* Peasedown-the parish of Peasedown St John.

The modified constituency would cover Frome, Shepton Mallet, Holcombe, Buckland Dunham, Paulton, Midsomer Norton, Timsbury, Peasedown St John and Rode.

Peasedown St John ( commonly referred to as just Peasedown ) is one of the largest villages in Somerset, England.

The present village of Peasedown St John is relatively modern.

The rapid growth of non-conformist religion across the North-Somerset Coalfield in the later 1800s and early 1900s was evident in Peasedown St John.

The hamlets of Wellow and Shoscombe are sometimes regarded as part of Peasedown, but this is not correct, although New Buildings and Carlingcott are both still in the Parish of Peasedown St John.

Along with the rest of South West England, Peasedown St John has a temperate climate which is generally wetter and milder than the rest of the country.

Peasedown St John has a wide range of public facilities and amenities.

Beacon Hall is the home of the Peasedown St John Community Association.

There are various sports ' clubs in Peasedown St John.

Peasedown St John Cricket Club was founded over 100 years ago.

There is a large Primary School in Peasedown St John, built in 1913 and extended significantly in recent years.

Several School Coaches run daily between Peasedown St John and Writhlington School.

Peasedown St John currently has three Christian churches: Church of England, Methodist and Catholic.

Peasedown St John Methodist Church was also founded in 1874.

Peasedown St John was one of several local villages where in the 1930s budding children's author Roald Dahl used to sell kerosene.

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Peasedown Albion Football Club runs junior sides for 150 children and teenagers.

The hamlet of Carlingcott on the north east edge of Peasedown is known to have existed before 1800 but the main modern development in the area began in the 19th century when the Somerset Coalfield was greatly expanded as the Industrial Revolution increased demand for coal across England.

With the closure of the coal mines in the period up to the 1950s, and the growing popularity of out-of-town living, Peasedown rapidly became a commuter village for the cities of Bath and Bristol.

Although it was between 1850 and 1890 that Peasedown grew into being a distinct settlement, it was not until 1955 that it became a civil parish, officially remaining divided for administrative purposes between Camerton, Wellow and Dunkerton until that point.

The largest identifiable population group in Peasedown is married couples aged 20 to 44 who comprise almost half the total population of the village.

As of the 2001 census the population of Peasedown was around 5, 000, but owing to the recent housing developments, 2005 estimates put the population of the village at nearer 6, 500.

Located on a hilltop roughly south-southwest of the city of Bath, Peasedown used to be a coal mining village.

The medieval settlement of Eckweek was excavated in 1989, and now lies under the Peasedown Bypass and Underknoll Road.

By the second half of the 20th century there were at least six collieries within of Peasedown, including Braysdown, Camerton, Dunkerton, Writhlington and Shoscombe.

There was a Primitive Methodist Chapel on the Bath Road ( now Peasedown Methodist Church ), Wesleyan Chapels in Braysdown Lane, New Buildings and Carlingcott, a United Methodist Chapel in Carlingcott ( now Carlingcott Methodist Chapel ), a Baptist Chapel on Eckweek Road ( now Zebedees Nursery School ) and a Christadelphian Hall which still stands on Huddox Hill.

Peasedown lies on one of the many hills outside Bath, roughly south-southwest of Bath and southeast of Bristol.

There are three children's play areas at Beacon Field, Eckweek Lane and on ' the Rec ' ( Peasedown Recreation Field ), with the play area on ' the Rec ' including a BMX track.

Peasedown Athletic Football Club began life in the late 1800s as Peasedown Miners Welfare.

The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church.

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

* 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

John Newton Late Rector of the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, London: Volume 1, Nathan Whiting, London.

* 1309 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes.

* 1940 – Jill St. John, American actress

* 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

During his tenure he publicly defended the Dominicans against attacks by the secular and regular faculty of the University of Paris, commented on St John, and answered what he perceived as errors of the Arabian philosopher Averroes.

Grimbald and John the Saxon came from Francia ; Plegmund ( whom Alfred appointed archbishop of Canterbury in 890 ), Bishop Werferth of Worcester, Æthelstan, and the royal chaplains Werwulf, from Mercia ; and Asser, from St. David's in south-western Wales.

In the late sixth century, Ayios Ioannis Eleimonas ( Saint John the Charitable ), protector of the Knights of St. John, was born in Amathus.

Amathus still flourished and produced a distinguished patriarch of Alexandria, St. John the Merciful, as late as 606-616, and a ruined Byzantine church marks the site ; but it declined and was already almost deserted when Richard Plantagenet won Cyprus by a victory there over Isaac Comnenus in 1191.

He also translated from Greek into Latin a life of St. John Chrysostom ( Venice, 1533 ); the Spiritual Wisdom of John Moschus ; The Ladder of Divine Ascent of St. John Climacus ( Venice, 1531 ), P. G., LXXXVIII.

He also translated many homilies of St. John Chrysostom ; the treatise of the Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite on the celestial hierarchy ; St.

** Beheading of St. John the Baptist

Amongst these were the group Mars and Venus, the colossal figure of Pius VI, the Pietà, the St John, the recumbent Magdalen.