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Temple Cloud
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Temple Cloud is a village in the Chew Valley in Somerset on the A37 road. It is in the civil parish of Temple Cloud with Cameley and in the council area of Bath and North East Somerset. It is 10 miles from Bristol and 5 miles from the town of Midsomer Norton. The villages of Cameley and Clutton are nearby. The Temple in the place name possibly relates to the Knights Templar who held the manors of Cameley and Cloud around 1200. Cloud is thought to... Show more come from the personal name Cloda. It has been suggested that Cloud derives from the Old English ‘clud’ meaning rocky outcrop. There were several coal mines in and around the village as a part of the Somerset coalfield, but these have all since closed.
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