from the same date.
Greenhill House was also constructed in the early 1800s. Originally owned by
St Johns Hospital in Bath, it has passed through the hands of various institutions during its history. It was eventually purchased by the charity originally known as The Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Sick, in 1976 it became the Leonard Cheshire Foundation. In July 2007 it changed to its current name,
Leonard Cheshire Disability
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Leonard Cheshire's aim ...
.
In 1978, the core of the village, centred around the Square and the High Street, was designated a
conservation area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...
, which is now considered "at risk". Many of its buildings constructed from the local
White Lias
The Lilstock Formation is a geologic formation in England. It preserves bivalve, insect and other invertebrate fossils, as well as fossil fish of '' Agkistracanthus mitgelensis'' and the basal theropod dinosaur '' Newtonsaurus cambrensis'' dati ...
stone in the 1700s are now protected from inappropriate development.
The Miners Memorial Garden, close to the Square, marks the village's long association with coal mining. It was in built in 1995 to mark the centenary of an underground explosion at Upper Conygre pit in 1895, which claimed the lives of seven miners and four horses.
Governance
![High Street, Timsbury](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/High_Street%2C_Timsbury.jpg)
Since 1894, the
parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and
neighbourhood watch
Neighbourhood Watch in the United Kingdom is the largest voluntary crime prevention movement covering England and Wales with upwards of 2.3 million household members. The charity brings neighbors together to create strong, friendly and active comm ...
groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, such as the
village hall
A village hall is a public building in a village used for various things such as:
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, a village hall is usually a building which contains at least one large room (plus kitchen and toilets), is owned by a local ...
or
community centre
Community centres, community centers, or community halls are public locations where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes. They may sometimes be open for the whole co ...
,
playing field
Play is a range of intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment. Play is commonly associated with children and juvenile-level activities, but may be engaged in at any life stage, and among other higher-functio ...
s and
playground
A playground, playpark, or play area is a place designed to provide an environment for children that facilitates play, typically outdoors. While a playground is usually designed for children, some are designed for other age groups, or people ...
s, community library, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also of interest to the council.
The parish falls within the
unitary authority
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of
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.
Th ...
which was created in 1996, as established by the
Local Government Act 1992
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. It provides a single tier of
local government
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with responsibility for almost all local government functions within its area including
local planning and
building control
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, local roads,
council housing
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,
environmental health
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, markets and fairs,
refuse collection
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,
recycling
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,
cemeteries
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...
,
crematoria
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Cremation may serve as a funeral or post-funeral rite and as an alternative to burial. In some countries, including India and Nepal, cremation on an open-air pyre i ...
, leisure services, parks, and tourism. They are also responsible for
education
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,
social services
Social services are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance towards particular groups, which commonly include the disadvantaged. They may be provided by individuals, private and independent organisations, or administe ...
,
libraries
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, main roads, public transport,
Trading Standards
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Sometimes, the Trading Standards enforcement functions of a local authority a ...
,
waste disposal
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This includes the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste, together with monitoring ...
and strategic planning, although fire, police and ambulance services are provided jointly with other authorities through the
Avon Fire and Rescue Service
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The headquarters of the service is co ...
,
Avon and Somerset Constabulary
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and the
Great Western Ambulance Service
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.
Bath and North East Somerset's area covers part of the
ceremonial county
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of
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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but it is administered independently of the
non-metropolitan county
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. Its administrative headquarters is in
Bath. Between 1 April 1974 and 1 April 1996, it was the
Wansdyke district
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and the
City of Bath of the
county of Avon
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. Before 1974 that the parish was part of the
Clutton Rural District
Clutton was a rural district in Somerset, England, from 1894 to 1974.
It was created in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894 as a successor to the rural sanitary district.
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.
The village has one
electoral ward
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with the same area and population as the parish.
The parish is represented in the
House of Commons
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of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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as part of
North East Somerset
North East Somerset is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, since its 2010 creation, by Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Boundaries
The constituency covers the part of Bath and North East Somerset District th ...
. It elects one
Member of Parliament (MP)
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by the
first past the post
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system of election.
Geography
![Sleight2009](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Sleight2009.jpg)
The village is located on a plateau above sea level in the north east of Somerset. To the south is the northern edge of the
Mendip Hills
The Mendip Hills (commonly called the Mendips) is a range of limestone hills to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England. Running from Weston-super-Mare and the Bristol Channel in the west to the Frome valley in the east, the hills ...
, to the north is
Marksbury
Marksbury is a small village and civil parish on the eastern edge of the affluent Chew Valley in Somerset, about from Keynsham and from Bath on the A39 where it meets the A368. The parish, which includes the villages of Hunstrete and Stant ...
plain. Bordered by two water courses, to the north by the Conygre Brook, and to the south by the
Cam Brook
The Cam brook is a small river in Somerset, England. It rises near Hinton Blewitt, flows through Cameley, Temple Cloud, Camerton, Dunkerton and Combe Hay. It then joins the Wellow Brook at Midford to form Midford Brook before joining the Ri ...
. Local landmarks to the north west include the Sleight, a small escarpment rising to for a distance of in an east westerly direction. This ridge leads the B3130 to the west of Timsbury past the Hayeswood Road Industrial Estate to connect with the
A39. To the east is Tunley hill which rises to a height of , this is the easterly route to Bath via the B3130.
