Horrington is a collection of three small villages (South Horrington, East Horrington and West Horrington) in the parish of
St Cuthbert Out
St Cuthbert Out, sometimes Wells St Cuthbert Out, is a civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. It entirely surrounds (but does not include) the city and parish of Wells. According to the 2011 census it had a population of 3,749 ...
or east of
Wells
Wells most commonly refers to:
* Wells, Somerset, a cathedral city in Somerset, England
* Well, an excavation or structure created in the ground
* Wells (name)
Wells may also refer to:
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*Wells, British Columbia
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* Wells ...
,
Somerset, England.
South Horrington is a relatively new village created in the late 1990s from the defunct
Mendip Hospital that was closed in 1991.
The original hospital opened on 1 March 1848 and was built to house 400 patients and staff. The principal architect was
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 ...
, who is better known for his designs of
St Pancras Station and the
Albert Memorial in London.
His work has largely been retained and the main buildings have been converted into a range of flats and houses. Newer houses have been built on the original
kitchen gardens and orchards although the front grounds remain largely unaltered.
The nearby
Maesbury Railway Cutting of the
Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway exposes approximately 135 metres of strata
representing the middle and upper Lower
Limestone Shales and the basal
Black Rock Limestone. Both formations are of early
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carbonifero ...
(
Courceyan) age.
William Catcott, born 27 Feb 1808 in West Horrington was known as the Baker Poet. He had a book of his poems called "Morning Musings" published which was about the local Mendip Hills and his family. He became a baker in Wells, Somerset and died on 13 Nov 1870. The local paper carried an obituary.
Wells Cricket Club are based in South Horrington.
The
former church of St John at East Horrington was built in 1838 to the designs of
Richard Carver.
Gallery
File:southhorrington-evening.JPG, South Horrington evening shot
File:West-horrington-str.jpg, West Horrington from Hill End
References
External links
{{Commons category-inline, Horrington
Villages in Mendip District