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Wick St. Lawrence is a civil parish and village in Somerset, England. It falls within the unitary authority of North Somerset. The population of the parish, which includes Bourton, in the 2011 census was 1,331. ==History== The parish of Wick St Lawrence was part of the Winterstoke Hundred, while Bourton was in Portbury Hundred.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 The village lies near a small creek known as Slutspill near the River Yeo which was inundated in the Bristol Channel floods, 1607. The last wharf on the river was pier and spur of the old Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway (at what is known as "Tutshill Ear") which was torn up during World War I. For a short period after this coal was imported from south Wales on its own 33 ton vessel the ''Lily'', until it sank in a gale in 1929. The 15th century village cross stands on an area of grass opposite the parish church, raised up on five ascending octagonal stone platforms. The crosshead was destroyed during the time of the English Civil Wars.〔 It is a Grade II * listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument. The Ebdon Bow Bridge which carries the road from the village to nearby Worle over the River Banwell was built in the late 18th or early 19th century. The parish has seen a vast increase in population in recent years, due to the building of the Ebdon Grounds housing development. This is an extension of the development of the neighbouring North Worle area, and the village itself remains separate from the new estate. 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「Wick St. Lawrence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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