Queen Charlton

Queen Charlton
Queen Charlton
	Church of St Margaret
	Queen Charlton Location within Somerset
OS grid reference	ST634671
Civil parish	Compton Dando;
Unitary authority	Bath and North East Somerset;
Ceremonial county	Somerset;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	KEYNSHAM
Postcode district	BS31 2
Dialling code	0117 986
Police	Avon and Somerset
Fire	Avon
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	North East Somerset;
	List of places UK England Somerset 51°24′06″N 2°31′38″W / 51.4018°N 2.5271°W

Queen Charlton is a small village within the civil parish of Compton Dando, within the Unitary Authority of Bath and North East Somerset in Somerset, England. The nearest town is Keynsham, which lies approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north east of the village.

The village was originally simply Charlton, recorded in 1291 as Cherleton. It was an estate of Keynsham Abbey until the Dissolution, and the prefix was added when the estate was given by Henry VIII to Queen Catherine Parr.^[1]

The Church of St Margaret dates from the 12th century. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.^[2] There is a late medieval cross on the village green.^[3]

Notable residents

The author Dick King-Smith lived in Queen Charlton until his death in 2011.^[4]

^ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Queen Charlton", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, p. 126, ISBN 978 0 521 16855 7
^ "Church of St Margaret". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2008.
^ "Cross on Village Green, in front of Tolzey Cottage". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2008.
^ "Author Dick King-Smith dies, aged 88". Evening Post. This is Bristol. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2011.