Hinton Blewitt

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Hinton Blewitt
Hinton Blewitt (Somerset)
Hinton Blewitt

Hinton Blewitt shown within Somerset
Population approx. 700
OS grid reference ST593568
Unitary authority Bath and North East Somerset
Ceremonial county Somerset
Region South West
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BRISTOL
Postcode district BS
Dialling code 01761
Police Avon and Somerset
Fire Avon
Ambulance Great Western
European Parliament South West England
UK Parliament Wansdyke
(North East Somerset
from next general election).
List of places: UK • England • Somerset

Coordinates: 51°18′32″N 2°34′60″W / 51.3088, -2.5832

Hinton Blewett (grid reference ST593568) is situated 5 miles north of Wells, 15 miles south of Bristol on the Northern slope of the Mendip Hills within the designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and in the Chew Valley near to the source of the River Chew.

The village was known in the Domesday Book as Hantone, the Blewett part of the name coming from the Bluet family in the fourteenth century.[1] Hantone is believed to mean 'A poor enclosure' from the Old English hean and tun.[2]

The name of the village is sometimes spelled as Hinton Blewitt. There is a village green outside the pub and church, sometimes known as the "Barbary".[1]

William Rees-Mogg took the title of Baron Rees-Mogg, of Hinton Blewitt when he was made a life peer in 1988, although it is believed he and his wife moved out of the village in the late 1990s.

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[edit] Government and politics

Hinton Blewett, has a Parish council which has some responsibility for local issues, and, along with East Harptree and West Harptree, is part of the Mendip Ward which is represented by one councillor on the Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority which has wider responsibilities for services such as education, refuse, tourism etc. The village is a part of the Wansdyke constituency, which will become North East Somerset at the next general election and part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament.

[edit] Demographics

According to the 2001 Cenusus The Mendip Ward (which includes East and West Harptree), had 1,465 residents, living in 548 households, with an average age of 39.0 years. Of these 79% of residents describing their health as 'good', 22% of 16-74 year olds had no qualifications; and the area had an unemployment rate of 1.5% of all economically active people aged 16-74. In the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004, it was ranked at 25,387 out of 32,482 wards in England, where 1 was the most deprived LSOA and 32,482 the least deprived.[3]

[edit] Buildings

[edit] Church

Pub and church tower at Hinton Blewitt.
Pub and church tower at Hinton Blewitt.
Church of St Margaret
Church of St Margaret

The Church of St. Margaret is largely built of Blue Lias with Doulting Stone arcade[4] probably dates from the 13th century although parts are as late as the 16th or 17th century. The five bells were cast in 1708 by the Bilbies of Chew Stoke.[1] It includes the Coat of arms of Simon Seward (Rector 1514-1559) over the doorway. The church is a Grade I listed building (Church of St. Margaret at Images of England)

[edit] Grade II listed buildings

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Mason, Edmund J. & Mason, Doreen. Avon Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7091-9585-6. 
  2. ^ Robinson, Stephen (1992). Somerset Place Names. Wimbourne: The Dovecote Press Ltd. ISBN 1874336032. 
  3. ^ Neighbourhood Statistics LSOA Bath and North East Somerset 021D Mendip. Office of National Statistics 2001 Cenusus. Retrieved on 2006-04-25.
  4. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1958). The Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-071013-7. 

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