Kingweston, Somerset
Photographed by James Derheim in May, 2017 while with a genealogist who had ancestry in this region.
Kingweston is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on Combe Hill, 3 miles (4.8 km) north east of Somerton. The village has a population of 128.[1]
History
The village’s name was Chinwardestune in the Domesday Book of 1086. There is evidence of Romano-British occupation in Copley Wood.[2]
After the Norman Conquest the manor was given to Eustance, Count of Bologne and held by his family until a descendant gave it to Bermondsey Abbey in 1114, who held the manor until the Dissolution of the monasteries. It then passed to the Smyth family of Long Ashton until it was bought in 1740 by Caleb Dickinson.
