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Clandown is a village lying north of Radstock in
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, England, just off the Fosseway. It is north of Radstock. The nearby Bowlditch Quarry is a 0.25
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.


History

Clandown was formerly a mining village, on the
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, but the last pits in the area closed in the late 1960s. The colliery at Clandown opened in 1811 and closed in 1929 and had a maximum shaft depth of . In 1896 it was owned by the trustees of the late C. Hollewy and by 1908 by the Clandown Colliery Co. Artefacts from a Roman site have been found close to the village. Clandown Farmhouse on Pow's Hill was built in the 1720s. As well as a church, there were two chapels and three public houses. One of the chapels has been demolished and the other has been converted to apartments. Two pubs have been demolished. A school was opened in 1861 (there having been a dame school before this) and closed in 2006.


Governance

Clandown forms part of the North East Somerset and Hanham constituency, which elects a Member of Parliament to the
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of the
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. It was also part of the South West England constituency of the
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prior to Britain leaving the European Union in January 2020. Almost all significant
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functions are carried out by
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, a
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.


Religious sites

The Church of the Holy Trinity was built in the 1840s in a
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style, designed by George Phillips Manners. It was built for the Rev. Charles Otway Mayne of
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. It has a small three-stage tower, a two bay
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and two bay
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. It is a Grade II listed building. The building is now used as a residence.


References

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