Goathurst
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| Population | 193 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] ST255345] |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BRIDGWATER |
| Postcode district | TA5 |
| Dialling code | 01278 |
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| Police | Avon and Somerset |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
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Goathurst is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset, around 3 miles from the town of Bridgwater. The parish includes the hamlets of Andersfield and Huntstile. The village is on the route of the Samaritans Way South West.
History
Goathurst was part of the hundred of Andersfield.[2]
Originally part of the Royal Forest of North Petherton, its first squire owned[3] Goathurst's St Edward's church, a Grade I listed building[4] which includes a 19th-century monument to three-year-old Isabella Kemeys, showing the child lying on a pillow holding a broken flower.[5]
Goathurst was the location of a 300-person prisoner of war camp during World War II, initially housing Italian prisoners from the Western Desert Campaign, and later German prisoners following the Battle of Normandy.[6]
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 Sedgemoor, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Bridgwater Rural District.[7]
It is also part of the Bridgwater 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, and 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.
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Statistics for Wards, LSOAs and Parishes — SUMMARY Profiles" (Excel). Somerset Intelligence. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Andersfield hundred through time". A Vision of Britain Through Time. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Goathurst". Quantock Online. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Simmons, Louise. "The Hidden Churches of Somerset". Time Travel Britain. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Prisoner of War camp, Haswell Park, Goathurst". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bridgwater RD". A vision of Britain Through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
External links
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- Entry at Quantock online
- British History online comprehensive background on Goathurst and Haswell House
- Vision of Britain entry many statistics
- Entry at GENUKI
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- Archives Wales Script error: No such module "webarchive". information on the Kemeys-Tynte family
- John Salvatore Zuncheddu: story of the PoW camp
- Map of Goathurst from Sedgemoor online
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