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East Coker is a village and civil parish in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England. Its nearest town is Yeovil, two miles (3.2 km) to the north. The village has a population of 1,667. [1] The parish includes the hamlets and areas of North Coker, Burton, Holywell, Coker Marsh, Darvole, Nash, Keyford as well as the southern ...
Oct 21, 2019 · Nobel Prize winner T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) wrote of a beautiful hamstone Somerset village in his poem 'East Coker', the second of his Four Quartets, finished in early-1940. He called it right. The farming village of narrow country lanes has a certain warmth, perhaps because of that amber-tinted stone, the nation's loveliest 'golden ...
The East Coker Society, a non-profit making organisation, was formed in 1975 to inspire an interest in all aspects of the village's heritage and to develop a sense of community within the village.
Feb 27, 2022 · A tiny village nestled in the rolling South Somerset countryside is immortalised in a Nobel-prize winning poem by renowned writer T.S. Eliot. Unassuming East Coker, near Yeovil, is the subject...
East Coker is a village and civil parish in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England. Its nearest town is Yeovil, two miles (3.2 km) to the north. The village has a population of 1,667.
- 802 hectares
- 49.6
- 214 people/km 2
- 1,718 (2021)
East Coker. This small village and civil parish in South Somerset was the inspiration of the second poem of T.S.Eliot’s ‘ The Four Quartets ’, and the famous line ‘In my beginning is my end.’.
The Parish. East Coker is a large Parish of natural beauty made up of several hamlets, a perfect example of the formation of a village dating back to Norman times, rich in history and fine architecture.
