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Doulting is a village and civil parish east of Shepton Mallet, on the A361, in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. ==History== The parish of Doulting was part of the Whitstone Hundred.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 The parish includes the village of Bodden, which was founded in 1541 by Earl Michael Bodden (1512-1569). Notable former residents include Trish Bodden (1753-1777), who disguised herself as a man to fight in the American War of Independence (she was killed at Saratoga), and Amrose Bowden (''sic''), the first English colonist to settle in Maine.〔(Bodden Family Crest )〕 Also a part of the parish is Prestleigh which was on the former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The viaduct that carried it over the village was demolished in 1996; the railway itself had been out of use for a number of years before this. There is one pub in the village, the Prestleigh Inn. Doulting village dates from the 8th century when King Ine of Wessex gave the local estate to Glastonbury Abbey after his nephew St Aldhelm died in the village in 709.〔Powicke, Sir F. Maurice (editor) () (1961). ''Handbook of British Chronology'', p. 254. London: The Royal Historical Society.〕 In his honour the local spring which is the source of the River Sheppey is called St Aldhelm's Well. The well head was built in the late 19th century and incorporates a wrought-iron pump handle. It is marked with a cast-iron plate with raised initials: "W.N.F.M.", and an additional brass memorial plaque dating from 1976.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Well head with pump at NGR ST 6468 4318 )〕 Folklore has attributed healing powers to the water from the well.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=St Aldhelm's well, Doulting, Somerset )〕 The poet John Edmund Reade went to school in Doulting, and later wrote a poem about a return visit there, called 'Lines upon Doulting Sheep-slate', a "sheep-slate" being a piece of pasture used for grazing sheep. In it he says that: And Mendip's bleak and barren heights again enclosed me round, Like faces of forgotten friends met on forgotten ground. The tithe barn at the southern end of the village dates from the 15th century and was used to store tithes, from the local farmers to the ecclesiastical landlord at Glastonbury Abbey.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tithe Barn in farmyard at Manor Farm )〕 Around the village there are some extensive quarries of freestone, from which Wells Cathedral and later additions to Glastonbury Abbey and other churches were built.〔 Doulting Stone Quarry has been producing stone since Roman times. Until 1994 it was operated by Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation (part of Hanson plc since 1989), at which time the landowner terminated the tenancy and now operates the quarry as an independent business.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Quarry History )〕 The stone is oolite of middle Jurassic age deposited as sediments in fairly shallow coastal seas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Geology )〕 The heritage East Somerset Railway runs just to the south of the village, and terminates at the Mendip Vale railway station. 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「Doulting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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