Marksbury

Coordinates: 51°21′31″N 2°28′44″W / 51.3587°N 2.4790°W / 51.3587; -2.4790
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Marksbury
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51°21′31″N 2°28′44″W / 51.3587°N 2.4790°W / 51.3587; -2.4790

Marksbury is a small village and

affluent Chew Valley in Somerset, about 4 miles (6.4 km) from Keynsham and 7 miles (11.3 km) from Bath on the A39 where it meets the A368. The parish, which includes the villages of Hunstrete and Stanton Prior, has a population of 397.[1]

History

Wansdyke.[3]

In 926

Edgar the Peaceful.[4]

Marksbury was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Mercesberia.[5] The name of the village is thought to come from Old English either as ‘Mǣrec’s or Mearc’s stronghold’ (from an Old English male personal name + burh ‘stronghold’, ‘fortified place’, dative byrig), or as ‘stronghold on a boundary’ (from mearc ‘boundary’, possibly a reference to the Wansdyke, + burh, byrig).

The parish of Marksbury was part of the

Hundred.[6]

The village has a primary school.

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.

Marksbury is part of the Farmborough Ward, which is represented by one councillor on 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.[7] Before 1974 that the parish was part of the Bathavon Rural District.[8]

The parish is represented in the

first-past-the-post
system of election.

Demographics

According to the 2001 Census, the

Farmborough Ward (which includes Compton Dando, Woollard, Hunstrete, Chewton Keynsham, Saltford and Stanton Prior) had 1,111 residents, living in 428 households, with an average age of 44.5 years. Of these 71% of residents describing their health as 'good', 21% of 16- to 74-year-olds had no qualifications; and the area had an unemployment rate of 1.0% of all economically active people aged 16–74. In the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004, it was ranked at 22,100 out of 32,482 wards in England, where 1 was the most deprived LSOA and 32,482 the least deprived.[9]

Church

The Church of St Peter, is an ancient structure, with a tower containing six bells. It is believed to be late 12th century in origin but mainly from the 15th century. The tower has three stages; the first stage has diagonal buttresses, a canted stair turret in the return of tower and nave and a very small west door with a canted flat arch under a 2-light, chamfered mullion window dated 1634. The second stage has a cusped 2-light window with heavy louvres to the north, a blocked single light to the east and 2-light chamfered, vaguely pointed windows south and west, contemporary with third stage which has one enormous, round headed window with raised architrave and louvres per side, thin, embattled parapet dominated by four pyramidal pinnacles with vanes. The nave has two 2-light windows under hoodmoulds flanking a blocked, moulded round-headed door under a plaque dated 1627. The buttressed, off-centre chancel has to north one window as elsewhere, 3-light east window of 1875. There are several monuments in the chancel including those to Counsell, 1671, and Wadden, 1682. In the nave is a monument to Boulter 1782, by Brewer of Box. Reverend William Counsell was the rector (1662–74). The church is a Grade II* listed building.[10] An unidentified monument in the churchyard is also listed.[11]

On Wingsbury Hill are remains of an ancient chapel, probably belonging to a monastery, which formerly existed here.

The parish is part of the benefice of Farmborough with Marksbury and Stanton Prior, Clutton with Cameley, and within the archdeaconry of Bath.[12]

Notable residents

  • Joseph Harding (1805–1876), known for being the "Father of Cheddar Cheese", lived and died in Marksbury.[13]

Other Grade II listed buildings

References

  1. ^ a b "Marksbury Parish". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Area 6 Hinton Blewett and Newton St Loe Plateau Lands" (PDF). Rural Landscapes. Bath and North East Somerset Council. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Stantonbury Hill". Wansdyke Project 21.
  4. ^ Robinson, W.J. (1915). West Country Churches. Bristol: Bristol Times and Mirror Ltd. pp. 54–60.
  5. ISBN 1-874336-03-2
    .
  6. ^ "Somerset Hundreds". GENUKI. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
  7. ^ "The Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995". HMSO. Archived from the original on 30 January 2008. Retrieved 9 December 2007.
  8. ^ "Bathavon RD". A vision of Britain Through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  9. ^ "Neighbourhood Statistics LSOA Bath and North East Somerset 016B Farmborouch". Office for National Statistics 2001 Census. Retrieved 1 May 2006.
  10. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Peter (1320777)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 April 2006.
  11. ^ Historic England. "Unidentified Monument, in the churchyard and 2 metres south of nave of Church of St Lawrence (1320781)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 April 2006.
  12. ^ "All Saints, Farmborough". A church near you. Church of England. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
  13. ^ Heeley, Ann; Vidal, Mary. Joseph Harding, Cheddar Cheese-Maker. Friends of the Abbey Barn, Glastonbury, 1996

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