Template:Wp-Stanton Drew

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Stanton Drew is a small village and civil parish within the affluent Chew Valley in Somerset, England, situated north of the Mendip Hills, south of Bristol in the Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority.

Just outside the village are the prehistoric Stanton Drew stone circles. The largest of these, the Great Circle, is a henge monument and the second largest stone circle in Britain, after Avebury. The stone circle is 113 m in diameter and probably consisted of 30 stones, of which 27 survive today.

The village also has a range of listed buildings, dating from the 13th to 15th centuries, including the church of St Mary the Virgin, the Round House (Old Toll House) and various farmhouses.

The parish of Stanton Drew, which includes the hamlets of Stanton Wick, and Honey Gaston has a population of 787.^[1] Until 1947 the parish also included Belluton and part of Pensford. It includes a primary school, pubs (the Druids Arms and the Carpenters Arms at Stanton Wick), church and village hall, which is the venue for a mother and toddler group and preschool as well as various village activities. The area around the village has several dairy and arable farms on neutral to acid red loamy soils with slowly permeable subsoils. It is also a dormitory village for people working in Bath and Bristol.