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Butleigh. Butleigh is a small village and civil parish, located in Somerset. The nearest village to it is Barton St David, and it is located a short distance from Glastonbury and Street. Its population is 823. [1] Butleigh has a church, small village shop, a Church of England primary school [2] and Butleigh Nursery School.
Butleigh is a small village located in the county of Somerset, England. It is situated approximately 5 miles east of Glastonbury and 7 miles south-west of Shepton Mallet. The village is surrounded by beautiful countryside and is home to a number of historic buildings, including the Grade I listed St Leonard's Church.
Butleigh is a small village and civil parish, located in Somerset. Butleigh has about 712 residents. Mapcarta, the open map. ... England, with a population of 12,709 ...
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Butleigh like this: BUTLEIGH, a parish in Wells district, Somerset; on the river Brue, 4 miles SSE of Glastonbury r. station. It includes the hamlet of Butleigh-Wootton; and has a post office under Glastonbury. Acres, 4,467. Real property, £8,139.
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The stretch of road along the ridge known as Reynold'sWay or High Street (fn. 13) and probably of Roman origin,seems to have been part of the route linking Ilchesterwith the Roman port at Crandon. (fn. 14) It was clearly animportant route and was defended by an earthworkknown as the New Ditch, similar to Ponter's Ball inGlastonbury. (fn. 15) The ro...
In the late 18th century there were said to be 700 inhabitants in the parish. (fn. 29) In 1801 the population was 694; itrose to 710 in 1811 and then to 952 in 1831 and, after afall to 872 in 1841, reached 1,035 in 1851 (fn. 30) and 1,038 in1861. Numbers declined to 954 in 1871, to 771 in 1881,to 636 in 1911, and to 479 in 1961. Thereafter the popu...
Royalist troops were entertained at Butleigh in 1642after the skirmish at Marshal's Elm in Street. (fn. 52) TheButleigh Friendly Society was started in 1832 and held afeast in May. It survived until after the First WorldWar. (fn. 53) There was a band room in Water Lane in the 19thcentury. (fn. 54) A cricket ground and pavilion had been builtwest of...
During the Middle Ages Glastonbury abbey was thedominant landowner in the parish but for much of itslater history Butleigh was divided between two estates. Inthe east Butleigh manor was centred on Butleigh House,later Court, and in the west the Butleigh Wootton estatearound Wootton House. Other holdings appear to havebeen absorbed into the larger o...
Agriculture
In 1086 the whole Butleigh estate was assessed at 20hides and there were 19 ploughteams. Glastonburyabbey held 5 hides in demesne and their tenants half thatamount with 6 teams. Alstan held half a hide with 1team. Roger de Courcelles held 2 hides in demesne butfurther details of his holding cannot be separated fromthose of Turstin son of Rolf, whose land has beenidentified as outside the parish. (fn. 215) The abbey demesne had7 serfs and its tenants comprised 11 villeins and 7bordars. Abbey d...
Woodland
The names Butleigh and Wootton both indicatesignificant woodland before the Conquest (fn. 297) and in 1086the abbot of Glastonbury had 100 a. there and the countof Mortain an area 2 furlongs by one furlong. (fn. 298) By c. 1260East and West woods were recorded and in the west fieldfurlong names indicated former woodland and woodland access; small pieces of meadow also had namessuggesting former woodland. Fields called Blackthornreferred to local species. (fn. 299) In the late 13th century und...
Mills
A mill was built in the 1170s and was let to a half-virgatetenant in 1189. (fn. 317) It was apparently returned to the lord'shands in 1324 when Robert le Tok released the site of themill, pond, and watercourse to the abbot of Glastonbury. (fn. 318) Two millers from Butleigh were presented at thehundred court in the 1530s and one in 1622. (fn. 319) TheButleigh manor watermill was last recorded in 1641; inthe early 18th century a tenement was said to have beenformerly a water gristmill. It may...
Butleigh formed a tithing in Whitley hundred, (fn. 362) but in the later 18th century the tithingman was elected by a rota which appeared to exclude Wootton. (fn. 363) Records of twice-yearly halimote courts survive from the 1260s to the 1540s. (fn. 364) In the 1530s courts were sometimes held at Baltonsborough. (fn. 365) Capitation payments for bo...
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