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The Camelot Group of Parishes
Having evolved for a number of years, the Camelot Group of Parishes was legally established in 1976 and was the first team of this sort in the county of Somerset.
The parishes of Blackford, Compton Pauncefoot, Holton, Maperton, North Cadbury (including the villages of Galhampton and Woolston), North Cheriton, South Cadbury and Yarlington, in the Diocese of Bath and Wells, are served by a ministry team consisting of the Vicar, lay Readers, retired and non-stipediary clergy.
The eight parishes work closely together in several ways. There are Group Services, a Group Choir and a combined monthly magazine named the "Excalibur" (after the Arthurian legends associated with Cadbury Castle) and a Group Council concerned with joint activities and long-term planning.
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| Chapel Cottage |
| This was the Baptist Chapel, used for worship until after World war II (1939-1945). |
| Church Farmhouse |
| Built in 1673, this is thought to have been the original farmhouse for what is now Manor Farm. The rear part of Manor Farmhouse and the grannary behind it it date from the same period whil a portion of the present farmhouse dates back to the fourteenth century. |
| Holton House |
| - in Higher Holton, is the former rectory. |
| Horseshoe Cottage |
| Owned and used by the Norris family, the building owes its name to having previously been a smithy (later than the building now serving as the rectory). |
| Jubilee Room |
| The village hall was given to the parish by Mrs Lucy Campbell of Holton House. |
| Lattiford Farm |
| The farm occupies a former monastery which had a chapel and burial ground and was used as a resting place by monks travelling between Glastonbury and Cerne Abbas. |
| The Old Inn |
| was a hostelry when Holton was on the main road between London and the South West before the arrival of the A303. Next door is the present Rectory. |
| The Rectory |
| The building which is now the rectory is about two hundred years old and, next to the Old Inn, served the needs of travellers as a smithy. |
In William the Conqueror's Domesday Book, Holton appears as "Altone", held by the King's Chamberlain, Humphrey, and consisting of
"Meadow 6 acres, Woodland 6 acres" with a population of 1 villager, 4 smallholders, 1 slave. Stock 1 cob, 2 cows, 12 pigs, 12 sheep.
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HOLTON, a parish in the hundred of Whitley, county Somerset, 2 miles S.W. of Wincanton, its post town, and 3 from the station of the South-Western railway. The village, which is small, is wholly agricultural. The soil consists of clay and stone brash, with sand in parts. The land is chiefly in pasture, and orchard and dairy farming is extensively carried on. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells, value �100. The church, dedicated to St. John, is a stone structure, with a tower containing three bells. A Sunday-school is held at the clerk's house. Messrs. Plucknett are lords of the manor.
| | - The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868 |
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