Othery
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The parish and village of Othery, established in 1515, sits on a detached extension of Sowy island on the Somerset Levels. It is east of Bridgwater and north-west of Langport. It borders the hamlets and villages of Pathe, Burrowbridge, Middlezoy, Westonzoyland and Aller, which it meets at Beer Wall. The border with Burrowbridge was defined in 1985, reducing Othery to 553 ha (1,366 acres). Many of these borders are defined by ditches and walls created and rearranged, from the 13th century onwards, to drain and channel the waters of the River Cary and the River Parrett as they flooded the low-ly
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- Locality
- Bridgwater
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 642
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
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- alt=Stone building with prominent square tower. In the foreground are gravestones.|240px
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- The Church of St Michael
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Othery
- UK place.population
- 642
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.unitary_england
- Somerset Council
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Somerset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Bridgwater
- UK place.post_town
- BRIDGWATER
- UK place.postcode_district
- TA7
- UK place.postcode_area
- TA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01823
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- ST3823
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The parish and village of Othery, established in 1515, sits on a detached extension of Sowy island on the Somerset Levels. It is east of Bridgwater and north-west of Langport. It borders the hamlets and villages of Pathe, Burrowbridge, Middlezoy, Westonzoyland and Aller, which it meets at Beer Wall. The border with Burrowbridge was defined in 1985, reducing Othery to 553 ha (1,366 acres). Many of these borders are defined by ditches and walls created and rearranged, from the 13th century onwards, to drain and channel the waters of the River Cary and the River Parrett as they flooded the low-lying levels on their way to the Bristol Channel.
== History == The name means "Other-island". The "island" of Othery rising above the Levels is a mixed sedimentary and alluvial deposit: marl, Mercia mudstone, sand and gravel ("Burtle Beds"), peat, and deposits from the basin of the River Parrett. The moors on the shallowest deposits are just above sea level, with the highest hill, on the southwest side of Othery, standing above sea level.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Othery” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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