Combe Hay

Coordinates: 51°20′20″N 2°22′52″W / 51.3389°N 2.3810°W / 51.3389; -2.3810
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Combe Hay
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51°20′20″N 2°22′52″W / 51.3389°N 2.3810°W / 51.3389; -2.3810

Combe Hay is a village and

county of Somerset. It falls within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The parish has a population of 147.[1]

History

The Fuller's Earth Works at Combe Hay in 2015

Combe Hay was known in the

Hundred.[2]

The village includes a church with a 15th-century tower, the Georgian Combe Hay Manor[3] and Georgian rectory.[4]

Combe Hay was the site of

listed buildings.[7][8] It was also served by the Camerton and Limpley Stoke Railway
.

From the 1880s until 1980 mines extracting fuller's earth were to be found in Combe Hay.[9][10] During World War II production expanded to supply foundries and in paint production. Work was scheduled under the Essential Works Order 1941 and new equipment installed. The site was bombed on the night of 25–26 April 1942 during the Baedeker Blitz raids on Bath, causing damage to some of the machines. The next night local residents sheltered in the mine. By the end of the war production was up to 250 tins a week. By 1949 the site had been electrified, therefore the Garrett steam engine was sold and the chimney demolished. The Fuller's Earth Union was taken over by Laporte plc. In 1978 a new extension was built making granules for cat litter, but in 1979 a major customer making cars in the West Midlands closed and production was wound down until closure in 1980.[11]

The site of the former Fuller's earth works on the A367 was taken over by Bath Recycling Skips (see above image), in the distance is the Bath Odd Down Park & Ride at the end of Combe Hay Lane. Further development is planned just below this site with up to 171 new houses being developed, although with a great deal of opposition from the inhabitants of Southstoke and Combe Hay.[12]

The village appears in the Ealing comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt.

Governance

The

playing fields and playgrounds
, 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

Avon and Somerset Constabulary and the Great Western Ambulance Service
.

Bath and North East Somerset's area covers part of the

county of Avon.[13] Before 1974 that the parish was part of the Bathavon Rural District.[14]

The parish is represented in the

MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation
.

Religious sites

The

Anglican parish church has a 15th-century tower but the body of the church was altered in the late 18th century and restored with the addition of a south aisle and porch in 1874, possibly by the Lord of the manor, George Smart.[15]

Gallery

References

  1. ^ a b "Combe Hay Parish". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Somerset Hundreds". GENUKI. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Combe Hay Manor". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2006.
  4. ^ "The Old Rectory". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2006.
  5. ^ "Grant unlocks Canal's secret history". BANES News Inform 32. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  6. ^ "Caisson House". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2006.
  7. ^ "Flight of 10 locks". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2006.
  8. ^ "Remains of the Basin at the bottom of the Inclined Plane". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2006.
  9. doi:10.1180/claymin.1986.021.3.04
    . Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  10. ISBN 978-1-899889-32-7
    .
  11. ISBN 978-1-899889-32-7
    .
  12. ^ Mills, Richard (17 January 2020). "171-homes plan for Bath could now more than double in size". Somerset Live. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  13. ^ "The Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995". HMSO. Archived from the original on 30 January 2008. Retrieved 9 December 2007.
  14. ^ "Bathavon RD". A vision of Britain Through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  15. ^ "Combe Hay parish church". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2008.

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