East Huntspill
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|static_image_caption=The Crown Inn and road junction
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|official_name= East Huntspill
|population= 1,146
|civil_parish= East Huntspill
| unitary_england = Somerset Council
| lieutenancy_england = Somerset
|region= South West England
|constituency_westminster= Wells and Mendip Hills
|post_town= HIGHBRIDGE
|postcode_district= TA9
|postcode_area= TA
|dial_code= 01278
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East Huntspill is a village and civil parish on the Huntspill Level, near Highbridge, Somerset, England. The civil parish includes Cote, Hackness and Bason Bridge.
History
Huntspill was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Honspil, meaning 'Huna's creek' possibly from the Old English personal name Huna and from the Celtic pwll.{{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Stephen |title=Somerset Place Names |year=1992 |publisher=The Dovecote Press Ltd |location=Wimborne, Dorset |isbn=1-874336-03-2}}
The parish of Huntspill was part of the Huntspill and Puriton Hundred.{{cite web|title=Somerset Hundreds|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/|publisher=GENUKI|access-date=15 October 2011}}
Three 18th century farmhouses in East Huntspill, Hackney, New Road and Phippins, have all been designated as Grade II listed buildings.{{NHLE|desc=Phippins Farmhouses, Barn and Forecourt Wall, New Road|num=1173314|accessdate=25 January 2015}}{{NHLE|desc=New Road Farmhouse|num=1296263|accessdate=25 January 2015}}{{NHLE|desc=Hackney Farmhouse with attached outbuilding and wall|num=1344660|accessdate=25 January 2015}}
In 1949 the civil parish of Huntspill was abolished and divided into Huntspill All Saints and West Huntspill along the line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway.[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10434944/relationships Vision of Britain website] The parish of Huntspill All Saints was renamed East Hunstspill in 1972.{{cite book|chapter=Huntspill|title= A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 8, the Poldens and the Levels|editor=Robert Dunning|series=Victoria County History|year=2004|pages=91–112|publisher=British History Online|access-date= 25 January 2015|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol8/pp91-112 }}
Governance
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 Bridgwater Rural District.{{cite web|title=Bridgwater RD|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10025527|work=A vision of Britain Through Time|publisher=University of Portsmouth|access-date=4 January 2014}}
Religious sites
File:Church at East Huntspill - geograph.org.uk - 109473.jpg
The Anglican parish Church of All Saints in East Huntspill was built in 1839 by G P Manners, as a chapel-of-ease to the then parish church at Huntspill. It became the parish church in 1845, when the chapelry was formed into a parochial district, and the bell-chamber was added in the late 19th century.{{NHLE |num=1060130 |desc=Church of All Saints |accessdate=2009-02-20}} It has been designated as a Grade II listed building.{{NHLE|desc=Church of all Saints|num=1060130|accessdate=25 January 2015}} It is on the Heritage at Risk Register because of the condition of the roof.{{cite web|title=Church of All Saints, Church Road, East Huntspill — Sedgemoor|url=http://risk.english-heritage.org.uk/register.aspx?id=20132|work=Heritage at Risk|publisher=English Heritage|access-date=14 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108134606/http://risk.english-heritage.org.uk/register.aspx?id=20132|archive-date=8 January 2014|url-status=dead}}
There was a United Methodist chapel in East Huntspill built in 1923, which replaced an earlier building in Chapel Lane. The chapel closed by 1997.
See also
References
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- Moore, R. (2005) A Parish Survey of East Huntspill and Bason Bridge (available via Somerset Studies Library, Taunton)
External links
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- A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 8: The Poldens and the Levels: [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15110 Huntspill ] (2004)
- The Somerset Urban Archaeological Survey: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717061728/http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/hes/downloads/EUS_BurnhamText.pdf Burnham and Highbridge ] by Clare Gathercole
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