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| {{Infobox town
| | #REDIRECT [[Trent]] |
| |name=Trent
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| |county=Somerset
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| |picture=Trent Church (St. Andrews) (20044853709).jpg
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| |picture caption=The church of St Andrew, Trent
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| |os grid ref=ST592186
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| |latitude=50.9652
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| |longitude=-2.5821
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| |population=317
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| |census year=2011
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| |post town=Sherborne
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| |postcode=DT9
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| |LG district=Dorset
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| |constituency=West Dorset
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| }}
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| '''Trent''' is a village in the very south of [[Somerset]], close to the border with [[Dorset]]. The village sits in the [[River Yeo (South Somerset)|Yeo valley]] four miles north-east of [[Yeovil]] and four miles north-west of [[Sherborne]], the latter across the border in Dorset.
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| The parish is within the [[Horethorne Hundred]] of Somerset.<ref name=genuki>{{cite web|title=Somerset Hundreds|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/|publisher=GENUKI|accessdate=9 October 2011}}</ref>
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| The 2011 census recorded a population in the parish, which includes the small settlement of [[Adber]] to the north, at 317.
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| ==About the village==
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| The manor house is Trent House. King Charles II stayed at Trent House for several days during his escape to France in 1651.
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| |[[File:Almshouses in Trent - geograph.org.uk - 477443.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Almshouses]]
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| |[[File:The Chantry from the Churchyard - Trent - geograph.org.uk - 855780.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Chantry from the churchyard]]
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| |[[File:St Andrew's Parish Church and The Chantry - Trent - geograph.org.uk - 855758.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Church of St Andrew]]
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| |[[File:Manor Farmhouse - Trent - geograph.org.uk - 442099.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Manor Farmhouse]]
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| The Trent Estate is owned by the Ernest Cook Trust, purchased by Ernest Cook in 1935 as the first of a number of estates he purchased for their protection.
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| The village has good architecture from the Mediæval, Tudor, and later periods, with many trees in the background.<ref name=b>Betjeman, John, ed. 'Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches; the South' (Collins, 1968); p. 177</ref>
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| The church of St Andrew is architecturally interesting and the lateral tower is topped by one of the three ancient stone spires of Dorset. The church was built in the 13th century and enlarged in the 14th and 15th centuries. Restoration and refitting was done about 1840 in a pre-Victorian way. Features of interest include the rood screen, the pulpit of continental origin, the 16th century bench ends and the old painted glass in the east window.<ref name=b/>
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| ==Outside links==
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| {{commons|Trent, Dorset}}
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| ==References==
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| {{reflist}}
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