Shoscombe

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Shoscombe
Somerset
Location
Grid reference: ST717561
Location: 51°18’13"N, 2°24’24"W
Data
Population: 443  (2011)
Post town: Bath
Postcode: BA2
Local Government
Council: Bath & NE Somerset
Parliamentary
constituency:
North East Somerset

Shoscombe is a small village in Somerset, in the valley of the Wellow Brook in north-eastern Somerset, about seven miles south of Bath. The parish had a population of 443 in 2011.

From 23 September 1929 until the line closed on 7 March 1966, Shoscombe had a railway station, Shoscombe and Single Hill Halt, on the main line of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.

Shoscombe School is a Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School,[1] in a Grade II listed building.[2]

Outside links

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References

  1. "Shoscombe School". Shoscombe School. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081120175653/http://www.shoscombe.org.uk/. Retrieved 4 February 2008. 
  2. National Heritage List 1129512: Shoscombe Primary School and St Julian's Church