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Milborne Port is a village, electoral ward and civil parish in Somerset, England, east of Sherborne, and in the South Somerset district. It has a population of 2,802.〔 The parish includes the hamlets of Milborne Wick, Kingsbury Regis and Stowell. The village is surrounded by green fields and countryside on the banks of the River Gascoigne, a tributary of the River Ivel or River Yeo. The village has a primary school, which occupies the site of the former infant school. The junior school was closed and all pupils and staff moved to the infant site. In 2006 a new three-classroom extension was opened. ==History== The nearby Laycock Railway Cutting is the best single exposure of the Bathonian ’Fuller's Earth Rock’ in South Somerset.〔 Ammonites indicating the Morrisi and Subcontractus zones of the Middle Bathonian are frequent.〔(English Nature citation sheet for Laycock Railway Cutting ) (accessed 10 August 2006)〕 Miller's Hill is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which is an important and historically famous locality for studies of Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) stratigraphy and palaeontology.〔(English Nature citation sheet for Miller's Hill, Milborne Wick ) (accessed 10 August 2006)〕 Prehistoric features and finds have been located on the Iron Age hill fort on Barrow Hill, in the north of the parish. In the Saxon period Milborne Port was important as a mint town, between 997 and 1035.〔 It is one of at least nineteen mint towns which were neither an Alfredian borough nor an eleventh-century shire town, but a minster site. The market was the most profitable in Somerset in 1086,and the town was eighth in the county tax collection in 1340. The "port" in the towns name signifies an important market town and was first recorded in 1249. The parish was part of the hundred of Horethorne.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 In 1770, Milborne Port was the site of events involving an exploding squib at the local fair that would result in a landmark case for the development of modern tort (personal injury) law. The case of ''Scott v. Shepherd''〔2 Blackstone's Reports 892, 96 Eng. Rep. 525 (1773)〕 helped establish the principles of remoteness, foreseeability, and intervening cause in modern common law torts. Shepherd tossed a lit squib into a crowded market in the town, where it landed on the table of a gingerbread merchant named Yates. Willis, a bystander, grabbed the squib and threw it across the market to protect himself and the gingerbread. Unfortunately, the squib landed in the goods of another merchant named Ryal. Ryal immediately grabbed the squib and tossed it away, accidentally hitting Scott in the face just as the squib exploded. The explosion put out one of Scott's eyes. Shepherd was found to be fully liable, because, said De Gray CJ, "I do not consider (intermediaries ) as free agents in the present case, but acting under a compulsive necessity for their own safety and self-preservation." 〔96 Eng. Rep. 525 (K.B. 1773)〕 In 1805, the town was described as follows: * "MILBORN PORT, (Som.) bor. dist. from London 113 m. 7 f. () situated on a branch of the river Parret, and may be considered as divided into three parts, viz. ''Milborn Port, Kingsbury Regis,'' and ''Milborn Wyke''; however, the borough and Kingsbury lie in many places promiscuously intermixed together, both in the main town, and at Milborn Wyke; Milborn Wyke being as a village 1 m. N.... In Kingsbury is an annual court-baron held, wherein lord's rents are paid, presentments are made, and a constable, tythingman, and hayward, are appointed, for the year ensuing... Number of actual voters, 9, nominally 114. The church has a square tower, 6 bells, a clock, and chimes; one dissenting meeting-house, and upwards of 1000 inhabitants. The manufactures are dowlas, tick, white baize, linsey, stockings, and shoes. No market, but is supposed to have had one formerly. Fairs, 5 June, and 23 Oct., for cattle and toys. The post is despatched to Sherborne every day at 1 o'clock, and one arrives from thence at the same hour. Near it, on the left, is the seat of William Coles Medlecot, esq."〔Oulton, W. C. (1805) ''The Traveller's Guide; or, English Itinerary'', Vol II, pp 272-273. Ivy-Lane, London: James Cundee.〕 Under the Reform Act 1832, the town lost its status as a Parliamentary constituency, due to the gerrymandering activities of both parties in preceding elections. In April 1873 a local Shepherd, William Osmond was victimised and sent to jail with six months hard Labour for organising agricultural labourers in the area (inspired by George Mitchell, Somerset leader of the National Agricultural Labourers Union). On his release in January 1874 over 2,000 supporters marched through Milborne Port in his support. The farmer Charles Bugg, who victimised Osmond, died it is said of "shame" in January 1874 (Source: One from the Plough — George Mitchell) The village was a thriving leather and leather glove manufacturing area with the last factory closing in 1970. Ven House with its orangery, entrance gateway, pavilions, terrace, stabling & other outbuildings was built in 1730 by Richard Grange and Decimus Burton. It is a grade I listed building. 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「Milborne Port」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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