Ashill, Somerset
| Ashill | |
| Somerset | |
|---|---|
| File:Ashill church.jpg St Mary's, Ashill | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | ST322172 |
| Location: | 50°57’4"N, 2°57’59"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 529 (2011) |
| Post town: | Ilminster |
| Postcode: | TA19 |
| Dialling code: | 01460 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Somerset |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Yeovil |
Ashill is a small village in Somerset, standing seven miles south of Taunton, and three miles north-west of Ilminster. The wider parish includes the hamlet of Windmill Hill and had a recorded a population of 529 in 2011.
It has a small junior school, a village pub named The Ashill Inn, a village hall and a playing field.
History
Ashill is listed in the Domesday Book and noted for its extensive woodland. The manor passed from the de Vaux family to Sir Thomas Moulton by 1317, and then through the Stretche and Beauchamp families to the Spekes who built Jordans as their mansion, which was demolished in the 1960s,[1] although the grotto/summer house (dating from 1828) in the grounds survives.[2] The grotto is on the Heritage at Risk Register due to vandalism despite re-thatching.[3]
Church
The parish church, St Mary's[4] has also borne a most unusual name for a Protestant church; the 'Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary' and dates from the 12th or 13th century, with various later alterations. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.[5] The old rectory has some 16th-century fragments but was largely rebuilt around 1800.[6]
Places of interest
- Rowland's Farm (15th-century) the home of the Speke family.[7]
- Rowland's Mill, a 17th century hamstone watermill.[8]
- 18th-century cider house.[9]
Outside links
| ("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Ashill, Somerset) |
- Ashill, Somerset in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ Bush, Robin (1994). Somerset: The complete guide. Wimborne, Dorset: Dovecote Press. ISBN 1-874336-27-X. https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1057070: Grotto at Jordans (Grade @ listing)
- ↑ "The Grotto at Jordans, Ashill — South Somerset". Heritage at Risk. English Heritage. http://risk.english-heritage.org.uk/register.aspx?id=50000.
- ↑ Isle Valley Benefice: Our Churches
- ↑ National Heritage List 1057100: Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1295733: The Old Rectory (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1057097: Rowland's Farm House, and attached outbuildings around courtyard on north side, including well (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1345847: Rowland's Mill (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1057067: Cider House (Grade II listing)