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Thorne St Margaret
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Thorne St Margaret
Location within Somerset
OS grid reference ST098210
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town WELLINGTON
Postcode district TA21
Dialling code 01823
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50°58′54″N3°17′10″W / 50.9818°N 3.2861°W / 50.9818; -3.2861

Thorne St Margaret is a village in the civil parish of Wellington Without in the Taunton Deane district of Somerset, England. It is situated 3 miles west of Wellington, between the river Tone and the Bristol and Exeter railway. [1] The village of Holywell Lake is nearby, which is one of the Thankful Villages which lost no men in World War I. [2]

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The parish of Thorne St Margaret was part of the Milverton Hundred. [3]

The Church of St Margaret serves a parish population of about 50. The church has a 15th-century tower with three bells. The rest of the church was rebuilt in 1865, with a west window, with stained glass, added in 1907. The church is built of hard red sandstone and has a baptismal font dating to Saxon times. [4] It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. [5]

Civil parish

In 1961 the parish had a population of 82. [6] On 1 April 1986 the parish was abolished. [7]

  1. ↑ "Thorne St Margaret". GenUK. Retrieved 7 February 2008.
  2. ↑ "Holywell Lake". Thankful villages. Retrieved 13 December 2008.
  3. ↑ "Somerset Hundreds". GENUKI. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "Church of St Margaret website". Wellington Team Churches. Retrieved 21 November 2010.
  5. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St Margaret (1180128)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 7 February 2008.
  6. ↑ "Population statistics Thorne St Margaret Ch/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time . Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  7. ↑ "Taunton Deane Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 3 August 2023.

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