Milborne Port

Coordinates: 50°58′00″N 2°27′40″W / 50.9666°N 2.4610°W / 50.9666; -2.4610
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For the rotten borough, see Milborne Port (UK Parliament constituency).

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Milborne Port is a village,

civil parish in Somerset, England, east of Sherborne, and in the South Somerset district. It has a population of 2,802.[1] The parish includes the hamlets
of Milborne Wick and Kingsbury Regis.

The village is surrounded by green fields and countryside on the banks of the

River Gascoigne, a tributary of the River Ivel or River Yeo
.

The village has a primary school, which occupies the site of the former infant school. The junior school was closed and all pupils and staff moved to the infant site. In 2006 a new three-classroom extension was opened.

History

Milborne Port Town Hall

The nearby

palaeontology.[3]

Prehistoric features and finds have been located on the

hill fort on Barrow Hill, in the north of the parish.[4]

In the

mint town, between 997 and 1035.[5] It is one of at least nineteen mint towns which were neither an Alfredian borough nor an eleventh-century shire town, but a minster site. The market was the most profitable in Somerset in 1086, and the town was eighth in the county tax collection in 1340.[6]

The "port" in the towns name signifies an important market town and was first recorded in 1249.

Horethorne.[8]

Scott v. Shepherd[10] helped establish the principles of remoteness, foreseeability, and intervening cause in modern common law torts. Shepherd tossed a lit squib into a crowded market in the town, where it landed on the table of a gingerbread merchant named Yates. Willis, a bystander, grabbed the squib and threw it across the market to protect himself and the gingerbread. Unfortunately, the squib landed in the goods of another merchant named Ryal. Ryal immediately grabbed the squib and tossed it away, accidentally hitting Scott in the face just as the squib exploded. The explosion put out one of Scott's eyes. Shepherd was found to be fully liable, because, said De Gray CJ, "I do not consider [the intermediaries] as free agents in the present case, but acting under a compulsive necessity for their own safety and self-preservation."[11]

In 1805, the town was described as follows:

Under the Reform Act 1832, the town lost its status as a Parliamentary constituency, due to the gerrymandering activities of both parties in preceding elections.[13]

In April 1873 a local Shepherd, William Osmond was victimised and sent to jail with six months hard labour for organising agricultural labourers in the area (inspired by George Mitchell, Somerset leader of the

National Agricultural Labourers Union
). On his release in January 1874 over 2,000 supporters marched through Milborne Port in his support. The farmer Charles Bugg, who victimised Osmond, died it is said of "shame" in January 1874 (Source: One from the Plough — George Mitchell)

The village was a thriving leather and

leather glove manufacturing area. In 1826, The Earl of Ilchester presented a petition to Parliament for them, against the importation of leather.[14] The last factory closed in 1970.[5]

Ven House with its orangery, entrance gateway, pavilions, terrace, stabling & other outbuildings was built in 1730 by Richard Grange and Decimus Burton. It is a grade I listed building.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]

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.

The village falls within the

crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism
.

waste disposal
and strategic planning.

It is also part of the

first past the post
system of election.

Church

The

William's) rebuilt his Minster at Milborne Port in "a sumptuous hybrid style". It would seem logical to assign the now-demolished nave to this period, since the surviving south doorway of the nave was incorporated into the 1860s rebuild and is perhaps of Saxo-Norman design.[24]

However, despite the

pre-conquest central tower, part transepts and chancel. The south transept was heavily restored
in 1843. The north transept was rebuilt along with the nave, so compared to pre-1867 almost half of the Anglo-Saxon church has now gone.

The new nave is 28 feet (9 m) longer than the original it replaced. The old west front exhibited vestiges of triangular-headed arcading on either side of the inserted Perpendicular west window, and the lower part of the front was divided into compartments, by broad pilasters of plain square section. This was recorded by photography and the photo was published in 1893 by A. Reynolds, who was involved with building the new nave.

The crossing (tower) is wider in plan than the nave, and markedly wider than the transepts or chancel. This is a distinctive Saxon trait, which may also be observed at nearby Sherborne Abbey (where significant traces of the Saxon rubble west wall may be seen, and which include a Saxon doorway in the north aisle). Inside, the four crossing arches with their jambs survive, although the east and west arches have been rebuilt in pointed 14th-century form; the south and north arches have been slightly deformed to elliptical shape due to the pressure of the masonry, perhaps by the addition of the top stage of the tower in Norman times.

The chancel exhibits pilaster strip work, much disturbed and cut by Early English period windows, and has a close parallel at Bradford-on-Avon. The wall thickness of the chancel is 2 ft 8 in (0.81 m), which is a typical Anglo-Saxon dimension. The church, with its Anglo-Saxon features, is of major importance to our understanding of the larger minsters in pre-conquest England.[25]

The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.[26]

A mission church of 1891 serves Milborne Wick.[27]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Statistics for Wards, LSOAs and Parishes — SUMMARY Profiles" (Excel). Somerset Intelligence. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  2. ^ a b English Nature citation sheet for Laycock Railway Cutting Archived 13 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 10 August 2006)
  3. ^ English Nature citation sheet for Miller's Hill, Milborne Wick (accessed 10 August 2006)
  4. ^ Richardson, Miranda. "Milborne Port" (PDF). Somerset Urban Archaeological Survey. Somerset County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Milborne Port". A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 7. British History Online. Retrieved 17 August 2008.
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  7. ^ Historic England. "Early Medieval and Medieval urban remains, Milborne Port (1017393)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  8. ^ "Somerset Hundreds". GENUKI. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  9. ^ "Happy 300th Birthday to our Market House!". Milborne Port Parish Council. 4 September 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  10. ^ 2 Blackstone's Reports 892, 96 Eng. Rep. 525 (1773)
  11. ^ 96 Eng. Rep. 525 (K.B. 1773)
  12. ^ Oulton, W. C. (1805) The Traveller's Guide; or, English Itinerary, Vol II, pp 272-273. Ivy-Lane, London: James Cundee.
  13. ^ Richardson, Miranda. "Milborne Port". Somerset Urban Archaeological Surveys. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  14. ^ "PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. - HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1826. - The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) - 29 Jul 1826".
  15. ^ Historic England. "Ven House, Milborne Port (1056286)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  16. ^ Historic England. "Corridor linking Ven House and the Orangery, Milborne Port (1056288)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  17. ^ Historic England. "Main entrance gateway, 35 metres North-West of Ven House, Milborne Port (1175037)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  18. ^ Historic England. "North-East Pavilion and balustraded brick wall, Ven House, Milborne Port (1366378)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  19. ^ Historic England. "North-West Pavilion and balustraded link wall, Ven House, Milborne Port (1056287)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  20. ^ Historic England. "Stabling and other outbuildings, attached to East side of Ven House, Milborne Port (1366379)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  21. ^ Historic England. "Terrace along South Garden front, Ven House, Milborne Port (1056289)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  22. ^ Historic England. "The Orangery, attached to the South West corner of Ven House, Milborne Port (1295483)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  23. ^ "Wincanton RD". A vision of Britain Through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  24. ISBN 978-0-19-822695-6
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  25. ^ Taylor, H.M.; Taylor, Joan (1965). Anglo-Saxon Architecture. Vol. 1.
  26. ^ Historic England. "Church of St John the Evangelist (1295666)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 August 2008.
  27. ^ "Milborne Port | British History Online".

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