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Compton Pauncefoot is a village in Somerset, England, situated beside the A303 road, south west of Wincanton in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 139. The civil parish of Blackford and Compton Pauncefoot joins the village with Blackford (located one mile to the east) and therefore population is based on the two villages together. The civil parish holds a Parish Meeting twice a year and has no Parish Council. There are approximately 35 houses in the village of Compton Pauncefoot and a similar number in Blackford. Compton Pauncefoot is a designated Conservation Area.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Conservation Area )〕 The civil parish is in the Blackmore Vale ward of South Somerset District Council and Somerset County Council. ==History== The name of the village is believed to come from ‘compton’, or narrow valley, belonging to a Norman knight called Pauncefote (‘Fat-bellied’). The parish was part of the hundred of Catsash.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 Baron Blackford, of Compton Pauncefoot in the County of Somerset, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1935 for the barrister William James Peake Mason. He had already been created a Baronet, of Compton Pauncefoot in the County of Somerset, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1918. The titles became extinct in 1988 on the death of his great-grandson, the fourth Baron. 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「Compton Pauncefoot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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