Place:Stawell, Somerset, England

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NameStawell
TypeChapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates51.1403°N 2.905°W
Located inSomerset, England
See alsoMoorlinch, Somerset, Englandancient parish of which it was a chapelry
Whitley Hundred, Somerset, Englandhundred in which it was located
Bridgwater Rural, Somerset, Englandrural district 1894-1974
Sedgemoor District, Somerset, Englandnon-metropolitan district covering the area since 1974
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Stawell (#35 on map) is a civil parish and a village in Somerset, England 4.5 miles (7 km) northeast of Bridgwater, and 2 miles (3 km) northwest of Moorlinch (#24), in the Sedgemoor District.

The civil parish absorbed the parish of Sutton Mallet (#37) and the detached parts of the parishes of Chilton Polden (#11) and Cossington (#13) in 1933. This increased its area from 977 acres to 2,265. Its population in the UK census of 2011 was 386 (and 197 in 1931).

The Church of St Francis, Stawell, dates from the 13th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.

Sutton Mallet Church dates from 1829 on the site of an earlier church. It is Grade II listed. The church is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

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Governance

Stawell was originally a chapelry in the ancient parish of Moorlinch in the Whitley Hundred, one of the hundreds or early subdivisions of the county of Somerset. From 1894 until 1974 it was part of the Bridgwater Rural District.

In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, all urban and rural districts across England were abolished and counties were reorganized into metropolitan and non-metropolitan districts. Stawell joined the non-metropolitan Sedgemoor District which covers the north-central section of Somerset.

Research Tips

  • GENUKI page on Stawell.
  • An article on Stawell from the Victoria History of the Counties of EnglandHistory of the County of Somerset, produced by The Institute of Historical Research.
  • 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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