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49-769: Monksilver is a village 3 miles (5 km) west of the town of Williton in Somerset , England, on the eastern flank of the Brendon Hills and the border of the Exmoor National Park . The Coleridge Way footpath passes through the village. The name of the village means monk's wood . In the Domesday Book it was simply Selvre , from the Latin silva for a wood, although it has also been suggested that Sulfhere , in AD 897, referred to

98-474: A local style of architecture popular in Northeast England in the early to mid 17th century. Historians often classify this architecture as a subtype of colonial American architecture, called First Period architecture, however there is an enormous amount of overlap between the architecture of the commoner class in early 17th century England and colonial America architecture, where some of the key features of

147-542: A parish separate from Watchet. The full details of the Church are recorded in Harry Armstrong's book The Parish of St Peter Williton published privately in 1982 and printed by Langley Print of Taunton. Williton also has a Methodist Chapel. There is a recreation ground with a children's area. A new community hall (Williton Pavilion) has now been built after many years of fund raising and a National Lottery grant. The project

196-608: A three-tier education system. St Peters Church of England First School was opened on its present site in Doniford Road in 1996. It has five classes of mixed ability. There is a fairly large middle school — Danesfield Church of England — which caters for children between 9 and 13. Older students generally travel to the West Somerset College in Minehead. Danesfield is also the centre for community education classes. There

245-483: A voluntary car service called WHEELs for those without transport for shopping, visits to the doctor etc. In the 2001 census Williton parish had 1,163 male and 1,411 female residents living in 1,103 households, with 27% being over 65 years. Of all residents, 62% described their health as good. Williton has a regular monthly newsletter, delivered free to all homes in the village, called the Williton Window . The slogan

294-860: Is 'Your church and community magazine'. An information pack is available to newcomers through Williton Window . A book showing Williton as it used to be is The Book of Williton . An information leaflet on West Somerset organisations is available from the West Somerset Free Press . Chidgey, Joyce; Chidgey, Maurice. (2007). The Book of Watchet and Williton Revisited . Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove Publishing. ISBN   1-84114-628-5 . Jacobean architecture Courtiers continued to build large prodigy houses , even though James spent less time on summer progresses around his realm than Elizabeth had. The influence of Flemish and German Northern Mannerism increased, now often executed by recruited craftsmen and artists, rather than obtained from books as in

343-607: Is a Somerset County library in Killick Way (closed Tuesdays). The date of the origin of St Peter's Church in Bridge Street is uncertain but it is believed that God has been worshiped on the site for more than 1000 years. The names of the Priests serving the Church and the parish can be traced back go the 13th century. The status of the Church changed dramatically in 1170 when The Lord of the manor , Sir Reginald Fitzurse , became one of

392-474: Is a weekly Country Market every Friday. A supermarket was proposed by a local businessman but there is large opposition. There is also a riding school located on Roughmore industrial estate open to anyone who wants to learn the equestrian arts. There are various Martial arts clubs including Judo, Ju-Jitsu, and Karate. The Bowmen of Danesfied a local West Somerset Archery club shoot at Danesfield School. They are fully inclusive with archers of all abilities from

441-474: Is an example of the later extension of the Elizabethan prodigy house , with turreted Tudor-style wings at each end with their mullioned windows but the two wings linked by an Italianate Renaissance facade. This central facade, originally an open loggia , has been attributed to Inigo Jones himself; however, the central porch carries a heavier quasi-gatehouse emphasis, so the attribution is probably false. Inside

490-576: Is in Edward's charter to the priory at Taunton , in which the prior and monks are enjoined to provide board and lodging for a single night, when the king was progressing, with dogs and falcons and their keepers, "ad Curig vel Willittun", "to Curry or else Williton". In the Domesday Survey Williton continued to form a royal estate, with Carhampton and Cannington . In the Middle Ages the village

539-743: Is not far away. The village lies on the route of the Macmillan Way West and Celtic Way Exmoor Option. There is a police station in Priest Street and both a hospital and fire station off North Street. The Medical Centre at the end of Killick Way has a doctors surgery and pharmacy. Williton Hospital, off North Street, is a part of the Somerset Coast Primary Care Trust but does not have a casualty department. The nearest dentists are in Williton or Minehead. The West Somerset area uses

