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Bathwick in Somerset County England History and GeographyBATHWICK, a parish in the hundred of BATH-FORUM, county of SOMERSET, ½ a mile (N.E.) from Bath, containing 4009 inhabitants. The living is a rectory and a vicarage, consolidated with Wooley, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath and Wells; the rectory is rated in the king's books at £3. 6. 8., and the vicarage at £8. 3. 4., and in the patronage of the Marquis of Cleveland. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was erected in 1820; it is a handsome and spacious structure in the decorated style of English architecture, with a beautiful altar-piece, painted and presented to the parish by Mr. B. Barber. This elegant suburb to the city of Bath, at the beginning of the last century, consisted only of a few scattered houses unpleasantly situated on an extensive marsh, frequently inundated by the river Avon. From the discovery here of a large portion of those interesting relies which are deposited in the museum at Bath, this place appears to have formed no inconsiderable part of that city at a remote period of antiquity, and to have retained its importance, during the successive occupation of Bath by the Britons, Romans, and Saxons. Since the last census, it has greatly increased in extent and population, and now contains some of the most elegant ranges of building which adorn that city: Pulteney-street, Laura-place, and Sydney-place and gardens, are all in this parish, and several beautiful villas and handsome residences, have been erected on the acclivities of the hill, extending nearly a mile, in a dircction toward the pleasant and retired village of Claverton. Bathwick is connected with Bath by two handsome bridges over the river Avon, and appears to be rather an integral part of the city itself, than an appendage to it. The Kennet and Avon canal, in its course through Sydney-gardens, has been made available to the introduction of a pleasing variety into the grounds; and an elegant stone bridge of one arch, with a handsome iron pallisade, which has been erected over it, forms an interesting feature in the scenery of this enchanting place. In decorating these gardens an entire pig of lead, weighing 1951b., and bearing the official stamp 'IMP. HADRIANI AUG.,' and several smaller pieces of that metal, were found; from which circumstance, it is very probable that this was the site of some Roman lead-works. There is a manufactory for broad cloth in the parish; and, in addition to the Kennet and Avon canal, the Somersetshire coal canal passes through it. Bathwick is within the liberty of the city of Bath, and under the jurisdiction of a court of requests which is held there every Monday, for the recovery of debts under £10. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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