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Stanton-Drew in Somerset County England History and GeographySTANTON-DREW, a parish in the hundred of KEYNSHAM, county of SOMERSET, 1½ mile (W. by S.) from Pensford, containing 622 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Pensford annexed, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £7. 2. 8½., and in the patronage of the Archdeacon of Bath. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The river Chew runs through the parish, and is crossed by a stone bridge. Richard Jones, in 1688, bequeathed two-fifths of the proceeds of an estate for educating and apprenticing poor children: the income is £60 a year, and about thirty boys have the benefit of it. Six poor girls are instructed for £5 per annum, the gift of Elizabeth Lyde, in 1772. The neighbourhood abounds with various objects of interest to the antiquary, the most prominent of which are, Maes Knoll Tump, a stupendous barrow, and an extensive Druidical temple of three circles of stones, whose diameters are respectively one hundred and twenty, forty-three, and thirty-two yards, spreading itself over ten acres of ground: the stones, which are of amazing proportions, were apparently brought from the neighbouring quarries; many of them, however, now lie prostrate on the ground. The name of Belton, or Belluton, a hamlet at nearly an equal distance from each of these British monuments, is thought to be a corruption of Belgeton, a town of the Belg?, being situated on the line of Wansdyke, the ancient boundary of their territory. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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