Meanings
- A village and civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4363).
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The Cheddar Valley branch bears sharply southwards away from the main line at Yatton and immediately becomes single track. It is level for 1½ miles as far as Congresbury (pronounced "Coomsbury"), a crossing station with a junction at the south end for the Wrington Vale Light Railway. (The railways were later closed and removed)
1961 May, Mark B. Warburton, “Yatton and its branches to Clevedon and Wells”, in Trains Illustrated, page 280
Origin
- Old EnglishCungresbyrġ
- EnglishCongresbury
From Old English Cungresbyrġ, the oblique form of Cungresburg.
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