CHISELBOROUGH

'Chiselborough' is a village situated on the river Parrett five miles west of Yeovil in Somerset, England. The village has a population of 335. It is surrounded by five hills within the parish of the same name. The village was recorded in Saxon times as ‘Ceoselbergon’ and was later mentioned in the Domesday Book as ‘Ceolseberge’ in the holding of Robert, Count of Mortain. The name derives from the Old English ''cisel'' and ''beorg'' (gravel and hill). The Earls of Ilchester held most of the village until 1914 when the estates were sold off.
Geologically, the valley consists of a thin layer of Fuller's earth clay over Yeovil sands. The village consists largely of small cottages built in the local golden Ham Hill stone. The annual Chiselborough Fair was held on common ground near the street now known as Fair Place.

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# Somerset County Council, 2002. Population estimates.

★ Countryside Agency, ‘Yeovil Scarplands’, ''Countryside Character Initiative'', 2000 Retrieved July 30 2003

★ Countryside Commission, ''The New Map of England: A Celebration of the South Western Landscape'', (Cheltenham: Countryside Commission, 1994)

★ Havinden, Michael A. ''The Somerset Landscape'', (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981)