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A History of the County of Somerset - Volume VI: Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes) (Hardcover)
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A History of the County of Somerset - Volume VI: Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes) (Hardcover)
Series: Victoria County History
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Andersfield, Cannington, and North Pether-ton hundreds together
occupy the Lower Par-rett valley stretching from the Quantock ridge
in the west to King's Sedgemoor in the east, and from the Bristol
Channel in the north to the river Tone in the south. By the late
11th century the settlement pattern was dense, especially between
the Quantocks and the Par-rett, an area crossed by the Saxon
'herpath' in the north and including the 10th-century strongholds
of Athelney and Lyng in the south and the Domesday royal manors of
Can-nington, North Petherton, and Creech St. Michael. The origin of
the medieval royal park at North Petherton can be traced to a
pre--Conquest royal forest on the Quantocks, and North Petherton
was an extensive minster parish. Bridgwater, a chartered borough
from 1200, is the only significant town. By the later Middle Ages
its port served central, south, and west Somerset, and until the
19th century heavy goods continued to be transported along the
Parrett, the Tone, and the Bridgwater and Taunton canal into Dorset
and Devon. The pattern of settlement is varied, with a few
nucleated villages, roadside villages, and many dispersed hamlets.
Interlocking parish boundaries indicate complex economic units and
late parochial formation. Arable farming predominated until the
16th century, partly in open arable fields. In the 17th century
there was an emphasis on stock rearing and an increase in dairying
and orchards, large-ly the result of improved drainage. Cheese was
an important product of the area in the 18th century, and in the
19th baskets from locally grown willow. Woollen cloth production
con-tinued into the 17th century. From the late 17th century the
alluvial clays of the Parrett valley provided material for the
bricks and tiles for which Bridgwater became well known in the 19th
century. Substantial estates whose houses wholly or partially
survive include Fairfield, Gothelney, Gurney Street, West Bower,
and Sydenham. Halswell House was from the later 17th century the
grandest mansion in the area, and Enmore Castle was built in the
later 18th century.
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