Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, such as the village hall or community centre, playing fields and playgrounds, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street ...
Abolish an existing parish and dissolve its parish council; In order to abolish an existing parish council, the principal council must provide evidence that this in response to "justified, clear and sustained local support" from the area's inhabitants. [7] Where a new parish is formed with 1,000 electors or more, a parish council must be formed.
A parish meeting is a meeting all the electors in a civil parish in England are entitled to attend. [1]In some cases, where a parish or group of parishes has fewer than 200 electors, the parish meeting can take on the role of a parish council, with statutory powers, and electing a chairman and clerk to act on the meeting's behalf.
Long Ashton was a rural district in Somerset, England, from 1894 to 1974. It was created in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894 . In 1974 it was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972 to become part of North Somerset .
The village is in the civil parish of Long Ashton, but in the ecclesiastical parish of Abbots Leigh with Leigh Woods. The church of St Mary the Virgin was designed by the architect John Medland and built in 1891. [3] [4]
Amongst the gravestones and memorials in the churchyard are several which are Grade II* listed buildings. The oldest is for John and Alice Smith who died in 1591. [8] A chest tomb of Elizabeth Phelps from 1698, [9] and one of Anna Whiting from 1700, [10] The memorial to George Whiting was added in 1709, [11] and Robert Whiting in 1662, [12] while another Robert Whiting is from 1679, [13] and ...
Gatcombe at Ashton Watering within the civil parish of Long Ashton, Somerset, England, is the location of a Grade II* listed building [2] which was built on the site of a Roman settlement. It is close to the Land Yeo river, the A370 road and the Bristol to Exeter railway line .
Escutcheon of the Smith baronets of Long Ashton [1] The Smith baronetcy of Long Ashton, Somerset was created on 27 January 1763 for Jarrit Smyth, in the Baronetage of Great Britain. He was an attorney in Bristol, landowner and member of the Steadfast Society; [2] and was Member of Parliament for Bristol from 1756 to 1768. [3]