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Simonsbath
Simonsbath (pronounced "Simmonsbath", with short i) is a small village high on Exmoor in the English county of Somerset. It is the principal settlement in the Exmoor civil parish, which is the largest and most sparsely populated civil parish on Exmoor, covering nearly but with a population, at the time of the 2001 census, of 203 in 78 households,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Exmoor parish )〕 reducing to 156 at the 2011 Census.
The River Exe rises from a valley to the north, and the River Barle runs through the village and is crossed by a triple-arched medieval bridge that was extensively repaired after floods in 1952.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕
The settlement lies on the route of the Two Moors Way and close to the Macmillan Way West.
== Toponymy ==
The ''-bath'' element in this place-name, not recorded before 1791,〔C. J. Battersby, reviewing Moorman's essay "English place-names and Teutonic sagas" in Oliver Elton, ed. ''Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association.'' vol. 5, in ''The Modern Language Review '' 11.2 (April 1916: 222-230) p. 229f; Moorman had attempted unsuccessfully to identify ''Simon'' with Sigemund.〕 is easily accounted for: the Old English ''bæth'' signified "water, a pool". The identity of ''Simon'' is less sure. R. J. King pointed out that the name is frequently met with in the West of England, "especially in connection with old boundary lines".〔Richard Nicholls Worth, ''Tourist's Guide to North Devon and the Exmoor district'' 1879:94.〕 Thomas Westcote, in his ''View of Devonshire in 1630'', preserved a local tradition that "Simon" was a great hunter and Robin Hood-like figure who had his stronghold at Symonsburrow, at the highest point of the Blackdown Hills, a barrow that pre-dates even a medieval legend associated with it.
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