Dunkerton
| Dunkerton | |
| Somerset | |
|---|---|
 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
- ↑ National Heritage List 1135797: All Saints Church
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1129521: Powderhouse
- ↑ Down, C.G.; A. J. Warrington (2005). The history of the Somerset coalfield. Radstock: Radstock Museum. ISBN 0-9551684-0-6.