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Chew (Magna) in Somerset County England History and GeographyCHEW (MAGNA), a parish in the hundred of CHEW, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (W.) from Pensford, containing, with the tythings of Bishop-Sutton, Knowle, Knighton-Sutton, North Elm, and Stow, 1884 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with the curacy of Dundry annexed in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £30. 13. 4. The Rev. T. Lindsey was patron in 1787. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is a massive and spacious edifice, having a tower at the west end, surmounted by a balustrade, with a turret at one angle. This was anciently a borough and market-town; it is sometimes called Bishop's Chew, from being the property of the bishop of the diocese. Here was a considerable manufactory for cloth, but the only trade now carried on is in stockings and edge tools, and that to a very limited extent. The petty sessions for the division are held here. Endowments in land and money, producing about £13 per annum, are appropriated to teaching and apprenticing poor children of the parish. In an enclosure to the north-east of the church are the remains of a Druidical temple, forming a double circle of huge stones. On an eminence which commands a fine and extensive view towards the Bristol channel, is Bow-Ditch, a circular Roman camp, with triple intrenchments. A red bole, of an astringent quality, vulgarly termed redding, is found here: it has been used by apothecaries, and for marking sheep in most parts of England, from time immemorial. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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