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Butleigh is a small village and civil parish, located in Somerset. The nearest village to it is Barton St David, and it is located a short distance from Glastonbury and Street. Its population is 823.〔 Butleigh has a church, small village shop, a Church of England primary school〔(Butleigh Primary School )〕 and Butleigh Nursery School. ==History== The parish of Butleigh was part of the Whitley Hundred.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 Butleigh Court, which was abandoned for many years and has now been brought back into use, is noted for its interesting architecture including the tall carved chimney stacks, which are all different. Local legend has it that the family was cursed to die out within a hundred years, which subsequently happened. Another interesting landmark is the cedar avenue, just outside the village. It was built in 1845 by J. C. Buckler, for Henry Neville-Grenville, on the site of an earlier building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 The village history is told in a slim book, ''Butleigh — One thousand years of an English Village'', by E. F. Synge, a former vicar at the parish church. A reconstruction of life of one farm worker, John Hodges, who lived in the village during the Victorian era, is illustrated at the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury. There is the lofty column of the Admiral Hood Monument raised to the memory of Sir Samuel Hood on a hill near Butleigh, and in Butleigh Church is another memorial,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 with an inscription written by Robert Southey. There is also a 16th-century pub in Butleigh called The Rose and Portcullis. 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「Butleigh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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