Ditcheat

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Ditcheat
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Ditcheat post office (since closed)
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Population725 [1]
OS grid reference[[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] ST625365]
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Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSHEPTON MALLET
Postcode districtBA4
Dialling code01749
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PoliceAvon and Somerset
FireDevon and Somerset
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Ditcheat is a village and civil parish 4.5 miles (7 km) south of Shepton Mallet, and 2.5 miles (4 km) north-west of Castle Cary, in Somerset, England. Besides the village, the parish has four hamlets: Wraxall, Lower Wraxall, Alhampton and Sutton.

History

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Ditcheat belonged to Glastonbury Abbey and contained 36 families.[2] The parish of Ditcheat was part of the Whitstone Hundred.[3]

Nearby main roads are the A37, 1.5 miles (2 km) west of the village, connecting Bristol and Yeovil, and the A371, 1 mile (2 km) east, connecting Shepton Mallet and Wincanton. It lies near the River Brue which is crossed by Ansford bridge which dates from 1823.[4] Boulter's Bridge which spans the River Alham is of medieval origin[5] and has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[6] The parish is close to the Roman Fosse Way.

The Manor House is a 17th-century manor house built by Sir Ralph Hopton.[7]

Governance

The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

For local government purposes, since 1 April 2023, the village comes under the unitary authority of Somerset Council. Prior to this, it was part of the non-metropolitan district of Mendip, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Shepton Mallet Rural District.[8]

It is also part of the Frome and East Somerset county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It was part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament prior to Britain leaving the European Union in January 2020, which elected seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.

Religious sites

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Church of St Mary Magdalene, Ditcheat

The Church of St Mary Magdalene has 12th-century origins. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.[9]

The Abbey is a large house (formerly known as The Priory), built as the rectory by John Gunthorpe who was rector of Ditcheat, Dean of Wells and Lord Privy Seal, in 1473. The house was altered in 1667 for Christopher Coward; and given a new facade and rearranged internally in 1864–68, probably by James Piers St Aubyn for Rev. William Leir. The exterior is now mostly his Victorian neo-Tudor; inside there are reused fragments and some original 15th- and 17th-century work – coffered ceilings and the arch-braced roof of the ‘chapel wing’ – but most of the elaborate Gothic work dates from the 1860s.[10]

Priors Leigh on the Alhampton Road is a former chapel, now a private home.[11]

Alhampton is served by Alhampton Chapel, a small mission church and tin tabernacle which was erected in 1892.[12] Alhampton Chapel is under the auspices of St Mary Magdalene Church in Ditcheat, both of which form part of the Fosse Trinity Benefice.

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Alhampton Tabernacle
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Alhampton Inn

Community facilities

There is a public house in Ditcheat village, called The Manor House Inn, dating from the 17th century and which used to be owned by the lord of the manor.[13]

The Alhampton Inn, also known as the Knave of Clubs, is claimed to have been an alehouse from at least the seventeenth century.[14] After it closed in 2022, a community initiative supported by the Plunkett Foundation was set up to reopen the pub, and this was successfully achieved in August 2023.[15][16] In 2024, the pub won a Prince of Wales Award of Honour,[17] and was listed by the Daily Mail as one of the hundred best pubs in Britain.[18]

A new woodland, Haddon Wood, was established at Alhampton on 28 acres of land donated by the owner in 2013 to the Woodland Trust for the benefit of the local community.[19] The land has been planted with native and orchard trees, and has a pond.[20]

Sport

Ditcheat is home to the stables operated by Paul Nicholls, trainer of Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning horses Kauto Star and Denman.[21]

Notable people

References

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  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Havinden, Michael. The Somerset Landscape. The making of the English landscape. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 97. ISBN 0-340-20116-9.
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  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Shepton Mallet RD". A vision of Britain Through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
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  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Priors Leigh" (PDF). Chesterton Humberts.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Home". Alhampton Chapel. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  13. ^ CAMRA WhatPub.com Manor House Inn, Ditcheat
  14. ^ "Alhampton Inn: Our Story". Retrieved 28 October 2024
  15. ^ "The Alhampton Inn to reopen as a community-run pub", Somerset County Gazette, 23 June 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023
  16. ^ "Alhampton Inn: Our Story". Retrieved 25 August 2023
  17. ^ "Community Spirit Restores Alhampton Inn: A Triumph of Local Collaboration", Porter Dobson. Retrieved 28 October 2024
  18. ^ Daniel Clark, "Somerset pubs named among UK's best in Daily Mail top 100", Somerset Live, 12 October 2024. Retrieved 28 October 2024
  19. ^ John Vallins, "A woodland dream come true", The Guardian, 3 November 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2023
  20. ^ Haddon Wood, The Woodland Trust. Retrieved 25 August 2023
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gold Cup winner in village parade". BBC News. 14 March 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
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  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Scargill, Peter (18 June 2023). "'He deserved all the success he had, what a man' - Denman owner Paul Barber dies at the age of 80". Racing Post. Archived from the original on 13 November 2023. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
  24. ^ "Alhampton Open Gardens Afternoon", CharlesDowding.co.uk. Retrieved 23 October 2024

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