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Priston

Priston
Gray building with arched windows. Square tower surmounted by a weather vane. Gravestones and crosses in grass in the foreground separated from the road by a stone wall.
Church of St Luke and St Andrew, Priston
Priston is located in Somerset
Priston
Priston
Priston shown within Somerset
Population 232 
OS grid reference ST694605
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BATH
Police Avon and Somerset
Fire Avon
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
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UK
England
Somerset
51°20′36″N 2°26′24″W / 51.3432°N 2.4399°W / 51.3432; -2.4399Coordinates: 51°20′36″N 2°26′24″W / 51.3432°N 2.4399°W / 51.3432; -2.4399

Priston is a civil parish and village 4 miles (6 km) south west of Bath in Bath and North East Somerset, which is within the English ceremonial county of Somerset. The parish includes the hamlet of Wilmington.

A walled field boundary, which marks the boundary between the manor of Priston village and the former manor of Wilmington hamlet contains megaliths, indicating it may have been a boundary in pre-historic times.

Priston is the site of a Roman villa dating from about 100 AD. A coffin from this site was discovered in 1917.

Around 925 the manor of Priston was given by king Æthelstan to Bath Abbey.

The parish of Priston was part of the Keynsham Hundred,

The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as including the presence of a church, possibly wooden; however the nave of the Church of St Luke and St Andrew was added in the 12th century, and the church has a tower dating from the 15th century. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. It is crowned with a disproportionately large weather vane given as a gift by the lord of the manor in 1813.

The manor was held by the Prior of Bath Abbey until the dissolution of the monasteries passing into the hands of the laity. From the 18th century to 20th centuries it was held by the Jenkins family.


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