There is some remaining managed woodland in the local area, but nothing like the amount there was in the past when the village was given its name of Timsbyre (wooded hillside). Dutch elm disease and the use of wood for building construction, fuel and furniture has denuded much of the local area of its trees.
Geology
The local underlying stone is of the
Triassic
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period, known as
White Lias
The Lilstock Formation is a geologic formation in England. It preserves bivalve, insect and other invertebrate fossils, as well as fossil fish of '' Agkistracanthus mitgelensis'' and the basal theropod dinosaur '' Newtonsaurus cambrensis'' dati ...
limestone. It is close to the surface on the southern slopes of the village, and has been used extensively for building purposes for hundreds of years. Some of it has undergone slight
metamorphic
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism. The original rock (protolith) is subjected to temperatures greater than and, often, elevated pressure of or more, causin ...
transformation and has become quite hardened. This factor is evident in many of the older buildings where the softer layer stone has more readily eroded in places. There is an abundance of freestone (rubble stone) in many of the local fields, and this has provided much of the walling stone for the local farms.
Climate
Along with the rest of
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 ...
, Timsbury has a
temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth. These zones generally have wider temperature ranges throughout t ...
which is generally wetter and milder than the rest of England. The annual mean temperature is about with seasonal and
diurnal variations, but due to the modifying effect of the sea, the range is less than in most other parts of the United Kingdom. January is the coldest month with mean minimum temperatures between . July and August are the warmest months in the region with mean daily maxima around . In general, December is the dullest month and June the sunniest. The south west of England enjoys a favoured location, particularly in summer, when the
Azores High
The Azores High also known as North Atlantic (Subtropical) High/Anticyclone or the Bermuda-Azores High, is a large subtropical semi-permanent centre of high atmospheric pressure typically found south of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean, at the Hor ...
extends its influence north-eastwards towards the UK.
Cloud
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often forms inland, especially near hills, and reduces exposure to sunshine. The average annual sunshine totals around 1600 hours.
Rainfall
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tends to be associated with Atlantic
depressions or with convection. In summer, convection caused by solar surface heating sometimes forms shower clouds and a large proportion of the annual precipitation falls from showers and
thunderstorms
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at this time of year. Average rainfall is around . About 8–15 days of
snowfall
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It consists of frozen crystalline water throughout ...
is typical. November to March have the highest mean wind speeds, with June to August having the lightest. The predominant wind direction is from the south west.
Location
Local amenities
Timsbury has four churches catering for various denominations and two cemeteries.
The parish
Church of St Mary the Virgin was rebuilt in 1826–32 and the east end added in 1852 by Sir
George Gilbert Scott
Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), known as Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic Revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started ...
. It has been designated by
English Heritage
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The charity states that i ...
as a Grade II*
listed building
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. In the churchyard are monuments to James Collins, Robert Langford, the Parsons family, two Smith monuments and one unidentified. The old rectory dates from around 1820. South road Methodist Church hall is home to various local groups including the Timsbury Ladies Choir. Tabor Free Methodist Church occupies a fine building of local stone on North Road. Its records show that the stained glass windows, the pews and the entrance screens were designed and made within the village. It was established as a church in 1865. In 1930 the then trustees decided against joining the Methodist Union and Tabor remains a free church under the control of the local trustees. The former Christadelphian church has been converted into housing.
The village currently (2010) maintains a pre-school and primary school, a village hall and Youth club hall. The Conygre hall is used for village meetings, shows including antique fairs, flower shows and the village amateur dramatic society performances, local art group exhibitions and provate events. It has been extended in recent years and its other uses include short mat bowling, dance classes and also the local polling station. There is also a community-run library.
The Conygre hall was built in 1973 and took its name from the Upper Conygre pit previously located opposite. Its cost was financed equally by local subscription, and the generosity of Major B.G.S. Cayzer, who was the second son of the
Union Castle Shipping Line family and owned Parish's House. It is located in a former Miners welfare field purchased for their benefit and financed by a levy of a penny per ton of all coal mined in the local area. There are facilities for recreation and sport, including two
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
pitches,
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
and
rugby
Rugby may refer to:
Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Rugby league nines
*** Rugby league sevens
*** Touch (sport)
*** Wheelchair rugby league
** Rugby union: 1 ...
. There are two tennis courts and a well equipped enclosed children's play park area.
There is a social hall for a branch of the British Legion in Newmans Lane, a YMCA building and one public house, the ''Seven Stars,'' on North Road.
Statistical data (2007) provided by Bath and North East Somerset local council shows that Timsbury, (area 90 in the data), has above average access to local Authority services, has good health care facilities, a lower than average crime rate and good environmental living standards. Timsbury has its own pharmacy in the High Street and doctors' surgery in St Marys Close.
Notable residents
* Singer
Susan Chilcott grew up in the village.
* Entertainer
Fred Wedlock
Peter Frederick Wedlock (23 May 1942 – 4 March 2010) was an English folk singer best known for his UK hit single "The Oldest Swinger in Town", which was covered by German comedian Karl Dall as "Der älteste Popper der Stadt". He performed ...
(deceased)
* Actor
Anthony Head
Anthony Stewart Head (born 20 February 1954) is an English actor and singer. Primarily a performer in musical theatre, he rose to fame in the UK in the 1980s following his role in the Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé, w ...
*
Mark Boyle, freeconomy activist
References
External links
Timsbury community website (supported by the parish council)
{{Chew Valley
Somerset coalfield
Civil parishes in Somerset
Villages in Bath and North East Somerset