Burnett, Somerset
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| Burnett shown within Somerset | |
| Population | 68 |
| OS grid reference | ST6646165032 |
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| 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 |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
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Burnett is a small village within the civil parish of Compton Dando, approximately 500 metres (1,600 ft) from the River Chew in the Chew Valley within the Unitary Authority of Bath and North East Somerset in Somerset, England. The nearest town is Keynsham, which lies approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the village. The parish had an acreage of 608 acres (246 ha). It is within the Bristol/Bath Green Belt.
The origin of the name Burnett is most likely derived from the old English word baernet, meaning a place cleared by burning, and the earliest evidence of a settlement was in the period of the Roman occupation.
Burnett later appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086 with 30 inhabitants. In 1102 the village came under the control of the powerful ecclesiastical body of Tewkesbury Abbey and the Benedictine monks stopped to worship and rest at St Michael's Church en route to Glastonbury.
The manor was held by Edith of Wessex, probably from the time of her marriage to King Edward the Confessor in 1045, until her death in 1074. Along with other lands in Somerset, it was reverted to William the Conqueror.
The religious upheavals of the 16th century saw Burnett finish in the hands of a wealthy Bristol merchant named John Cutte, (later, mayor of Bristol) and a fine wall brass (dated 1575) on the church's chancel wall commemorates his family.
The next notable was another Bristol merchant, John Whitson, who, on his death, bequeathed the parish of Burnett in trust to found a school for the orphaned daughters of Bristol's aldermen and merchants, where "the said children to go and be apparelled in red". Thus was founded the country's oldest surviving girls' school, Red Maids School.
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