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Blagdon history
The village was called Blachedon in the 1086 Domesday Book. The name comes from the Old English bloec and dun meaning ‘the black or bleak down’
Romans
There was a Roman presence in Blagdon from about 49 AD until the end of the Roman occupation of Britain. Several Roman coins and fragments of Roman pottery have been found in the village.
Saxons
The parish was part of the Hundred of Winterstoke. It was also known as the Hundred-of-Winterstoke, and was known as The Hundred-Stoke. The parish is now the site of a museum of the same name.
Norman feudal barony
Blagdon is believed to have been the caput of the feudal barony held by Serlo de Burci. Serlo left no sons and his daughter Geva was his sole heiress. She married twice: firstly to “Martin” (died before 1086), to whom she bore a son and heir Robert FitzMartin. Robert gave St Andrews Church and other land from around the East End of the village to Stanley Abbey in Wiltshire.
The Blagdon Controversy
In 1795 Hannah More founded a Sunday School in Blagdon, in the building now called Hannah More House. She wrote to William Wilberforce, the anti-slavery campaigner, about her school. However, Mr Bere, the curate referred to in this letter, soon became implacably opposed to the school and after years of pressure it was forced to close.
Physical history
The shape of some of the existing fields suggest they are of medieval origin. There are several houses in the village dating from medieval times and earlier. The houses facing on to Bell Square in the West End date from the fourteenth century.
Blagdon in the twentieth century
In 1901 the Wrington Vale Light Railway reached Blagdon. It closed to passengers just 31 years later in 1932. Part of the line remained for freight only, but this closed in 1962.
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