Place:Queen Charlton, Somerset, England

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NameQueen Charlton
TypeChapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates51.3802°N 2.5065°W
Located inSomerset, England     ( - 1933)
See alsoKeynsham, Somerset, Englandancient parish of which it was a chapelry
Keynsham Hundred, Somerset, Englandhundred in which it was located
Keynsham Rural, Somerset, Englandrural district 1894-1933
Compton Dando, Somerset, Englandparish into which it was absorbed in 1933
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Queen Charlton (#11 on map) is now a small village within the civil parish of Compton Dando (#3), within the Unitary Authority of Bath and North East Somerset in Somerset, England. The nearest town is Keynsham, which lies approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of the village.

The village was originally simply "Charlton", recorded in 1291 as "Cherleton". It was an estate of Keynsham Abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, and the prefix was added when the estate was given by Henry VIII to Queen Catherine Parr, his sixth wife.

The Church of St Margaret dates from the 12th century. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. There is a late medieval cross on the village green.

Governance

Queen Charlton was first a chapelry of the parish church at Keynsham (stemming from its days as an estate of Keynsham Abbey). It became a civil parish in the Keynsham Hundred and in 1894 part of the Keynsham Rural District. When the rural district was abolished in 1933 it was absorbed into the neighbouring parish of Compton Dando.

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Research Tips

  • GENUKI page on Queen Charlton.
  • The Somerset Heritage Centre (incorporating what was formerly the Somerset Record Office and the Somerset Local Studies Library) can be found at its new location at Langford Mead in Taunton. It has an online search facility leading to pages of interest, including maps from the First and Second Ordnance Survey (select "Maps and Postcards" from the list at the left, then enter the parish in the search box).
    The Heritage Centre has an email address: archives@somerset.gov.uk.
  • Three maps on the A Vision of Britain through Time website illustrate the changes in political boundaries over the period 1830-1945. All have expanding scales and on the second and third this facility is sufficient that individual parishes can be inspected.
  • Somerset Hundreds as drawn in 1832. This map was prepared before The Great Reform Act of that year. Note the polling places and representation of the various parts of the county.
  • Somerset in 1900, an Ordnance Survey map showing rural districts, the boundaries of the larger towns, the smaller civil parishes of the time, and some hamlets and villages in each parish
  • Somerset in 1943, an Ordnance Survey map showing the rural districts after the changes to their structure in the 1930s
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