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Looking over good pasture land toward the Mendips, the Cam Brook is at the bottom of the next valley. Take a look along the skyline from the left, that small faint line pointing to the clouds is the Pen Hill transmitter near Wells ST5648
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Taken near [[[1084379]]]. Looking along the line of the Cam Brook which is on the other side of the hedge to the left.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking toward Temple Cloud.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Where it crosses the Cam Brook. Clutton is not far over the hill. Farm land
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Dist:0.5km<br/>The church has changed little during 200 years. The font can be seen at the west end.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>Now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust
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Dist:0.6km<br/>You can see most of the village from here. Only the parish church, St.James, saves it from being a hamlet. Apparently Temple Cloud is part of the same parish, this makes it a bit bigger, but size isn't everything.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>One of a short series of lakes fed by the River Cam. The Cameley Lodge Hotel is near here.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>Taken from the junction with the A37.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>There are three lakes in total, all fed by springs that run down from the Mendip Hills. The lakes were constructed in the 1970s so are a recent addition to the landscape. They are privately owned and stocked with fish for anglers.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>Near the middle of the village - sorry - town. Next is Farrington Gurney then Ston Easton, Gurney Slade and Shepton Mallet.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>Coming up the hill from Temple Bridge the A37 is just entering Temple Cloud on its way to Pensford and Bristol. The viewpoint is at the junction with Cameley Road.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>Where Cameley Road joins the A37. Do you know the difference between a town and a village? The following was copied from http://www.british-towns.net/en/level_4_display.asp?GetL3=9818 and may clear up a few points. Good one webmaster, an interesting website. "The town of Temple Cloud is an urban area that is larger than a village but smaller than a city. Unless Temple Cloud grows to a size where it is elevated to a higher administrative status it is effectively a parish but to differentiate between the two at the turn of the last century towns were granted the right to allow their elected representatives call themselves a "Town Council" and to, from their number, elect a Mayor. Other than that they have the same legal rights and responsibilities as a Parish Council." There is more. A road (classified A)
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Dist:0.9km<br/>The sign is an obvious reference to the crusades, the knight in front has been wounded, must be a story here. Dare I say it? "Two Little Boys" "The Temple in the place name may relate to the Knights Templar. Cloud is thought to come from the personal name Cloda." Copied from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Cloud Although we don’t know exactly when the knights acquired the lands around Temple Cloud their legacy remains in the old field names – Inner and Outer Temple Field and Temple Mead. Juliet Faith, who has researched the history of the Templars in the West Country, thinks that they may have gained these lands through Almeric St Maur, a Provincial Master of the English Templars who held office between 1200 and 1218. An important advisor to King John, who relied on the Templars for financial support, Almeric was present at the signing of the Magna Carta and is buried in London’s Temple church. The St Maur family were, at one time, big landowners in Somerset but all this came to an end in about 1400 when, without a male heir, the family name died out. It is more than likely, says Juliet, that it was through the St Maur family that the Templars became Lords of the Manor in Temple Cloud/Camely. In 1201 King John re-affirmed an earlier gift of these lands to the religious order. Before this date the manor had belonged to the monks of Bath Abbey and then later, to the De Marisco’s, a shifty and unreliable family who had a base on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel and who were later declared outlaws. A strange, wooden, iconic head found at Camely – it has a lozenge border and Moorish or Semitic features – may possibly be linked to the Templars. Whatever it’s purpose or meaning – and we will probably never know now – it’s been suggested that it was bought to Somerset from the east by returning crusaders. Copied from: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Undefined-Headline/article-1892483-detail/article.html
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