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Fivehead Parish, Somerset
My wife and I visited your lovely church in July 1982 where we discovered that our family bible was used on the pulpit every Sunday.
The Bible was donated by my ancestor, Mary Corpe in approx. 1854.
We were told Mary Corpe handed out sixpences on the front door step on her 100th birthday. We also have a stained glass window which was donated in her memory in the window of the church.
I would be interested in having family history from the back of the bible (births, deaths & marriages etc) sent to me if possible. Would somebody be able to help?
Many thanks for a wonderful visit.
Regards
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A memory of Fivehead contributed by Robert Corpe
The Old School House
The Old School House was the village school, which opened in 1868 and closed in 1960. The school was built by the landowner using the local blue lias stone. The windows were reclaimed from the Abbey, as were corbals and other pieces of stonework and are a definite feature of the property. The school took all ages until the early 1870's when it was split into infants and juniors. At its height there were 52 children on the register and two teachers. The school was overseen by a management committee and the record book of the meetings of the committee, from the day it was opened to when it was closed, is still in the possession of a family in the ...read more here
A memory of Muchelney contributed by Stephen Baker
Wonderful visit!
We had the priviledge of staying in Muchelney during December 2007! What a discovery! We stayed in a beautiful cottage, had lovely hosts. As visitors from Africa, we experienced our first real heavy frost. The pools of water looked as if were covered in glass! One morning we went for a walk in the village and stepped onto these "glass pools", which of course cracked under out feet, breaking it into fragments of glass. A visit to the Muchelney Church building proved to be very interesting, and the inside of the church is quite informative and beautiful. Opposite the church a cottage was being rethatched. It was the first ...read more here
A memory of Muchelney contributed by Susan Neethling
South Petherton Family
I was born at Harp Road Garage, the eldest of 4 boys. I was educated at boarding schools and played cricket for South Petherton. My grandparents and great grandparents owned the original Wheatsheaf Inn opposite the Blake Hall.
My grandmother left the Wheatsheaf to live in The Little Thatch, St James Street. My father, Ernie Giles, was born in 1901 and died in 2003 at Hayes End, having lived all his life in South Petherton.
A memory of South Petherton contributed by Nigel Giles
Extracts From Hambridge & Somerset books
It is a relief to reach the archaeologically rich and
beautiful headland of Brean Down, a carboniferous
limestone outlier of the Mendips reaching 300 feet
high, from whose bare grassy slopes are long views
to Wales, Glastonbury and along the Somerset coast.
Closer in, you can look down on Weston Bay and
Weston-super-Mare to the north: it is probably
better not to look too closely at the holiday sprawl
along the road back to Burnham-on-Sea.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
The Church 1961
Heading back towards Highbridge and the end of
this seaside tour, we head for East Brent on the
north-east side of Brent Knoll; this is an Upper Lias
limestone outlier rising steeply from the flat lands
surrounding it. East Brent’s church has a tall,
slender spire, but its most remarkable feature is the
nave ceiling of 1637 which has a sinuous pattern of
imitation vault ribs focusing on three pendant
bosses done in a Gothic revival style.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
This lane leads from the main through road to the church and Manor House. The house on the left has been
demolished, and the lane now has modern houses on both sides. The church with its elegant 15th-century west tower
is well worth visiting for its medieval woodwork, including the benches and roofs.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
The Knoll, rising 550 feet from the Somerset flatlands between the Rivers Axe and Brue, is topped by one of
Somerset’s finest Iron Age hill forts. The sides of the Knoll are fringed with medieval strip linchets, or terraces,
formed for ploughing very steep slopes. Brent Knoll village straggles along the western side of the Knoll, with St
Michael’s Church, a dedication often associated with hill-tops and hills, to the centre and the Manor House of the
1860s to the right.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
Chapter 2’s tour finishes at Highbridge, not one of Somerset’s most attractive towns. This view looks along Church
Street from its junction with Market Street and Tylers Way; the latter is a modern road and where the boys stand is
now a roundabout. The George Hotel on the right with the porch survives, but the branch railway line to Burnham-
on-Sea, its level crossing gates shown closed, has long gone.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".