Coln St. Aldwyns

Coln St. Aldwyns
Coln St. Aldwyns
 Coln St. Aldwyns shown within Gloucestershire
Population 271 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSP145053
Civil parishColn St. Aldwyns[2]
DistrictCotswold
Shire countyGloucestershire
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town CIRENCESTER
Postcode district GL7
Dialling code 01285
Police Gloucestershire
Fire Gloucestershire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentCotswold
List of places
UK
England
Gloucestershire

Coordinates: 51°44′46″N 1°47′29″W / 51.74621°N 1.79138°W / 51.74621; -1.79138Coln St. Aldwyns (sometimes Coln St. Aldwyn) is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of the English county of Gloucestershire.

The designation "St. Aldwyns" (Culna Sancti Aylwini) is attested from the 12th century, and differentiates the village from Coln Rogers and Coln St. Dennis, situated further along the River Coln.[3][4] In 1086 in the Domesday book only a single undifferentiated "Culne" is recorded.[5] The name presumably indicates that the church in the village was originally dedicated to St Aylwin,[6] taken to be a form of St Æthelwine,[7] which later became St Aldwyn. At some point between 1535 and 1700 the dedication of the church was changed to St John the Baptist (specifically, to his beheading).[8] The church, in the very south of the parish, was mostly built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries with extensive 19th-century renovations, and is protected as a Grade II* listed building.[9] It is now in the charge of a team ministry alongside neighbouring parishes.

Governance

Coln St. Aldwyns is part of the Coln Valley ward of the district of Cotswold and is currently represented by Councillor Raymond Theodoulou,[10] a member of the Conservative Party. Coln St. Aldwyns is part of the parliamentary constituency of Cotswold, represented in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown.[11] It is part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament.

References

  1. ↑ "Parish population 2011.Retrieved 25 March 2015".
  2. ↑ "Coln St Aldwyns Parish Council". Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  3. ↑ A. D. Mills (2011), A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press
  4. ↑ Coln St Aldwyn Historical Gazetteer of England's Place-Names. Data from A. H. Smith (1964), The Place-Names of Gloucestershire, Part 1 (EPNS 38), Cambridge. Accessed 2016-02-02
  5. ↑ Coln (St Aldwyns), Open Domesday
  6. ↑ see eg 13th century charter, in William H. Hart (1863), Historia et cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae, Volume 1, p. 257
  7. ↑ eg in "Coln St. Aldwyns", in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7, ed. N. M. Herbert (Victoria County History series, Oxford, 1981), pp. 44-55; via British History Online
  8. ↑ St John the Baptist, Coln St Aldwyn, Church of England website
  9. ↑ Listing text for the Church of St John the Baptist, Church Road, Coln St Aldwyns, English Heritage; via British Listed Buildings website
  10. ↑ "Cotswold Committee Management System (CMIS) > Councillors". www.cmis.cotswold.gov.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  11. ↑ "Cotswold - Constituency - Conservative Party". Conservative Party. Retrieved 2008-04-28.

External links


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, February 03, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.