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Goathurst

Village in Somerset, England

Field	Value
country	England
coordinates
official_name	Goathurst
population	193
population_ref	(2011)
unitary_england	Somerset Council
lieutenancy_england	Somerset
region	South West England
constituency_westminster	Bridgwater
post_town	BRIDGWATER
postcode_district	TA5
postcode_area	TA
dial_code	01278
os_grid_reference	ST255345
static_image	Halswell House, Goathurst - geograph.org.uk - 502366.jpg
static_image_width	250px
static_image_caption	Halswell House
static_image_2	[[File:Temple of Harmony, Goathurst, Somerset - geograph.org.uk - 920680.jpg	alt=Stone building with pillars, surrounded by grass.	250px]]
static_image_2_caption	Temple of Harmony

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 hamlets of Andersfield and Huntstile. The village is on the route of the Samaritans Way South West.

History

Goathurst was part of the hundred of Andersfield.

Originally part of the Royal Forest of North Petherton, its first squire owned Goathurst's St Edward's church, a Grade I listed building which includes a 19th-century monument to three-year-old Isabella Kemeys, showing the child lying on a pillow holding a broken flower.

Goathurst 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.

Governance

The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

For local government purposes, since 1 April 2023, the village comes under the unitary authority of Somerset Council. Prior to this, it was part of the non-metropolitan district of Sedgemoor, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Bridgwater Rural District.

It is also part of the Bridgwater county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election, and was part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament prior to Britain leaving the European Union in January 2020, which elected seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.

References

"Statistics for Wards, LSOAs and Parishes — SUMMARY Profiles". Somerset Intelligence.
"Andersfield hundred through time". A Vision of Britain Through Time.
"Goathurst". Quantock Online.
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Simmons, Louise. "The Hidden Churches of Somerset". Time Travel Britain.
"Prisoner of War camp, Haswell Park, Goathurst". Somerset County Council.
"Bridgwater RD". University of Portsmouth.

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