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Sampford Arundel is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is situated near Wellington and south west of Taunton in the Taunton Deane district. The village has a population of 268.〔 The parish, which lies at the western end of the Blackdown Hills, includes the hamlets of Bagley Green, Sampford Moor, White Ball and Beam Bridge where a temporary terminus of the Bristol and Exeter Railway was established in 1843 until the line was completed to Exeter in 1844. There is a Junior School, an interesting church and an old telephone box. There are no shops and few street lamps. There is a cricket club and the main attraction for visitors is the countryside. ==History== The first part of the name 'Sampford' means ''sandy ford'' and the second part 'Arundel' commemorates Roger Arundel who was granted the manor by the time of the Domesday Book of 1086, and to differentiate the village from Sampford Brett. The parish of Sampford Arundel was part of the Milverton Hundred,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 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「Sampford Arundel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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