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The whole village is a conservation area.
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Some still use the older form of the name, "Pauncefote".
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The Camelot Group of Parishes
Having evolved for a number of years, the Camelot Group of Parishes was legally established in 1976 and was the first team of this sort in the county of Somerset.
The parishes of Blackford, Compton Pauncefoot, Holton, Maperton, North Cadbury (including the villages of Galhampton and Woolston), North Cheriton, South Cadbury and Yarlington, in the Diocese of Bath and Wells, are served by a ministry team consisting of the Vicar, lay Readers, retired and non-stipediary clergy.
The eight parishes work closely together in several ways. There are Group Services, a Group Choir and a combined monthly magazine named the "Excalibur" (after the Arthurian legends associated with Cadbury Castle) and a Group Council concerned with joint activities and long-term planning.
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The castle was built c. 1825 in large grounds with a gatehouse and lawns stretching down to a lake.
Until recent times, it was owned by the Showering family until they sold it in 1986.
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| The Crescent |
| originally known as "Waterloo Crescent", the quarter circle of cottages was built for farm workers in 1815, the year of the Wellington's defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. |
| The Manor House |
| to the north of the parish church dates mainly from the eighteenth century although parts of the building date back to the fifteenth century. |
| The Old Rectory |
| to the south of the parish church was, originally, a fifteenth century Priest's House with later, particularly Georgian, additions. Both the Old Rectory and church were used in a serialised version of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. |
The Domesday Book records that the manor was held by Goisfrid, a tennant of Thurstin Fitz Rolph. It later belonged to the Pauncefoot family until 1493 when Peter, the son of Walter, died at only seven years of age and the manor was divided between his sisters, one of whom, Anne, Married John Whyting of Devon. Their eldest daughter, Mary, married Humphrey Keynes who succeeded to a share of the estate at the time of the Reformation when the chantry was suppressed and there was "a chalice of silver . . . remayning in the custody of Humphraye Keyns wayinge xvii oz".
The Keynes were recussants and royalists and, after the civil war, Edward Keynes was forced to sell his share of the estate to Mr John Hunt who already possessed the other part of Compton Pauncefoot.
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