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Pawlett is a village and civil parish 4 miles (6 km) north of Bridgwater, in the English county of Somerset. The parish includes the hamlet of Stretcholt.
The village has Roman or Saxon origins. It has a Norman church and expanded in the 17th and 18th centuries with the draining of the Somerset Levels.
During World War II it was the site of an experimental research station into anti-barrage balloon warfare, where experiments were performed to examine ways to use cable cutting devices on the wings of aircraft to sever the cable on which the balloon was flown and thus allow the aircraft to continue on a mission unimpeded. Brave pilots flew their machines into cables to test the effectiveness of these cutters.
A survey in 2003 recorded an early system of flood banks in the "Hams" around the village which may have originated in the Roman or Saxon periods. An early field system was also identified, again possibly originating in the Saxon period. The Pawlett Hams form part of the Bridgwater Bay Site of Special Scientific Interest.
A small settlement of six households was recorded as Pavelet in the 1086 Domesday Book. In the 12th century the Pawlett Hams, running west of the village, were known as being the richest 2,000 acres (8 km2) in England.
The name of the village is believed to come from an 11th-century estate and may refer to a stream, either with stakes or below a steep-sided hill.[citation needed]
The village lies on a bend of the River Parrett near to its mouth and had a landing place, called Pawlett pill, by the 15th century. It continued in use in the 18th century, but by 1780 it had been blocked by Canham sluice as part of the drainage of the Somerset Levels. In the 19th century Pawlett had a jury of sewers to view rhynes and ditches, and by 1936 the parish had its own water board to supervise drainage and freshwater irrigation of the Hams. This was absorbed into the Bridgwater and Pawlett drainage board in 1946.
In 1801 the population was 429, rising to 433 in 1811 and to 529 in 1821 when there were only 69 houses for 98 families. Numbers peaked at 597 in 1871, but fell from 483 in 1891 and to 346 in 1901. The population thereafter increased to 374 in 1911, 462 in 1931, 672 in 1961, and 786 in 1981.
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Pawlett
Pawlett is a village and civil parish 4 miles (6 km) north of Bridgwater, in the English county of Somerset. The parish includes the hamlet of Stretcholt.
The village has Roman or Saxon origins. It has a Norman church and expanded in the 17th and 18th centuries with the draining of the Somerset Levels.
During World War II it was the site of an experimental research station into anti-barrage balloon warfare, where experiments were performed to examine ways to use cable cutting devices on the wings of aircraft to sever the cable on which the balloon was flown and thus allow the aircraft to continue on a mission unimpeded. Brave pilots flew their machines into cables to test the effectiveness of these cutters.
A survey in 2003 recorded an early system of flood banks in the "Hams" around the village which may have originated in the Roman or Saxon periods. An early field system was also identified, again possibly originating in the Saxon period. The Pawlett Hams form part of the Bridgwater Bay Site of Special Scientific Interest.
A small settlement of six households was recorded as Pavelet in the 1086 Domesday Book. In the 12th century the Pawlett Hams, running west of the village, were known as being the richest 2,000 acres (8 km2) in England.
The name of the village is believed to come from an 11th-century estate and may refer to a stream, either with stakes or below a steep-sided hill.[citation needed]
The village lies on a bend of the River Parrett near to its mouth and had a landing place, called Pawlett pill, by the 15th century. It continued in use in the 18th century, but by 1780 it had been blocked by Canham sluice as part of the drainage of the Somerset Levels. In the 19th century Pawlett had a jury of sewers to view rhynes and ditches, and by 1936 the parish had its own water board to supervise drainage and freshwater irrigation of the Hams. This was absorbed into the Bridgwater and Pawlett drainage board in 1946.
In 1801 the population was 429, rising to 433 in 1811 and to 529 in 1821 when there were only 69 houses for 98 families. Numbers peaked at 597 in 1871, but fell from 483 in 1891 and to 346 in 1901. The population thereafter increased to 374 in 1911, 462 in 1931, 672 in 1961, and 786 in 1981.
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