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Bath-Easton in Somerset County England History and GeographyBATH-EASTON, a parish in the hundred of BATH-FORUM, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (N.E.) from Bath, containing, with the liberty of Easton and Amrill, 1,330 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with the curacy of St. Catherine, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £9. 6. 5., and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ-church, Oxford. The church, which has a beautiful tower, is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The village, divided into Upper and Lower Bath - Easton, is situated on the London road, between the Lower Avon and Lansdown, and at the base of a steep hill, on the summit of which there are vestiges of an intrenchment nearly circular, supposed to have been constructed by the Saxons when they besieged Bath, in 577: some antiquaries are of opinion that this hill was anciently crowned by a temple, erected by Bladud in honour of Apollo. The parish is within the jurisdiction of the court of requests held at Bath every Monday, for the recovery of debts under £10. Here is a school for eight boys, with an endowment of £5. 5. per annum, the bequest of John Hellier, in 1712. The Roman fosse-way passes through the parish: a variety of fossil shells have been found in the quarries on Lansdown. At a villa here resided Sir John Miller, whose lady established a literary festival for the recitation of prize poems, which were published under the title of 'Poetical Amusements:' she died in 1781, and was interred in the Abbey church at Bath. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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