Ditcheat

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51°07′35″N 2°32′07″W / 51.1264°N 2.5352°W / 51.1264; -2.5352

Ditcheat is a village and

civil parish 4.5 miles (7 km) south of Shepton Mallet, and 2.5 miles (4 km) north-west of Castle Cary, in Somerset
, England. Besides the village, the parish has four hamlets: Wraxall, Lower Wraxall, Alhampton and Sutton.

History

In the

Nearby main roads are the

Scheduled Ancient Monument.[6] The parish is close to the Roman Fosse Way
.

The Manor House is a 17th-century manor house built by Sir Ralph Hopton.[7]

Governance

The

neighbourhood watch
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, 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 the responsibility of the council.

For local government purposes, since 1 April 2023, the village comes under the unitary authority of Somerset Council. Prior to this, it was part of the non-metropolitan district of Mendip, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Shepton Mallet Rural District.[8]

It is also part of the

.

Religious sites

Yellow stone building with central square tower, Foregound is paths through green grass.
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Ditcheat

The Church of St Mary Magdalene has 12th-century origins. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.[9]

neo-Tudor; inside there are reused fragments and some original 15th- and 17th-century work – coffered ceilings and the arch-braced roof of the ‘chapel wing’ – but most of the elaborate Gothic work dates from the 1860s.[10]

Priors Leigh on the Alhampton Road is a former chapel, now a private home.[11]

Alhampton is served by Alhampton Chapel, a small mission church and tin tabernacle which was erected in 1892.[12] Alhampton Chapel is under the auspices of St Mary Magdalene Church in Ditcheat, both of which form part of the Fosse Trinity Benefice.

Alhampton Tabernacle

Community facilities

There is a

public house, called The Manor House Inn, dating from the 17th Century and which used to be owned by the lord of the manor.[13]

The Alhampton Inn, also known as the Knave of Clubs, was open from at least the nineteenth century until it closed in 2022. A community initiative was set up to reopen the pub, and this was successfully achieved in August 2023.[14][15]

A new woodland, Haddon Wood, was established at Alhampton on land donated by the owner in 2013 to the Woodland Trust for the benefit of the local community.[16] The land has been planted with native and orchard trees, and has a pond.[17]

Sport

Ditcheat is home to the stables operated by Paul Nicholls, trainer of Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning horses Kauto Star and Denman.[18]

Notable people

References

  1. ^ "Ditcheat Parish". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  2. .
  3. ^ "Somerset Hundreds". GENUKI. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  4. ^ Historic England. "Ansford Bridge (1217028)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  5. ^ Historic England. "Boulter's Bridge (1345164)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  6. ^ "Boulters Bridge". Listed Buildings Online. English Heritage. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  7. ^ Historic England. "Ditcheat House, or Ditcheat Manor (1275484)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  8. ^ "Shepton Mallet RD". A vision of Britain Through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  9. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary Magdalene (1345167)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  10. ^ Historic England. "The Priory (1275470)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  11. ^ "Priors Leigh" (PDF). Chesterton Humberts.
  12. ^ "Home". Alhampton Chapel. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  13. ^ CAMRA WhatPub.com Manor House Inn, Ditcheat
  14. ^ "The Alhampton Inn to reopen as a community-run pub", Somerset County Gazette, 23 June 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023
  15. ^ "Alhampton Inn: Our Story". Retrieved 25 August 2023
  16. ^ John Vallins, "A woodland dream come true", The Guardian, 3 November 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2023
  17. ^ Haddon Wood, The Woodland Trust. Retrieved 25 August 2023
  18. ^ "Gold Cup winner in village parade". BBC News. 14 March 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
  19. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67079. Retrieved 11 February 2024. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  20. ^ Scargill, Peter (18 June 2023). "'He deserved all the success he had, what a man' - Denman owner Paul Barber dies at the age of 80". Racing Post. Archived from the original on 13 November 2023. Retrieved 11 November 2023.

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