Charlton Musgrove
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Charlton Musgrove | |
Charlton Musgrove shown within Somerset |
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Population | 375 |
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OS grid reference | |
District | South Somerset |
Shire county | Somerset |
Region | South West |
Constituent country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | WINCANTON |
Postcode district | BA9 |
Dialling code | 01963 |
Police | Avon and Somerset |
Fire | Devon and Somerset |
Ambulance | South Western |
European Parliament | South West England |
UK Parliament | Somerton and Frome |
List of places: UK • England • Somerset |
Charlton Musgrove is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated one mile north east of Wincanton in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 375 . The parish includes the hamlet of Barrow.
The village is unusual in having two churches and two centres; the second centre is said to have originated when people fled to avoid the plague. The newer centre had no church until 1877 when a chapel of ease at Barrow Lane, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, was given by Mrs. E. F. Davies (née Leir), the widow of a former rector. It is of stone in a 13th-century style, designed by C. E. Davis of Bath, and comprises an apsidal chancel and a nave with a southern bell tower (www.british-history.ac.uk). The Leir family themselves have provided a number of Rectors to the parish.
Stavordale Priory, now a private home owned by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, is thought to be linked to the village's Old Church near the altar by a tunnel, perhaps used as a priest's escape route, some two miles in length.
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- ^ Somerset County Council, 2002. Population estimates.