Compton Dundon

Compton Dundon is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated beside King's Sedge Moor and the Polden Hills, 5mi south of Glastonbury and 4mi north of Somerton in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 705. The parish includes the hamlet of Littleton. HistoryJust outside the village is Dundon Hill (or Dundon Camp), an Iron Age hill fort, with 2 m (6. 5 ft) ramparts. An excavation in 1916 found pottery and flints here, but the fort has been damaged by quarrying. The manor was owned by Glastonbury Abbey at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086. The parish of Compton Dundon was part of the Whitley Hundred. Paul Kemp-King writes in an unpublished manuscript that it is almost certain that there was once a bell foundry in the village, although its exact location is uncertain. Bells cast in Compton Dundon can be found in nearby villages: Somerton (a 1661 bell) and Aller (bells cast in 1638, 1640, and 1663 by Robert Austen), for example. Kemp-King writes that the difficulty of transporting the heavy bells by horse and cart made local casting by itinerant bellfounders desirable.

Compton Dundon is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated beside King's Sedge Moor and the Polden Hills, 5mi south of Glastonbury and 4mi north of Somerton in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 705. The parish includes the hamlet of Littleton. HistoryJust outside the village is Dundon Hill (or Dundon Camp), an Iron Age hill fort, with 2 m (6. 5 ft) ramparts. An excavation in 1916 found pottery and flints here, but the fort has been damaged by quarrying. The manor was owned by Glastonbury Abbey at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086. The parish of Compton Dundon was part of the Whitley Hundred. Paul Kemp-King writes in an unpublished manuscript that it is almost certain that there was once a bell foundry in the village, although its exact location is uncertain. Bells cast in Compton Dundon can be found in nearby villages: Somerton (a 1661 bell) and Aller (bells cast in 1638, 1640, and 1663 by Robert Austen), for example. Kemp-King writes that the difficulty of transporting the heavy bells by horse and cart made local casting by itinerant bellfounders desirable.