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:''There is another village called Freshford in Ireland.'' Freshford is a village and civil parish in the Avon valley south-east of Bath, in the county of Somerset, England. The parish has a population of 551.〔 It is in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), within the Green Belt〔 and is in a conservation area. The village of Freshford includes the smaller hamlets of Friary, Sharpstone, Park Corner, Woodside and Staples Hill, which are separated from the village centre by a few hundred metres of open fields. The village history goes back to Saxon times and it expanded with the growth of local industry but is now largely residential. ==History== The village has existed since Saxon times,〔 and existed before the land at ''Fersceforde'' was given to Bath Abbey after the Norman Conquest. A mill existed here as early as 1086 and there are still remains of one built in the 1540s.〔 Freshford was part of the hundred of Bath Forum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 Freshford Bridge over the River Frome dates from the early to mid 16th century.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 In the 19th century freestone and fuller's earth were mined in the parish and employment included the manufacture of cloth, operation of malt-kilns, breweries, and fulling-mills.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Freshford )〕 The importance of weaving can be seen at the now derelict site of Freshford Mill, and the numerous weavers' cottages in the village.〔 Dunkirk Mill, which was built in 1795 for Thomas Joyce, is now a residential property located just over the parish boundary in Hinton Charterhouse.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 The war memorial in the village commemorates the 17 men from the village who died in World War I and four from World War II.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Freshford War Memorial )〕 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「Freshford, Somerset」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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