East Huntspill is a village and civil parish on the Somerset Levels, near Highbridge, Somerset, England. The civil parish includes Cote, Hackness and Bason Bridge.
The parish of East Huntspill has a population of 1,146.
History
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 languages pwll.
The parish of Huntspill was part of the Huntspill and Puriton Hundred.
Three 18th century farmhouses in East Huntspill, Hackney, New Road and Phippins, have all been designated as Grade II .
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.[ Vision of Britain website] The parish of Huntspill All Saints was renamed East Hunstspill in 1972.
Governance
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.
Religious sites
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.
It has been designated as a Grade II
listed building.
It is on the Heritage at Risk Register because of the condition of the roof.
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.
See also
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Moore, R. (2005) A Parish Survey of East Huntspill and Bason Bridge (available via Somerset Studies Library, Taunton)
External links
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A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 8: The Poldens and the Levels: Huntspill (2004)
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The Somerset Urban Archaeological Survey: Burnham and Highbridge by Clare Gathercole
