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Winsford is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, located about north-west of Dulverton. It is within the borders of the Exmoor National Park and around south-west of the coastal town of Minehead. The village has one hotel, The Royal Oak dating to before the start of the 16th century, and one shop and post office. There is also a tea garden and a service station, which does not serve fuel for motor vehicles. The village is on the route of the Samaritans Way South West and is located within the Exmoor National Park, to the east of the village is the hamlet of West Howetown. ==History== Winsford Hill is the location of the Wambarrows, a number of bronze age burial sites, and Road Castle an Iron Age bank and ditch approximately west from the village. The ditch is almost square in plan with rounded corners and covers an area of approximately .〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=35715 )〕 The Caratacus Stone, a standing stone believed to have been erected by pagan inhabitants of the village,〔 possibly as a religious memorial, bearing the inscription ''CARAACI NEPUS'' (kinsman of Caratacus) possibly from the 5th century, and first documented in 1219. The village appears in the Domesday Book of 1085, which lists the presence of 34 smallholders, 41 villagers, 52 sheep and 9 slaves, the whole area being capable of supporting 64 ploughs, despite of it being woodland.〔 The parish of Winsford was part of the Williton and Freemanners Hundred.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 Farms in the village include Nethercote, Staddon, Bradley, Halse, Upcott and Knaplock, all of which have retained their original names since tax records from 1327, during the reign of King Edward III.〔 In the 17th century, Tom Faggus, a highwayman and a gentleman, was said to have held up travellers near the inn in Winsford.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Exmoor National Park )〕 On 20 August 1907 the first registered sale and show of the Exmoor Horn Sheep Breeders' Society, which was founded a year earlier, was held in the village, and "1,200 ewes were sold by auction, at an average price per head of 42 shillings".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of the breed )〕 In 1998 the Exmoor Community Computer Centre is a charitable trust took over the redundant building of the Winsford First School and established a community facility for social welfare and recreation. This later became dormant and a grant was obtained for a community facilitator to help restart the centre and re-establishing the venue as a community resource. Computer courses have also been run at Porlock and Sampford Brett. In 2002 the body of an apparent murder victim was found on Winsford Hill. Despite extensive investigations it has yet to be identified. 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「Winsford, Somerset」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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