East Huntspill is a village and civil parish on the Huntspill Level, near Highbridge, Somerset, England. The civil parish includes Cote, Hackness and Bason Bridge.
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The Crown Inn and road junction |
East Huntspill
Location within Somerset
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Huntspill was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Honspil, meaning 'Huna's creek' possibly from the Old English personal name Huna and from the Celtic pwll.[2]
The parish of Huntspill was part of the Huntspill and Puriton Hundred.[3]
Three 18th century farmhouses in East Huntspill, Hackney, New Road and Phippins, have all been designated as Grade II listed buildings.[4][5][6]
In 1949 the civil parish of Huntspill was abolished and divided into Huntspill All Saints and West Huntspill along the line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway.[7] The parish of Huntspill All Saints was renamed East Hunstspill in 1972.
Religious sites
All Saints Church
The Anglican parish Church of All Saints in East Huntspill was built in 1839 by G P Manners, as a chapel-of-ease to the then parish church at Huntspill. It became the parish church in 1845, when the chapelry was formed into a parochial district, and the bell-chamber was added in the late 19th century.[10] It has been designated as a Grade II listed building.[11] It is on the Heritage at Risk Register because of the condition of the roof.[12]
There was a United Methodist chapel in East Huntspill built in 1923, which replaced an earlier building in Chapel Lane. The chapel closed by 1997.