Burnham Without
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Burnham Without is a civil parish in the main located to the east of Burnham-on-Sea and to the north and northeast of Highbridge in Somerset, England.
The parish includes the villages of Watchfield and Edithmead. The developed fringes of eastern Burnham itself are also in the parish.
The parish in 2011 had a population of 796.[1]
Mostly rural Burnham Without consists of drained, low-lying agricultural land between the coast at Burnham itself and
History
The civil parish was formed in 1896, when the rural areas of the civil parish of Highbridge (itself created only in 1894 out of the large parish of Burnham) were separated from the urban area of Highbridge.[2] The parish formed part of Axbridge Rural District until 1974, when it joined the new District of Sedgemoor.
Governance
The
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 Sedgemoor, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Axbridge Rural District.[3]
It is also part of the
References
- ^ "Statistics for Wards, LSOAs and Parishes — SUMMARY Profiles" (Excel). Somerset Intelligence. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
- ^ Vision of Britain website
- ^ "Axbridge RD". A vision of Britain Through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 4 January 2014.