Date | Event |
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250,000 -500,000 BC |
A member of Homo heidelbergensis left a Palaeolithic handaxe in the fields around Priston, later found by Robert Davies and donated to Roman Baths Museum. |
43 -199 AD |
Roman
farmstead in Priston, site of coffin
found in 1917. You can view:
|
930 | King Athelstan gives Manor of Priston to Monastery of Bath. See the charter and the article written by Clare Cross for The Link. |
931 | Wooden church already in existence. |
1086 | Domesday book entry for Priston. |
12th C | Nave of church built. |
15th C | Oldest existing bell installed in Priston Church, but see article. |
1530 | Dissolution of the monasteries leads to loss of Priston by Monastery of Bath |
1550s | Priston sold to Christopher Bayly, a wealthy clothier of Trowbridge. |
1568 | Priston inherited by Christopher Bayly's grand-daughter, Rebecca |
1588 | Rebecca marries Henry Long of Whaddon, near Salisbury. |
1593 | Priston man hanged at top of Tunley Hill for poisoning his wife. from the court roll: 36 Elizabeth [1593] Court Baron of Henry Long [Lord of Priston], James Ley seneschal: 20 March - Richard Clement, who held by courtroll one half of a tenement with pertinences and certain lands belonging [the village bakery], was convicted before the last court of a felony for killing with poison Margery his wife and therefore was attainted and condemned to hang. Afterwards he was hanged whereupon the hanging took place at Tunley The gallows presumably stood beside the main road at the top of Tunley Hill, a prominent position adjoining the south-west corner of the parish. (with thanks to Mike Chapman). |
1633-66 | Church Farmhouse built. |
1667-1732 | Granary built, next to Church Farmhouse. |
early 1700s | Estate sold to Lord Chedworth and Simon, Earl of Harcourt. |
1754 | Priston church tower rebuilt. |
1757 | Priston Manor sold to William Jenkins for £15,475. |
1764/65 | Coal mining first started in Priston by William Jenkins. |
1803 | Priston Poor House established. |
1813 | William Vaughan presents cockerel weathervane and clock to Priston Church. |
1830-40 | Priston Manor House enlarged to its present size. |
1838 | Priston Poor House converted for use as school. |
1851 |
George Bush is murdered in Cow Lees (see article) |
1860s | Priston church restored - pulpit installed. |
1866 | School rebuilt in present form. |
1869 | Stained glass window installed. |
1892 | William Vaughan-Jenkins becomes Lord of the Manor on the death of Frederick Vaughan-Jenkins |
1894 | Priston Parish Council created by Local Government Act 1894. |
1897 | William Vaughan-Jenkins is succeeded as Lord of the Manor by his son (also called William). |
1908 | See some old postcards of Priston dating from c 1908. |
1910 | School building extended to create cloakrooms - later to be used as a kitchen. |
1915 | First coal extracted from Priston coal pit. |
1917 | Roman
coffin
found on Hill Farm - later placed in entrance to Priston Church.
You can read:
|
1918 | John Ormonde Butler, son of the Revd. Robert Moore Peile Butler (Rector of Priston), died in April 1918 while serving with the RAF in France during WWI. See Butler family memorabilia. |
1919 | Auction of Priston Manor Estate.See the Auction Map. |
1930 | Priston pit closed - coal was still worked from Camerton colliery until c. 1940. |
1934 | Priston School becomes a junior school only. |
1936 | Priston Manor sold to Ingle family. |
1939 | School provided with running water and playground is ashphalted. |
1948 | Priston WI started. |
1959 |
Henry
Purcell
Priston's Peppermint Horse, falls at Becher's Brook at the Grand
National, breaks its back and has to be shot. See photo of Henry Purcelland article for The Link by Aylet Anderson. |
1970 | Priston School closes |
1972 | First Village Social held. |
1975 | Priston Shop and Post Office closes. |
1977 | First edition of The Link. |
1977 | Priston Jubilee Morris formed. |
1984 | Priston Cricket Club formed. |
1985 | Priston Toddler Group formed. |
1995 | Priston Glee Club formed. |
1995 |
First ever New Year's Day Duck Race, organised by
Priston Cricket Club. |
1997 | Most recent regilding of cockerel weathervane from Priston Church tower. |
1998 | Priston Garage goes mobile. |
1999 | Bus service giving four buses a day starts. |
2000 | Priston
celebrates Millennium by:
See Millennium Event photos. |
2001 | Our Millennium Book is published. |
2002 | The Priston Web launched. |
2004 | Bench in memory of Jim Nokes and Charlie Fry erected on the village green. |
2004 | Reunion of pupils of Priston School (1937-1945). |
2005 |
Trafalgar
200
celebrations. |
2008 | First Priston Festival held. |
2009 | Automated external defibrillator handed over to Priston Parish Council by the PRIDE Group. |
2010 | Stained glass window installed by Nicola Hopwood installed in Priston Church. |
2012 | Diamond Jubilee celebrations |
2014 | Priston Stone erected in Priston Valley by Stephen Jones. |
2015 |
Waterloo celebrations |
2016 |
Queen's
90th Birthday celebrations |
2016 | TrueSpeed Ultrafast broadband goes live in the village. |
2019 | Major refurbishment of the Village Hall completed. |
2020 | Priston experiences lockdown due to Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. |
2020 | Priston marks the 75th anniversary of VE Day under lockdown conditions. |
2020 | Priston Web relaunched in a more responsive and accessible format. |
2022 | Priston celebrates the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. |
(all by kind permission of Mike Chapman and Bath & NE Somerset Council)
(articles reproduced with permission from BACAS - Bath & Counties Archaeological Society).