Standerwick SOM (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 16:30 (5642 days ago) @ peter13

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Standerwick/index.html

"STANDERWICK, a parish in the hundred of Frome, county Somerset, 4 miles N.E. of Frome. Beckington is its post town. The village, which is small, is wholly agricultural. The parish includes Old Ford. The land is chiefly in pasture. The living is a rectory annexed to that of Beckington, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Mrs. Edgell, of Standerwick Court, is lady of the manor and principal landowner. There are remains of an ancient encampment." From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson © 2003

not that far to

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/ComptonBishop/index.html

COMPTON BISHOP, a parish in the hundred of Winterstoke, in the county of Somerset, 2 miles W. of Axbridge, its post town, and 11 from the Yatton railway station. It is pleasantly situated at the foot of the Mendip hills,

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