Thorne St Margaret

Thorne St Margaret

Bazeley Farmhouse

Limekiln near Piley Copse
Thorne St Margaret
Thorne St Margaret shown within Somerset
OS grid reference ST098210
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town WELLINGTON
Postcode district TA21
Dialling code 01823
Police Avon and Somerset
Fire Devon and Somerset
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament

Thorne St Margaret is a village in the civil parish of Wellington Without in the Taunton Deane district of Somerset, England. It is situated 3 miles west of Wellington, between the river Tone and the Bristol and Exeter railway.[1] The parish includes Holywell Lake which is one of the Thankful Villages which lost no men in World War I.[2]

The parish of Thorne St Margaret was part of the Milverton Hundred.[3]

The Church of St Margaret serves a parish population of about 50. The church has a 15th-century tower with three bells. The rest of the church was rebuilt in 1865, with a west window, with stained glass, added in 1907. The church is built of hard red sandstone and has a baptismal font dating to Saxon times.[4] It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.[5]

  1. ↑ "Thorne St Margaret". GenUK. Retrieved 2008-02-07.
  2. ↑ "Holywell Lake". Thankful villages. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  3. ↑ "Somerset Hundreds". GENUKI. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "Church of St Margaret website". Wellington Team Churches. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
  5. ↑ "Church of St Margaret". Images of England. Retrieved 2008-02-07.

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