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Over Stowey is a small village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, South West England. It sits in the foothills of the Quantock Hills, just above Nether Stowey and north-west of Bridgwater. The parish includes the hamlets of Plainsfield, Aley, Adscombe, Friarn and Bincombe.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Over Stowey )〕 ==History== Nearby is Dowsborough Camp (or ''Danesborough'' or ''Dawesbury''), an Iron Age hill fort. Another Iron Age site at Plainsfield Camp may have been an enclosure for animals rather than a defended settlement. It is possible that a Roman road ran from here to the Quantocks, because the names Nether Stowey and Over Stowey come from the Old English stan wey, meaning 'stone way'.〔''Dumnonia and the Valley of the Parret'', Rev. W.H.P. Greswell (1922)〕 By the 12th century the parish had both a church and the 'old castle precinct' on the Stowey 'herpath'. The castle may have been the caput of the estate of Alfred d'Epaignes at Stowey. It survives as a large, flat mound to the north of Over Stowey village.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Over Stowey )〕 Over Stowey was part of the hundred of Cannington.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18546 )〕 The village was the site of six fulling mills and was a site for copper mining.〔 Plainsfield was a centre for weaving and pottery, the manor having been held by the family of Admiral Robert Blake from around 1600.〔 In the 1830s three quarters of the land of the parish was bought by Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton who built Quantock Lodge as his home which later became a school. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Over Stowey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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