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Spaxton is a small village and civil parish on the Quantocks in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, South West England. ==History== Spaxton 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 parish includes the village of Aisholt which is one of the Thankful Villages - those villages that suffered no fatalities during the Great War of 1914-1918, and contains the 14th century Church of All Saints.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 Also in the parish is the village of Charlynch (or Charlinch) where, around 1850 Henry James Prince the founder of the Agapemonites was ordained to the curacy of Charlinch, where he had sole charge in the illness and absence of the rector, the Rev. Samuel Starkey. The Church of St Mary was an Anglican Parish Church, but has now been deconsecrated. It dates from the 11th century with a tower probably of 1867. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 It contains monuments and tablets to the family of Admiral Robert Blake. The name of Spaxton originates from "Spakr", a Dane who settled in the area in about the 9th century.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Spaxton )〕 An alternative derivation relies on it being recorded as Spacheston in the Domesday Book, meaning 'The councillor's enclosure', from the Old English ''spæcas'' and tun. It was the property of Alfred of Spain. During the 19th century, the village was home to the notorious religious cult of the Agapemone.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Spaxton )〕 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「Spaxton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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