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Wiveliscombe () is a small town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated west of Taunton in the Taunton Deane district. The town has a population of 2,893.〔 The Square, fronted by several Listed structures, held the former market. The parish includes the nearby hamlet of Maundown. ==History== The Anglo-Saxon settlement, the ''combe'' or valley of a certain Wifele,〔(BBC: Domesday Reloaded: Wiveliscombe ).〕 was mentioned in the Domesday survey (1086), when it was quite large, consisting of twenty-seven households, with an annual value to the lord, the Bishop of Wells St Andrew, of £25.〔(Open Domesday: Wiveliscombe ).〕 During the Middle Ages the bishops maintained a residence here. Settlement in the neighborhood is of long standing. North west of the town are Clatworthy Camp an Iron age hill fort and Clatworthy Reservoir. Nearby is Elworthy Barrows an unfinished Iron Age hill fort rather than Bronze Age barrows.〔Barrow, "Hllforts and hilltops 1000BC - 1000AD" in Aston and Burrow, ''The Archaeology of Somerset'' (1982)〕 The Neolithic hillfort at King's Castle is east of the town. A rectangular enclosure south of Manor Farm is the remains of a Roman fort; in the 18th century its vestiges of fortifications and foundations identified Roman origin, and it was locally called "the Castle".〔John Collinson, ''The History and Antiquities of Somerset'' 1791 vol II, p. 488; Collinson notes that several Roman coins were discovered within the site in 1711.〕 In the 18th century a hoard of about 1600 Roman coins of third and fourth century dates was uncovered.〔Collinson 1791, p. 488.〕 The parish of Wiveliscombe was part of the Kilmersdon Hundred,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 The Town Hall was built in 1840 by Somerset surveyor Richard Carver for Lord Ashburton. It housed a fish market, a butchers’ market and a pig market with an assembly room above them. It is a Grade II listed building. It was bought by The Cooperative Society in 1929 and converted to shops, the hall being left unused. Plans have now been drawn up for the creation there of an Arts, Media, Cultural and Heritage Venue. The Abbotsfield cottages were built by businessman Lukey Collard in the 1870s; they became a Grade II listed building in 1975. In 2010 a new 10 Parishes Centre was announced which will provide a new community facility alongside the Children’s Centre being built at Croft Way. 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「Wiveliscombe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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