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East Brent is a village and civil parish, on the eastern edge of a hill that dominates the surrounding level countryside—Brent Knoll—close to the M5 motorway, 5 miles (8 km) west of Axbridge, in the county of Somerset, in the south-west of England. The parish includes the hamlets of Rooksbridge, where the A38 road crosses the Mark Yeo and Edingworth.
History
The manor formed part of the great Saxon estate of Brent given by King Ine of the West Saxons to Glastonbury Abbey in 693 and held by the monks of the abbey until the Dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. It was then granted to the Duke of Somerset and subsequently passed to the Whitmores and then the Pophams,[2] who lived in the Grade II listed Beaconsfield House until it was sold in 2015.
East Brent was part of the
Abbot John Selwood built a mansion in the village in the 15th century, which was demolished in 1708.[2]
In 1851
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.
It is also part of the
Church and chapel
The parish
A
References
- ^ "Statistics for Wards, LSOAs and Parishes — SUMMARY Profiles" (Excel). Somerset Intelligence. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
- ^ ISBN 1-874336-26-1.
- ^ "Militia in the Brent-cum-Wrington Hundred". Wrington Somerset. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary (Grade I) (1262673)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
- ^ Vicar of St Mary’s, East Brent
- ^ "Baptist Chapel". Rooksbridge and East Brent web site. Retrieved 8 January 2009.