Coln St Aldwyns Explained

Official Name:Coln St Aldwyns
Country:England
Region:South West England
Static Image:Malt House, Coln St Aldwyns, Gloucestershire (geograph 4630422).jpg
Static Image Caption:The Malt House
Population:271
Population Ref:(2011)[1]
Os Grid Reference:SP145053
Coordinates:51.7462°N -1.7914°W
Post Town:CIRENCESTER
Postcode Area:GL
Postcode District:GL7
Dial Code:01285
Civil Parish:Coln St Aldwyns[2]

Coln St Aldwyns (sometimes Coln St Aldwyn) is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of the English county of Gloucestershire.

History

Name

The designation "St Aldwyns" (Latin: Culna Sancti Aylwini) is attested from the 12th century, and differentiates the village from Coln Rogers and Coln St. Dennis, situated further along the River Coln.[3] [4] In 1086 in the Domesday book only a single undifferentiated "Culne" is recorded.[5] The name presumably indicates that the church in the village was originally dedicated to St Aylwin,[6] taken to be a form of St Æthelwine,[7] which later became St Aldwyn.

Church

At some point between 1535 and 1700 the dedication of the church was changed to St John the Baptist (specifically, to his beheading).[8] The church, in the very south of the parish, was mostly built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries with extensive 19th-century renovations, and is protected as a Grade II* listed building.[9] It is now in the charge of a team ministry alongside neighbouring parishes.

Williamstrip Park

Originally owned by the Powle family, the Williamstrip estate consists of an extensive manor and park, the latter dating back to the early 1600s and the parkland being commissioned in 1754.[10] The estate stretches to neighbouring Hatherop and during Enclosure, the boundaries were altered slightly and land was exchanged.[11] The politician Michael Hicks Beach, the first Earl St Aldwyn took up residence here.[12] [13]

Governance

Coln St Aldwyns is part of the Coln Valley ward of the district of Cotswold and is currently represented by Councillor Raymond Theodoulou,[14] a member of the Conservative Party. Coln St Aldwyns is part of the parliamentary constituency of Cotswold, represented in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown.[15] Prior to Brexit in 2020, it was part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Parish population 2011. 25 March 2015.
  2. Web site: Coln St Aldwyns Parish Council. 2015-09-30.
  3. A. D. Mills (2011), A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press
  4. http://placenames.org.uk/browse/mads/epns-deep-38-b-subparish-000004 Coln St Aldwyn
  5. http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1405/coln-st-aldwyns/ Coln (St Aldwyns)
  6. see e.g. 13th century charter, in William H. Hart (1863), Historia et cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae, Volume 1, p. 257
  7. e.g. in "Coln St. Aldwyns", in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7, ed. N. M. Herbert (Victoria County History series, Oxford, 1981), pp. 44-55; via British History Online
  8. http://www.achurchnearyou.com/coln-st-aldwyn-st-john-the-baptist/ St John the Baptist, Coln St Aldwyn
  9. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-127387-church-of-st-john-the-baptist-coln-st-al#.VrEf1fmLTIU Listing text
  10. Web site: Gardens (en) . Parks and . 1865-01-01 . Williamstrip Park - Cirencester . 2023-07-14 . Parks & Gardens . en.
  11. Web site: Hatherop British History Online . 2023-07-14 . www.british-history.ac.uk.
  12. Book: Hall, Michael . Stratford-Upon-Avon and the Cotswolds . The Pevensey Press . 1993 . 0-907115-68-3 . 83 .
  13. Book: Bentley, Michael . Politics Without Democracy, 1815-1914 . Blackwell . 1999 . 0-631-21813-0 . 268 .
  14. Web site: Cotswold Committee Management System (CMIS) > Councillors. www.cmis.cotswold.gov.uk. 2015-09-30.
  15. Web site: Cotswold - Constituency - Conservative Party. Conservative Party. 2008-04-28. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20061017182453/https://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=people.constituency.page&obj_id=1396. 17 October 2006. dmy-all.