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588-603: Is on the West Somerset Railway line. Doniford Halt on the same line serves the nearby Haven Holiday centre. Williton is twinned with Neung-sur-Beuvron in the Loir-et-Cher département of France . Until 1902 Williton was part of the ancient parish of Saint Decuman , which included also the town of Watchet. The parish of St Decuman was part of the Williton and Freemanners Hundred . Within Williton parish, to

637-674: Is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education , social services , libraries , main roads, public transport , policing and fire services , trading standards , waste disposal and strategic planning. The village lies within the Tiverton and Minehead county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . The constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by

686-545: The Coleridge Way and Samaritans Way South West . [REDACTED] Media related to Monksilver at Wikimedia Commons Williton Williton is a large village and civil parish in Somerset , England, at the junction of the A39 , A358 and B3191 roads, on the coast 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Watchet between Minehead , Bridgwater and Taunton in the now-defunct Somerset West and Taunton district. Williton station

735-573: The House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Williton is a good centre for visiting the Quantock Hills , the Brendons and Exmoor as well as the coast at Minehead , Dunster , Blue Anchor and Watchet , which are on the West Somerset Coast Path . Accommodation may be obtained in

784-526: The first past the post system of election. The parish church, dedicated to All Saints, has a square tower containing five bells. Inside is an Easter sepulchre . The pulpit is 16th-century, the screen is Jacobean and the lectern is possibly older. The wagon roof is thought to be 13th-century and an alms box by the door is from 1634. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building . In 1583 Sir Francis Drake married his second wife Elizabeth Sydenham, of nearby Combe Sydenham in

833-470: The non-metropolitan district of Somerset West and Taunton , which was established on 1 April 2019. Before that it was in the district of West Somerset , which had its headquarters in the village, and was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 , and part of Williton Rural District before that. It is also part of the Tiverton and Minehead county constituency represented in

882-408: The 16th and 17th centuries it was a centre for cloth making and field names such as "Rack", at nearby Woodford , suggest this activity. The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with

931-450: The Elizabethan windows were relocated and reused in the south wall. The church fell into a state if disrepair and in 1856 suffered a rather over enthusiastic restoration under the architect Charles Edmund Giles . The Priest responsible for the big restoration of 1856/59, Samuel Heathcote (at the Church 1854 to 1906), was appointed Perpetual Curate but was signing the registers as Vicar from 21 November 1889 showing that Williton had become

980-689: The Jacobean era often outlived James I and VI owing to less contact between the American colonists and the fashions of England. When the Puritans arrived in the winter of 1620 in New England, there was very little time to waste owing to the bitterly cold weather and the fact that many of the occupants of the ship that brought them, the Mayflower , were very ill and needed to get into housing before circumstances could allow

1029-461: The New World, the men and women that built the homes and buildings that formed the infrastructure of these towns and the others that followed over the coming century often built edifices that were consistent with Jacobean vernacular architecture in the portion of England that they originated from: for example, the clapboard common to houses in New England and later Nova Scotia to this day are derived from

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1078-598: The Willet" (river); the Willet is a brook that rises at Willet, flows north through the hamlet of Stream, and close to the former manor house of Williton, then it joins the Doniford Brook north-east of Williton. Both watercourses seem to have been known as the Willet in the 12th century. "Willet" may well be a British name. In the time of Edward the Elder the manor at Wiilitun was a royal hunting estate; its only pre-Conquest mention

1127-671: The author deemed it advisable to publish a letter from a canon of the Church, stating that there was nothing in his architectural designs that was contrary to religion. It is to publications of this kind that Jacobean architecture owes the perversion of its forms and the introduction of strap work and pierced crestings, which appear for the first time at Wollaton Hall (1580); at Bramshill House , Hampshire (1607–1612), and in Holland House , Kensington (1624), it receives its fullest development. Hatfield House , built in its entirety by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury , between 1607 and 1611,

1176-400: The chapel. The church at Williton thus became very much a daughter Church of Watchet and became known as a Chapel of Ease . The current building is mostly from the 16th century and is now a Grade II* listed building . Further work was undertaken in the 17th century when the Church was known as All Saints. Further work was done from time to time and in 1810 a south extension was built though

