East Quantoxhead

East Quantoxhead is a village in the district of Somerset West and Taunton, 3 miles from West Quantoxhead, 4 miles east of Williton, and 13 miles west of Bridgwater, within the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Somerset, England.

The village has a manor house, thatched cottages, medieval tithe barn, its own duck pond and mill house dating from 1725. The manor house known, as Court House, has a medieval tower and other parts of the building which date from the 17th century. It has been designated as a grade I listed building. The manor was granted to Ralph Pagnall after the Norman Conquest passing down through generations to the Luttrells. No part of the estate has been sold since its grant around 1070 and is still owned by the descendants of the Paganel and Luttrell families. This required a special act of parliament in the 1920s to enable council houses to be built on land which was not freehold, contrary to the rules in the rest of the country.

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