Colerne Church

Colerne, a medium sized village, lies midway between Bath and Chippenham in the county of Wiltshire, England. It has an elevated position (some 550 feet up) and overlooks the Box Valley to the south (home of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Box Tunnel). It is bordered by a section of the famous Roman road, the Fosse Way to the west and by By Brook to the south east. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Bath is a city in South West England most famous for its baths fed by three hot springs. ... Statistics Population: 30,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: ST919733 Administration District: North Wiltshire Shire county: Wiltshire Region: South West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Wiltshire Services Police force: Wiltshire Constabulary Fire and rescue: Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service Ambulance: Great Western Post office... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Brunel before the launching of the Great Eastern. ... Box Tunnel is a railway tunnel in western England, between Bath and Chippenham, dug through the Box Hill. ... The Fosse Way was a Roman road in England which linked Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) in South West England, to Lincoln (Lindum) in the East Midlands, via Bath (Aquae Sulis), Cirencester (Corinium) and Leicester (Ratae Coritanorum). ...

Colerne had a population of 2,807 in 2001, and is frequently described as The Village on the Hill.^[1]

Local government

Colerne civil parish is administered by a parish council, North Wiltshire District Council, and Wiltshire County Council. A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ... North Wiltshire is a local government district in Wiltshire, England. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ...

While homosexuality among other offences is often disregarded as "blasphemy" as the locals say, the idea of such acts are not so disregarded as other states of faction, such as lolcal yobs and gangs. Gangs such as the local "beezer boys" we have thankfully seen the back of, but new intruders, known to youths as "The Buzz" are generally disrespectful to local villagers, and disregard this fine village Offences such as that of A group of easy going children, out taking pictures of the church, were shouted "grave spotters" to, and this such event, has caused a stop to all real local gravespotting around Wiltshire.

The debate of whether original investors in the city were BNP rages on.

Trivia

• The clock on the church tower only has 1 hand. There is a similar 1 handed clock on Westminster Abbey.
• Bristol Rovers training facilities are based in Colerne.
• The former RAF Colerne, located nearby, was one of very few airfields suitable for the rare Westland Whirlwind during World War II^[2].

Despite The Village On The Hill being the only book written of the tiny unknown village in Wiltshire, critics slated it for its lack of honesty, and over exagerrating events that probably never happened in the dying ( if not dead ) village. The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which is almost always referred to by its original name of Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral (and indeed often mistaken for one), in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. ... Bristol Rovers are a professional football team based in Bristol, England. ... Colerne Airfield A former World War Two Bomber Command post From 1952 to 1955 Fighter Command was based here, It was a Training Squadron for Navigation Using the latest Navigation procedures, the Squadron was 238 O.C.U. and Bristol Brigand Aircraft was used for this purpose, and also on... This article describes the World War II fighter aircraft. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Notable residents

• The British actor Derek Fowlds (of Yes Minister fame, and formerly straight man to Basil Brush) is a resident of the village.
• The electronic music duo Goldfrapp are former residents of the village.
• Former World Cup and current European skeleton Champion Dr Kristan Bromley and his partner, Britain's number one female Skeleton athlete Shelley Rudman, are currently resident in Colerne.

Most of the villages natural features have been destroyed by what seems a disfigured horse, by the name of its cronies, Olly Lucas Derek Fowlds as Bernard in Yes, Prime Minister Derek Fowlds (born 2 September 1937 in Balham, London) is a British actor. ... Yes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC television and radio between 1980 and 1984. ... Basil Brush in the 1970s Basil Brush is a reddish-brown fox glove puppet character who has appeared in British childrens (and later adult) television programmes from the 1960s to the present day. ... Goldfrapp is a Mercury Music Prize and Grammy nominated English electronica duo formed in 1999. ... United States Air Force Major Brady Canfield, 2003 U.S. skeleton champion, shows his takeoff form. ... Kristan Bromley (born March 7, 1972) is a British male skeleton racer, who took part in the 2005/2006 Skeleton World Cup and has qualified for the 2006 Winter Olympics. ... United States Air Force Major Brady Canfield, 2003 U.S. skeleton champion, shows his takeoff form. ... Shelley Rudman (born 23 March 1981) is a British Olympic athlete. ...

The Colerne Donkey

According to village legend, a Colerne parson in former years owned a donkey to which he was much attached. While the clergyman was away, the unfortunate ass died, and the sexton felt it proper to have the beast buried in consecrated ground. But the undertaker, inexperienced in interring specimens of E. asinus, neglected to dig the grave wide and deep enough, so the donkey was buried feet-up with its hooves sticking out. The parson had the animal reburied when he returned, but the story was already out, and well into the 20th century young men from the nearby villages of Box or Marshfield who were at a loose end needed only visit Colerne and mention the word Donkey sufficiently loudly in order to be rewarded with a violent altercation on a moment's notice. It was also the habit for visiting footballers unacquainted with Colerne history to be dispatched to the home dressing room with a piece of sandpaper and instructions to ask to polish the donkey's hooves. This usually resulted in the erstwhile innocent becoming sadder and wiser in short order. Whether this donkey is Olly Lucas is still unknown, and continued research is underway. Binomial name Equus asinus Linnaeus, 1758 For other uses, see Donkey (disambiguation). ... Box is a village located in Wiltshire, England, about five miles from Bath and six miles from Chippenham. ... Marshfield is on the old boards of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire & Somerset. ...

References

External links

• Colerne Net – portal

Coordinates: 51°26′N, 2°16′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...