1225-459: The commencement of Wollaton Hall , a copybook of the orders was brought out in Antwerp by Hans Vredeman de Vries . Although nominally based on the description of the orders by Vitruvius , the author indulged freely not only in his rendering of them, but in suggestions of his own, showing how the orders might be employed in various buildings. Those suggestions were of a most decadent type, so that even

1274-400: The complete novice to competition archers. They run regular beginners course for those wishing to get into the sport of Archery. Buses run to Taunton and Minehead for which timetables are available from the post office. There are also buses to nearby supermarkets. Williton railway station is on the preserved West Somerset Railway , which operates on most days through the year. There is

1323-414: The council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with

1372-462: The diseases on board to spread further. Those that were still able bodied had to act quickly and as a result the first buildings of New England most resembled the wattle and daub cottages of the common people back home, especially of places like East Anglia and Devonshire , with the thatched roofs that remained common in England until the 1660s differing only in that the main material chosen for thatching

1421-494: The district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council. All other services and administrative functions are the responsibility of Somerset Council , a unitary authority established in April 2023. The village previously fell within

1470-405: The general lines of Elizabethan design remained, there was a more consistent and unified application of formal design, both in plan and elevation. Much use was made of columns and pilasters , round-arch arcades , and flat roofs with openwork parapets . These and other classical elements appeared in a free and fanciful vernacular rather than with any true classical purity. With them were mixed

1519-869: The house, the elaborately carved staircase demonstrates the Renaissance influence on English ornament. Other Jacobean buildings of note are Crewe Hall , Cheshire ; Knole House , near Sevenoaks in Kent ; Charlton House in Charlton, London ; Holland House by John Thorpe ; Plas Teg near Pontblyddyn , between Wrexham and Mold in Wales; Bank Hall in Bretherton; Castle Bromwich Hall near Solihull; Lilford Hall in Northamptonshire and Chastleton House in Oxfordshire. Although

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1568-493: The local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also

1617-583: The mid nineteenth and the mid twentieth century in Duxbury, Massachusetts, a town across the harbor from Plymouth, also settled by the original Pilgrim Fathers, and inhabited just eight years later, reveal that the original homes were very narrow and small, averaging approximately forty feet long by fifteen feet wide. This concurs with the dimensions of houses that would have been found amongst the English commoner classes (specifically yeoman and small farmers) as evidenced by

1666-645: The murderers of St Thomas a Becket. Following the murder the ownership of the manor passed to Reginald's brother Robert and the Knights Templar . The historian Collinson records (1792) that Robert rebuilt the chapel of Williton implying that the Saxon chapel was in ruins. The Liber Albus manuscripts in Wells Cathedral library show Robert gave to the Church of St Decuman, Watchet some important property and certain rights in

1715-403: The parish of Stogumber , at the church. The village has a village hall (shared with the parishes of Nettlecombe and Elworthy ), a telephone box and a newspaper hut. The village pub, The Notley Arms, serves locally sourced food. The village is served twice a week with a bus service connecting it to Taunton . The mobile library visits every three weeks. The village lies on the route of both

1764-479: The previous reign. There continued to be very little building of new churches, although there was a considerable amount of modifications to old ones and a great deal of secular building. The reign of James VI of Scotland (also James I of England from 1603 to 1625), a disciple of the new scholarship, saw the first decisive adoption of Renaissance motifs in a free form communicated to England through German and Flemish carvers rather than directly from Italy . Although

1813-469: The prime activity in the parish while Williton village became a local government and communal centre. Its importance increased with the creation of new toll roads that today are the main roads to the village. It is an important local shopping area and from 1894 has been an administration centre. It had a workhouse for the district, which became the local hospital until 1990 but has now been converted into housing. Doniford House has late medieval origins and

1862-560: The prismatic rustications and ornamental detail of scrolls, straps , and lozenges also characteristic of Elizabethan design. The style influenced furniture design and other decorative arts . Reproductions of the Classical orders had already found their way into English architecture during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I , frequently based upon John Shute 's The First and Chief Grounds of Architecture , published in 1563, with two other editions in 1579 and 1584. In 1577, three years before

