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:''for the hamlet four miles northwest of Dulverton in western Somerset, see Ashwick (near Dulverton)'' Ashwick is a village in the Mendip district of Somerset, England, about three miles north of Shepton Mallet and seven miles east from Wells. It has also been a civil parish since 1826. The parish had a population of 1,352 according to the 2011 census,〔 and apart from Ashwick village also includes Gurney Slade and Oakhill. ==History== The nearby Maesbury Railway Cutting of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway exposes approximately 135 metres of strata representing the middle and upper Lower Limestone Shales and the basal Black Rock Limestone. Both formations are of early Carboniferous (Courceyan) age. Although Oakhill is the larger village today, Ashwick is the older settlement, dating back to Anglo-Saxon times. It appears in the Domesday book as a settlement called Escewiche, which translates as 'the hamlet or farmstead by the ash trees'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ashwick Parish Design Statement )〕 The Fosse Way passes to the east of the parish. The parish of Ashwick was part of the Hundred of Kilmersdon,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕〔http://opendomesday.org/place/ST6348/ashwick/ Open Domesday Map: Ashwick〕 Anthony Newley's short-lived 1960 ATV series ''The Strange World of Gurney Slade'', in which Newley starred, continues to have a cult following owing to its postmodern premise that the Newley character is trapped inside a television programme. The village is the site of Ashwick Court, a country house dating from the late 17th century and Grade II * listed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 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「Ashwick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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