Crowcombe Court, Somerset - art postcard c.1970s

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  • Picture / Image:  Crowcombe Court [Somerset] art postcard by Jeanne Harrison
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Crowcombe is a village and civil parish under the Quantock Hills in Somerset, England, 5.5 miles (9 km) south east of Watchet, and 8 miles (13 km) from Taunton. The village has a population of 489.^[1]

The parish covers the hamlets of Crowcombe Heathfield, Flaxpool, Halsway, Lawford and Triscombe.^[2]

The village is on the route of the Samaritans Way South West.

he name Triscombe is believed to derive from the Old English words treows and cumb.^[3]

The first documentary evidence of the village is by Æthelwulf of Wessex in 854, where it was spelt 'Cerawicombe'.^[4] At that time the manor belonged to Glastonbury Abbey.^[5] Later Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, wife of Earl Godwin, gave it to the monks of Winchester to make amends for her husband's "treacherous abuses of divers monastic institutions".^[6]

The Domesday Book of 1086 lists the village as 'Crawcombe', which is believed to come from the Old English words craw and cumb.^[3] The parish of Crowcombe was part of the Williton and Freemanners Hundred.^[7]

The medieval cross of red sandstone is 170 metres (560 ft) north west of Holy Ghost Church. The octagonal shaft is 3 metres (9.8 ft) high, topped by a Greek cross added in the 19th century, standing on an octagonal base.^[8]

Crowcombe Heathfield railway station is two miles from the village on the West Somerset Railway, a heritage railway. A small part of the filming of The Beatles' first feature film, 'A Hard Day's Night', took place here.

Crowcombe Court in Crowcombe, Somerset, England is a large country house dating from 1724–39. It is Grade I listed.^[1]

It was built, in English regional baroque style,^[2] by Thomas Parker, for Thomas Carew,^[3] and finished by Nathaniel Ireson of Wincanton, after Carew found that Parker had taken old coins, found while demolishing the old house.^[4] Minor alterations were carried out by Edward Middleton Barry around 1870.^[1]

The house has amber coloured bricks complemented by Bath stone pilasters and frontispiece.^[5] The interior includes plasterwork by Grinling Gibbons.^[6] The house was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "the finest house of its date in Somerset south of the Bath area".^[7][8]

It has previously been used as a nursing home and today the Court is hired out for weddings and other functions.^[3]

The new owners of the house David and Kate Kenyon purchased the property in 2011. Kate is a direct descendant of James Morrison.

The gardens and parkland are listed, Grade II, on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.^[9]