Curry Rivel, Somerset - Parish Church - art postcard c.1980s

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Curry Rivel is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Somerton and 10 miles (16.1 km) east of Taunton in the South Somerset district. The parish has a population of 2,148.^[1] The parish includes the hamlet of Burton Pynsent.

The site of a Roman house has been discovered south of Fairview House. The site is on the Heritage at Risk register due to ploughing.^[2][3]

The unusual name Curry Rivel, comes from the Celtic word crwy, meaning boundary and Rivel from its 12th century landlord Sir Richard Revel.^[4]

In 1237 the king granted Henry de l'Orti a licence to empark his woods in Curry Rivel separating it from the control of the foresters of Castle Neroche.^[5]

Curry Rivel was part of the hundred of Abdick and Bulstone.^[6][7]

Earnshill House was built in 1725 by John Strachan for Henry Combe, a prominent Bristol merchant.^[8]

Burton Pynsent House was built around 1756 for William Pitt, after he inherited the estate from Sir William Pynsent.^[9] It formed part of a wing on a larger earlier house, that was demolished around 1805. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.^[10] The grounds were laid out in the mid 18th century by Lancelot Brown and William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and include early 20th century formal gardens designed by Harold Peto.^[11] The Chatham Vase is a stone sculpture commissioned as a memorial to William Pitt the Elder by his wife, Hester, Countess of Chatham. It was originally erected at their house in Burton Pynsent, in 1781, and moved to the grounds of Chevening House in 1934, where it currently resides.

The 140 feet (43 m) Pynsent Column (also known as the Curry Rivel Column, Burton Pynsent Monument, Pynsent Steeple or Cider Monument)^[12] stands on Troy Hill, a spur of high ground about 700 m north-east of the house. It was designed in the 18th century by Capability Brown for William Pitt.^[4][13] It was restored in the 1990s by the John Paul Getty Trust and English Heritage.^[12]

Midelney Place is a Victorian architecture country house, completed in 1866. GradeII listed and privately owned, it is set in 26 acres (11 ha) of landscaped grounds.^[14]