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The first mention of Huntspill is around 796 AD, when the area was granted to Glastonbury Abbey by Aethelmund, a nobleman under King Offa of Mercia . Huntspill was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Honspil'', meaning 'Huna's creek' possibly from the Old English personal name ''Huna'' and from the Celtic ''pwll''.1 An alternative origin is from ''Hun's Pill'' in Old English, meaning a port on a tidal inlet, or '' Pill '', belonging to a Saxon lord, or ''hun''. The mouth of the River Brue had an extensive harbour in Roman and Saxon times, before silting up in the medieval period. The village was flooded in the Bristol Channel Floods Of 1607 It is also the original home place of Michael Elkerton, an established designer-maker. REFERENCES SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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