1911-634: The responsibility of the council. The village falls within the non-metropolitan district of Somerset West and Taunton , which was established on 1 April 2019. It was previously in the district of West Somerset , which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 , and part of Williton Rural District before that. The district council is responsible for local planning and building control , local roads, council housing , environmental health , markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling , cemeteries and crematoria , leisure services, parks, and tourism . Somerset County Council

1960-634: The sea. Little of the camp buildings survive and it is now the site of a holiday park. Doniford bay has Jurassic fossils in the cliffs . Charmouth fossils collects a number of their fossils from Doniford . The largest Ichthyosaurus fossil discovered was found in Doniford Bay and taken to a museum in Hanover . When it was examined in 2017 it was revealed as the largest specimen described. The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover

2009-481: The silvery stream below the village. In 1113 the manor was given by Robert de Chandos to endow Goldcliff Priory , which he had just established near Newport in Monmouthshire . In 1441 it passed, with the priory, to Tewkesbury Abbey and then in 1474 to the canons of Windsor . In the 14th century the name changed to "Monksilver". The parish of Monksilver was part of the Williton and Freemanners Hundred . In

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2058-409: The south-west, is Orchard Wyndham House, a Grade I listed building , which was the centre of an estate called "Orchard". Paleolithic , mesolithic and neolithic flints have been found at Doniford to the north-east of Williton while three Bronze Age barrows survive at Battlegore Burial Chamber , just north of the centre of Williton. The name of Williton is Anglo-Saxon and means "estate on

2107-622: The surviving tax rolls of the Jacobean era. Examples of original Jacobean architecture in the Americas include Drax Hall Great House and St. Nicholas Abbey , both located in Barbados , and Bacon's Castle in Surry County, Virginia . In the 19th century, the Jacobean Gothic or " Jacobethan " style was briefly popular. Excellent examples are Coxe Hall, Williams Hall, and Medbury Hall, which define

2156-574: The term is generally employed of the style which prevailed in England during the first quarter of the 17th century, its peculiar decadent detail will be found nearly twenty years earlier at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham , and in Oxford and Cambridge examples exist up to 1660, notwithstanding the introduction of the purer Italian style by Inigo Jones in 1619 at Whitehall . In 1607 and 1620, England founded her first successful colonies: Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts . As with other settlers in

2205-532: The village. There are facilities nearby for camping , sailing and wind-surfing as well as the usual beach activities. On the nearby cliffs fossils are exposed. There is easy access to the West Somerset Railway , which is the longest private railway in the country, and is run by a trust. Places of interest are the Bakelite Museum and the Tropiquaria Zoo at the old radio station. Halsway Folk Music Centre

2254-516: Was divided into the manors of Williton Fulford and Williton Hadley. An estate known as Williton Templar belonged to the Knights Templar , and was later known as Williton Hospital and Williton Regis. Originally the centre of the village appears to have been near the church but over time it has migrated to the north-east. Much of the centre of Williton dates from the later 19th century but Long Street includes several 17th-century houses, as do Bridge, Priest, Robert and Shutgate Streets. Agriculture has been

2303-408: Was enlarged circa 1600. Beside the beach is an early 19th-century lime kiln which is thought to have been in operation until the 1930s. Before World War II at a site between Watchet and Doniford a gunnery range was established for various army units to practice anti-aircraft gunnery. Unmanned target aircraft were towed by planes from RAF Weston Zoyland and later were fired from catapults over

2352-413: Was grass found in the local salt marshes. Most of these would have been hall and parlor dwellings with a simple central chimney, a feature of British architecture since the earlier Elizabethan era, a timber frame, a squat lower floor and an upper floor with bare beams and a space to be used for storage. Measurements of the archaeological remains of houses owned by Myles Standish and John Alden done in

2401-460: Was opposed by a small part of the local community, which is mostly people who live nearby and do not want the younger members of the community having more activities. There are many social activities within Williton including the social club which needs updating, bowling club, gardening club, rifle club , Women's Institute , Good Neighbours Club, British Legion and Young Farmers . The Scout Association and Girlguiding UK meet regularly. There

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