Goathurst

Goathurst

Infobox UK place
country = England
latitude = 51.1049
longitude = -3.0654
official_name = Goathurst
population =
shire_district = Sedgemoor
shire_county = Somerset
region = South West England
constituency_westminster = Bridgwater
post_town = BRIDGWATER
postcode_district = TA5
Postcode_area = TA
dial_code = 01278
os_grid_reference = ST255345

Goathurst is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset, around 3 miles from the town of Bridgwater. The parish includes the hamlet of Andersfield.

Originally part of the Royal Forest of North Petherton, its first squire owned [http://www.quantockonline.co.uk/master.html?http://www.quantockonline.co.uk/quantocks/villages/goathurst/goathurst1.html] Goathurst's St Edward's church ( a grade I listed building [cite web | title=Church of St. Edward King and Martyr | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=2&id=269292 | accessdate=2006-11-04] ) includes a 19th century monument to three-year-old Isabella Kemeys, which shows the child lying on a pillow holding a broken flower [http://www.timetravel-britain.com/columns/churches/churches01.shtml]

It was the location of a 300 person prisoner of war camp during World War II, initially housing Italian prisoners from the Western Desert Campaign, and later German prisoners following the Battle of Normandy.

References

ee also

*Halswell House
*Robin Hood's Hut

External links

*Location: coord|51.10|N|03.07|W|region:GB ST2534
* [http://www.quantockonline.co.uk/quantocks/villages/goathurst/goathurst1.html Entry at Quantock online]
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18531 British History online] comprehensive background on Goathurst and Haswell House
* [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10432248 Vision of Britain entry] lots of statistics
* [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Goathurst/index.html Entry at GeniUK]
* [http://www.gmilne.demon.co.uk/tree.htm History of the Poulett family]
* [http://www.archivesnetworkwales.info/cgi-bin/anw/fulldesc_nofr?inst_id=36&coll_id=1179&expand= Archives Wales] information on the Kemeys-Tynte family
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/02/a3936602.shtml John Salvatore Zuncheddu story of the PoW camp]
* [http://www.sedgemoor.gov.uk/localplan/maps/i28.htm Map of Goathurst] from Sedgemoor online


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