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Axbridge in Somerset County England History and GeographyAXBRIDGE, a market town and parish in the hundred of WINTERSTOKE, county of SOMERSET, having separate jurisdiction, 18 miles (S. by W.) from Bristol, and 130 (W. by S.) from London, containing 988 inhabitants. This place which derives name from its bridge over the river Axe, was formerly the residence of some of the West-Saxon monarchs, by whom it was invested with many privileges. The town is neatly built, indifferently paved, and amply supplied with water. The chief occupation of the poorer class of inhabitants is the knitting of stockings. The market day is Saturday: fairs are held on February 2d, March 25th, June 11th, and October 28th. The government of the town, by charter of incorporation, is vested in a mayor, bailiff, recorder, ten aldermen and twenty-two burgesses, assisted by a town clerk, two mace bearers, and subordinate officers: the corporation hold a court of session quarterly for the borough. The council-house, an ancient building, is in a very dilapidated state. Axbridge sent members to parliament in the 23d of Edward I., but was excused from that duty in the 17th of Edward III. on petition of the burgesses. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £11. 4. 4., endowed with £132 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a very ancient structure, supposed to have been erected by one of the West-Saxon monarchs, two of whose statues formerly ornamented the tower. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. Near the town is a mineral spring, which has been found efficacious in chronic diseases. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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