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Dunkerton
Somerset
Geograph 3202937 All Saints church, Dunkerton.jpg
All Saint's Church in Dunkerton
Location
Grid reference: ST710593
Location: 51°19’59"N, 2°25’1"W
Data
Population: 502  (2011)
Post town: BATH
Postcode: BA2
Dialling code: 01761
Local Government
Council: Bath & NE Somerset
Parliamentary
constituency:
North East Somerset

Dunkerton is a small village in Somerset, four miles north-east of Radstock, and six miles south-west of Bath. The parish had a population of 502 in 2011. It is within the county's Wellow Hundred.

Parish church

All Saints' Church dates from the 14th century and is a Grade II* listed building.[1]

History

The village is called Duncretone in the Domesday Book,[2] and had earlier been held by a thegn named Alwold "the bald" in the reign of Edward the Confessor, who was possibly Alwold of Stevington. After the conquest it was granted along with other fiefs to a tenant called Turstin FitzRolf, also known as Tosteins Fitz-Rou and “le Blanc” of the Bec-en-Caux region of Normandy, who was described as a valiant warrior at the Battle of Hastings.[2]

In the 18th and 19th century Dunkerton was surrounded by several coal mines on the Somerset coalfield. Evidence remains in the powderhouse, which dates from 1870 and is a Grade II listed building.[3] The mine was the site of riots in 1908–09 about the working conditions in the Dunkerton Pit.[4]

Parts of the Ealing comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt were filmed at the disused Dunkerton Colliery.

Outside links

References

  1. National Heritage List 1135797: All Saints Church
  2. 2.0 2.1 A History of the County of Somerset - Volume 1 pp 479-526: Text of the Somerset Domesday: Part 2 (Victoria County History)
  3. National Heritage List 1129521: Powderhouse
  4. Down, C.G.; A. J. Warrington (2005). The history of the Somerset coalfield. Radstock: Radstock Museum. ISBN 0-9551684-0-6.