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Englishcombe is a village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset just outside Bath, England. The parish, which also includes the hamlets of Inglesbatch, Nailwell and Wilmington, has a population of 318.〔 ==History== A neolithic axe has been found in the parish, and Iron Age pottery was discovered during construction of Culverhay School. There is some evidence of two barrows. The south eastern boundary of the parish follows the route of the Fosse Way a Roman road that linked Exeter (''Isca Dumnoniorum'') in South West England to Lincoln (''Lindum Colonia'') in the East Midlands, via Ilchester (''Lindinis''), Bath (''Aquae Sulis''), Cirencester (''Corinium'') and Leicester (''Ratae Corieltauvorum''). The village lies on the route of the Wansdyke (from ''Woden's Dyke'') an early medieval or possibly defining an Roman boundary with a series of defensive linear earthworks, consisting of a ditch and a running embankment from the ditch spoil, with the ditching facing north. Its construction is attributed to the Saxons, probably in the late sixth century.〔Cyril and Aileen Fox, "Wandyke reconsidered", ''Archaeological Journal'' (1958)〕 The parish of Englishcombe was part of the Wellow Hundred.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 The Domesday Book of 1086 records that Englishcombe was held by Nigel de Gournay, who would have won his lands in Englishcombe, Twerton, Swainswick and Barrow Gurney by fighting for William I of England. His original home must have been Gournay, which was half-way between Dieppe and Paris. Thomas de Gournay was involved with the murder of Edward II at Berkeley Castle in 1327.〔Manco, J. (1995) ''The Parish of Englishcombe: A History'', pp. 2, 4.〕 The earthwork remains of the Gournay family castle, just north of the village of Englishcombe known as Culverhay Castle was built in the 12th century and is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/13.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fortifiedengland.com/Home/Categories/ViewItem/tabid/61/Default.aspx?IID=1405 )〕 The tithe barn attached to Rectory Farmhouse was built by Bath Abbey in the early 14th century.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/grant-aided-properties/englishcombe-tithe-barn-rectory-farmhouse-ba2-9du/ )〕 It was restored in the 1990s〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.englishcombe.net/tithebarn.htm )〕 and has been designated as a Grade II * listed building. Rectory Farmhouse itself was built onto the barn in the early to mid 17th century. The Manor of Inglescombe, as it was previously called, was acquired by the Duchy of Cornwall in 1421. Along with the Duchy's more recent acquisition of the neighbouring village of Newton St Loe in 1941 they form the Duchy's largest estate outside Dartmoor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Newton Park Estate )〕 The mining of Fuller's earth started in the parish in the 19th century but expanded around the time of World War I with pits in Middle Wood and Vernham wood. It continued until the 1960s when small underground springs made the extraction too expensive to continue. 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「Englishcombe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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