Clandown

infobox UK place
country= England
latitude= 51.297748
longitude= -2.453183
official_name= Clandown
population=
civil_parish= Norton Radstock
unitary_england= Bath and North East Somerset
lieutenancy_england= Somerset
region= South West England
constituency_westminster= Wansdyke
post_town= RADSTOCK
postcode_district= BA3
postcode_area= BA
dial_code= 01761
os_grid_reference= ST685555.

It was formerly a mining village, on the Somerset coalfield but the last pits in the area closed in the late 1960s. Welsh miners originally established the village and there are 3 mineshafts whose locations are known, although they were not all worked at the same time.

Clandown's Church of the Holy Trinity is a small church in quasi-perpendicular style, dating from 1847-49. It was built for the Rev. Charles Otway Mayne of Midsomer-Norton by the architect G. P. Manners (Bath City Architect). It is a grade II listed building. [cite web | title=Church of the Holy Trinity | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=31966 | accessdate=2006-12-09] The church was converted to apartments some years ago.

As well as the church, there were 2 chapels and 3 public houses. One of the chapels has been demolished and the other has been converted to apartments. 2 pubs have been demolished. A school was opened in 1861 and closed in 2006. there having been a dame school before this.

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