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Westfield is a settlement lying on the Fosse Way between Radstock and Midsomer Norton in Somerset, England. In 2011 it was raised to the status of a civil parish. It is south-west of Bath, north-east of Wells, north-west of Frome, and south-east of Bristol. Its geographical location on the A367 from Bath has resulted in it being an important base for services for the population centres of the old Somerset Coalfield area, for which it hosts the police and fire stations, the local further education college. For many years it hosted the annual winter carnival, until in 2014 the carnival route was changed to include Midsomer Norton, Radstock and Westfield. ==History== The Fosse Way Roman road originally ran through this area, between what is now Radstock and Midsomer Norton. Westfield is not mentioned in the Domesday Book.〔http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/places.html〕 By the early nineteenth century Westfield still consisted mostly of rural land and coal mining works, with little residential development. It was with the building of large numbers of terraced miners' cottages along the Fosse Way in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that the area developed into a more populous area in its own right, with Westfield starting to appear on maps 〔http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/index.jsp?layer=europe&xMin=3162711.68299&yMin=2792312.07826&xMax=3165511.68299&yMax=2795112.07826〕 and being recognized as a settlement.〔'Norton-Radstock' in ''Encyclopaedia Britannica: a new survey of universal knowledge'' (Volume 16, 1961), p. 543: "NORTON-RADSTOCK, an urban district (1933) comprising Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Westfield, Writhlington, Haydon and Clandown".〕 Modern housing estates were developed on land on both sides of the Fosse Way in the 1970s.〔http://www.westfield-pc.gov.uk/Core/Westfield-Parish-Council/Pages/Default.aspx〕 For many years, Westfield hosted the Midsomer Norton carnival every November, the only unofficial carnival on the Somerset circuit. The route was moved to Westfield when traffic improvements to Midsomer Norton High Street made the original route prohibitive for the large vehicles. However, in 2014, a new route was established travelling through Midsomer Norton, Radstock and Westfield. Westfield is the site of the 2011 Somerset hot air balloon crash in which two hot-air balloonists who had been attempting to make a high-altitude ascent were killed when their balloon crashed at the Pratten's Bowls Club. 〔(Two killed in hot air balloon crash in Somerset ), ''BBC News'', 1 January 2011〕 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「Westfield, Somerset」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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