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Evercreech is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. The village is 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Shepton Mallet , and 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Castle Cary . The parish includes the hamlet of Stoney Stratton and the village of Chesterblade .
evercreech church. The Church of St Peter in Evercreech, Somerset, England, dates from the 14th century and is a Grade I listed building. [1]The three-stage tower has set-back buttresses ascending to pinnacles, with a very tall transomed two-light bell-chamber with windows on each face The embattled parapet has quatrefoil piercing, with big corner pinnacles and smaller intermediate pinnacles.
The show began life as a ploughing match between local farmers organised by the Evercreech Farmers Club but by the 1870s this had metamorphosed into a cattle show, [2] appropriate given the dairy farming in the region. Separate classes existed for horses, and for cheese and butter-making.
Small Down Knoll, or Small Down Camp, is a Bronze Age hill fort near Evercreech in Somerset, England. The hill is on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills , and rises to 222 m (728 ft). Finds of flints indicate a prehistoric Mesolithic occupation.
The Evercreech to Bath section of the S&D, the section which Midsomer Norton South was a part of, opened on 20 July 1874. It was a final attempt by the S&D to achieve profitability by connecting to Bath and crossing the Somerset Coalfield.
Jenkyns was born in Evercreech in Somerset, and was baptised on 21 December 1782. He was the eldest son of John Jenkyns (1753-1824), prebendary of Wells, and his wife Jane, née Banister. [ 2 ] He was appointed a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford , in 1802, and later served as a Tutor in 1813, Bursar in 1814, and Master from 23 April 1819 until ...
Evercreech Junction was a railway station at Evercreech on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. Originally opened in 1862 as "Evercreech" on the original S&D line from Burnham-on-Sea to Broadstone, it became in 1874 the junction for the northwards extension towards Bath that bankrupted the company.
The name of the village means the middle settlement, possibly because it is halfway between Evercreech and Bruton. [2] An early Iron Age earthwork, probably a stock enclosure but known as Fox Covert, [3] [4] occupies a spur of Creech Hill overlooking the River Alham valley. The site includes a possible barrow on the west.