Stanton Drew

This article is about the village. For the prehistoric stone circles, see Stanton Drew stone circles.
Not to be confused with Drew Stanton.

Stanton Drew
Gray stone building with square tower behind. In the foregound are green fields and bushes.
Stanton Drew is located in Somerset
Stanton Drew
Stanton Drew
Location within Somerset
Population787 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceST597632
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBRISTOL
Postcode districtBS39
Dialling code01275
PoliceAvon and Somerset
FireAvon
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Somerset
51°21′59″N 2°34′42″W / 51.3663°N 2.5782°W / 51.3663; -2.5782

Stanton Drew is a small village and civil parish within the Chew Valley in Somerset, England, lying north of the Mendip Hills, 8 miles (13 km) south of Bristol, just off the A368 between Chelwood and Bishop Sutton in the area of the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority.

Just outside the village are the prehistoric Stanton Drew stone circles. The largest of these, the Great Circle, is a henge monument and the second largest stone circle in Britain, after Avebury. The circle is 113 m in diameter and probably consisted of 30 stones, of which 27 survive today.

The village has a range of listed buildings, dating from the 13th to 15th centuries, including the church of St Mary the Virgin, the Round House (Old Toll House) and several farmhouses.

The parish of Stanton Drew, which includes the hamlet of Stanton Wick, had a population of 787 in 2011.[1] Until 1947 the parish also included Belluton and part of Pensford.[2] It has a primary school, pubs (the Druids Arms and the Carpenters Arms at Stanton Wick), a church and a village hall, which is the venue for various village activities. The area around the village has several dairy and arable farms on neutral to acid red loamy soils with slowly permeable subsoils.[3] It is also a dormitory village for people working in Bath and Bristol.

  1. ^ a b "Stanton Drew Parish". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Parish Chronicle". Publow and Pensford Parish. 11 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Area 2 – Chew Valley". BANES Environmental Services. Archived from the original on 15 February 2006. Retrieved 3 January 2006.