East Huntspill
The Crown Inn and road junction
East Huntspill is located in Somerset
East Huntspill
East Huntspill
Location within Somerset
Population1,146 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceST344454
Civil parish
  • East Huntspill
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHIGHBRIDGE
Postcode districtTA9
Dialling code01278
PoliceAvon and Somerset
FireDevon and Somerset
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

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.

The parish of East Huntspill has a population of 1,146.[1]

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.[2]

The parish of Huntspill was part of the Huntspill and Puriton Hundred.[3]

Three 18th century farmhouses in East Huntspill, Hackney, New Road and Phippins, have all been designated as Grade II listed buildings.[4][5][6]

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.[7] The parish of Huntspill All Saints was renamed East Hunstspill in 1972.[8]

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.[9]

Religious sites

All Saints Church

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,[8] and the bell-chamber was added in the late 19th century.[10] It has been designated as a Grade II listed building.[11] It is on the Heritage at Risk Register because of the condition of the roof.[12]

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.[8]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Statistics for Wards, LSOAs and Parishes — SUMMARY Profiles" (Excel). Somerset Intelligence. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Robinson, Stephen (1992). Somerset Place Names. Wimborne, Dorset: The Dovecote Press Ltd. ISBN 1-874336-03-2.
  3. ↑ "Somerset Hundreds". GENUKI. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
  4. ↑ Historic England. "Phippins Farmhouses, Barn and Forecourt Wall, New Road (1173314)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  5. ↑ Historic England. "New Road Farmhouse (1296263)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Hackney Farmhouse with attached outbuilding and wall (1344660)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  7. ↑ Vision of Britain website
  8. 1 2 3 Robert Dunning, ed. (2004). "Huntspill". A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 8, the Poldens and the Levels. Victoria County History. British History Online. pp. 91–112. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  9. ↑ "Bridgwater RD". A vision of Britain Through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  10. ↑ Historic England. "Church of All Saints (1060130)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
  11. ↑ Historic England. "Church of all Saints (1060130)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  12. ↑ "Church of All Saints, Church Road, East Huntspill — Sedgemoor". Heritage at Risk. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  • Moore, R. (2005) A Parish Survey of East Huntspill and Bason Bridge (available via Somerset Studies Library, Taunton)

Media related to East Huntspill at Wikimedia Commons

  • A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 8: The Poldens and the Levels: Huntspill (2004)
  • The Somerset Urban Archaeological Survey: Burnham and Highbridge by Clare Gathercole
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