CHELWOOD

'Chelwood' () is a small village within the Chew Valley in North Somerset about 8 miles from Bristol and Bath.
Chelwood is one of the seven Thankful Villages in Somerset where all the men returned from the First World War, 4 went and 4 returned.
According to Robinson there are two entries in the 1086 Domesday Book ''Cellwert'' and ''Celeworde'' both indicating the same meaning 'the hill farm' from the Old English ''ceol'' and ''wor''.^[1]

Contents

Government and politics

Demographics

Buildings

References

External links

Government and politics

Chelwood, has a Parish council which has some responsibility for local issues, and, along with Stanton Drew and Clutton, is part of the Clutton Ward which is represented by one councillor on the Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority which has wider responsibilities for services such as education, refuse, tourism etc. The village is a part of the Wansdyke constituency, which will become North East Somerset at the next general election and part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament.

Demographics

According to the 2001 Cenusus The Clutton Ward (which includes Stanton Drew and Clutton), had 1,290 residents, living in 483 households, with an average age of 40.3 years. Of these 72% of residents describing their health as 'good', 22% of 16-74 year olds had no qualifications; and the area had an unemployment rate of 2.2% of all economically active people aged 16-74. In the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004, it was ranked at 24,527 out of 32,482 wards in England, where 1 was the most deprived LSOA and 32,482 the least deprived.^[2]

Buildings

Chelwood House was built in the valley of the river Chew in 1681 as a Dower House, and sits in 1.3 acre gardens. The property is a grade 2 listed building .()
Chelwood includes several other Grade II listed buildings:

★ Church Farmhouse ()

★ Malt House Farmhouse ()

★ Old School House ()

★ Park Farmhouse ()

★ Wall and railings about 5 metres north east of Old School House ()

★ Withydale and attached house ()
St Leonards church was nearly all built around 1850, but two corbel-heads of the nave arcade said to be C13. The font is Norman with tiny volutes at the edges and a top frieze of something like lambrequins. The stained glass has various C16 Flemish bits in south aisle window.

References

1. Somerset Place Names, , Stephen, Robinson, The Dovecote Press Ltd, 1992,
2. Neighbourhood Statistics LSOA Bath and North East Somerset 020A Clutton

External links

★ Chelwood.co.uk

★ Chelwood House

★ Rotary club serving the Chew Valley and surrounding areas

★ Photos of Chelwood in 3d (Anaglyphs)