Item | Detail |
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Name: | Priston |
Meaning: | Farmstead near
the
brushwood or copse (A Dictionary of English Place-names OUP 1998) |
Population | 250 (2021 Census), 232 (2011), 252 (2001) , 250 (1991) |
Priston People |
Initial results from 2021 Census for Priston Parish (includes Wilmington):
(2011 figures in brackets)
You can find further 2021 information at https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps, and more 2011 information at https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E04000985. See the results of a Village Survey conducted in April 2008. |
Landscape & Character | See Character Assessments web-page. |
Biodiversity | See our list of Priston birds and plants. |
Geology | See Geology of the Priston Area and borehole record. |
Broadband quality | Copper-based ADSL is available throughout the village from a variety of suppliers, speeds vary from 1-8 Mb/s. Fibre-To-The-Premises (FTTP) ultrafast broadband is also available from TrueSpeed Communications Ltd, giving speeds of up to 100 Mb/s. |
Latitude: | 51 degrees 20 minutes North |
Longitude: | 2 degrees 26 minutes West |
OS Grid Reference: | 36951605 or ST695605 |
Area: |
750 hectares, or
1850
acres
or 2.9 square miles approximately |
Height above sea level: | 90 metres or 300 feet approx. |
Traditions: |
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Oldest living inhabitant: |
The yew
tree in
Priston church yard? |
Literary references: |
"Priston. Nature has
made it lovely and man has made it irresistible." "I drove to
Priston
[Rectory] to dine with Mr. Hammond . . .
and had an entertainment better suited to Grovesnor Square
than a
clergyman's home - French dishes and French wines in
profusion. I hope
such feasts will not be repeated often, or I am sure I shall
not be one
of the guests." "These
fifty square miles or so of Somerset, bounded by the red-brick
villages
of Clutton in the west and Combe Hay in the east, Priston in
the north
and Kilmersdon in the south, lie on top of a score of complex,
broken,twisted and contorted seams of coal, which until as
late as the
1970s were worked by as independent and militant band of
English mining
men as might ever have stepped out from beneath the
winding-gears of
the coalfields of Durham or Lanark." The picture on page x of Luke Barclay's A Loo with a View was taken from East Barn, looking across Priston High St towards Tunley. |
Other Priston's on the Web | The Priston Tale is a Full-3D MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) based on the players’ adventures in the continent of Priston. |