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Burnett is a small village within the civil parish of Compton Dando, approximately from the River Chew in the Chew Valley within the Unitary Authority of Bath and North East Somerset in Somerset, England. The nearest town is Keynsham, which lies approximately north of the village. The parish had an acreage of .〔(Burnett Genealogy )〕 It is within the Bristol/Bath Green Belt. ==History== The origin of the name Burnett is most likely derived from the old English word baernet, meaning a place cleared by burning, and the earliest evidence of a settlement was in the period of the Roman occupation. Burnett later appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086 with 30 inhabitants. In 1102 the village came under the control of the powerful ecclesiastical body of Tewkesbury Abbey and the Benedictine monks stopped to worship and rest at St Michael’s Church en route to Glastonbury. The manor was held by Edith of Wessex, probably from the time of her marriage to King Edward the Confessor in 1045, until her death in 1074. Along with other lands in Somerset, it was reverted to William the Conqueror. The religious upheavals of the 16th century saw Burnett finish in the hands of a wealthy Bristol merchant named John Cutte,(later, mayor of Bristol) and a fine wall brass (dated 1575) on the church’s chancel wall commemorates his family.〔Arthur Mee, "Somerset (King's England)". Hodder & Stroughton, ISBN 978-0340001011〕 The next notable was another Bristol merchant, John Whitson, who, on his death, bequeathed the parish of Burnett in trust to found a school for the orphaned daughters of Bristol’s aldermen and merchants, where "the said children to go and be apparelled in red". Thus was founded the country’s oldest surviving girl’s school, Red Maids School. 〔Walter Adam Sampson, A History of the Red Maids’ School, Bristol 1634-1908 (Privately printed 1924)〕 The parish of Burnett was part of the Keynsham Hundred,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 The growing population of Burnett gave rise to the need for a village school which was built in 1859 and the 1871 census showed the highest number of residents as 101. 〔Bristol Records Office, Cumberland Basin, Bristol.〕 However, following the drift from agriculture based livelihood to urban living the school was closed in 1922. Burnett was a separate parish until 1933. It was then merged into the neighbouring village of Compton Dando.〔(Compton Dando parish council info )〕 In 2013 Burnett still has two working farms which are largely arable with some pasture land for sheep grazing and the Paget family have been farming Elm farm since 1755.〔Alfred Paget, Memories of Burnett, undated.〕 Although the number of dwellings has increased, this is as a result of barn conversions rather than new buildings. The fact that Burnett has spent two lots of 400 years under the single ownership of first the church and then Bristol Municipal Charities, has resulted in little change with the village managing to maintain much of its character. There are now 23 homes with a population of around 60. The majority of residents no longer work on the land but commute to Bristol and Bath, run their businesses from home or are retired. The only communal building, St Michael’s church, still holds regular services as part of the Parish of Kenysham〔Keynsham Parish website, http://www.keynshamparish.org.uk/churches/st-michaels-burnett/〕 as it has done for over 1000 years. 〔Board displaying Rectors of St Michael’s Burnett, St Michael’s Church.〕 The old village pump, once the only source of water, stands at the centre of the village and was renovated in 2000 to mark the millennium. A small industrial estate off Gypsy Lane in the village includes premises for Network Commercial Systems Ltd, Helphire (UK) Ltd〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.businesspad.org/uk1_business26927_Helphire-UK-Ltd-Unit-13-Burnett-Business-Park-Gypsy-Lane-Keynsham-Bristol-Avon-BS31-2ED/ )〕 Aurora Scientific, Bath Bus Co, Casella Hazmat, Crescent Sash Services, Top Tier, Wessex Plant and other small companies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bristol.org.uk/street/Gypsy_Lane/ )〕 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「Burnett, Somerset」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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