# Farmborough > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Farmborough > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Farmborough.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmborough > Source revision: 1346363340 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Not to be confused with [Farnborough](/source/Farnborough_(disambiguation)). **Farmborough** is a village and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish), 6 miles (9.7 km) south west of [Bath](/source/Bath,_Somerset) in [Somerset](/source/Somerset), England. It straddles both the [A39](/source/A39_road) and [A368](/source/A368_road) roads. The parish has a population of 1,312. ## History The Farmborough Hoard of [Iron Age](/source/Iron_Age) coins was found in the village in 1984 and is now in the [British Museum](/source/British_Museum).[1] The parish of Farmborough was part of the [Keynsham](/source/Keynsham_(hundred)) [Hundred](/source/Hundred_(county_subdivision)),[2] The village has historically been connected with the coal mines of the [Somerset coalfield](/source/Somerset_coalfield), but these are all now closed. ## Governance At the lower level of local government, Farmborough is a civil parish with a [parish council](/source/Parish_council_(England)) of 9 elected members.[3] At the upper level, Farmborough is in [Bath and North East Somerset](/source/Bath_and_North_East_Somerset), a [unitary authority](/source/Unitary_authority). For elections to the council, since 2019 it has been in Clutton & Farmborough [electoral ward](/source/Wards_and_electoral_divisions_of_the_United_Kingdom), which elects one member to the council. From 1999 to 2019, Farmborough was the name of one of the Bath and North East Somerset electoral wards; in addition to Farmborough parish, it covered a wider area north almost to [Keynsham](/source/Keynsham), with a population at the [2011 census](/source/United_Kingdom_Census_2011) of 2,505.[4] Historically, Farmborough was part of [Clutton Rural District](/source/Clutton_Rural_District) between 1894 and 1974,[5] and the [Wansdyke district](/source/Wansdyke_(district)) of the [county of Avon](/source/County_of_Avon) between 1974 and 1996.[6] Farmborough is represented in the [House of Commons](/source/British_House_of_Commons) of the [Parliament of the United Kingdom](/source/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom) as part of [North East Somerset and Hanham](/source/North_East_Somerset_and_Hanham). ## Demographics At the 2021 census, Farmborough had a population of 1,312 in 567 households. Census population of Farmborough parish Census Population Female Male Households Source 2001 1,103 549 554 448 [7] 2011 1,035 514 521 454 [8] 2021 1,312 666 646 567 [9] ## Church The [Church of All Saints](/source/Church_of_All_Saints,_Farmborough) dates from the 15th century and is a grade II* [listed building](/source/Listed_building).[10] In the 13th century [John Stafford](/source/John_Stafford,_Archbishop_of_Canterbury) who later became the [Archbishop of Canterbury](/source/Archbishop_of_Canterbury) was the rector of Farmborough.[11] ## Education Farmborough Church of England VC Primary School was built in 1857. In a 2024 Ofsted it was graded as 'good' with 'outstanding' for personal development. In 2007 the local community [pre-school playgroup](/source/Pre-school_playgroup) moved into an unused classroom at the school site[12] and a breakfast club was established to assist working parents to leave their children in a safe environment prior to school opening hours.[13] Author [Dick King-Smith](/source/Dick_King-Smith) once taught at the school.[14] ## Notable residents - [Anthony Head](/source/Anthony_Head), actor - Author [Dick King-Smith](/source/Dick_King-Smith) - [Charles Warrell](/source/Charles_Warrell), creator of the *[I-Spy](/source/I-Spy_(Michelin))* children's books; born in Farmborough in 1889[15] ## References 1. ["Farmborough"](https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?place=77198&plaA=77198-3-1). British Museum Collection. Retrieved 20 April 2015. 1. ["Somerset Hundreds"](http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/). GENUKI. Retrieved 15 October 2011. 1. ["Staff"](https://farmborough-pc.gov.uk/people/#councillors). *Farmborough Parish Council*. Retrieved 31 March 2026. 1. ["Ward population 2011"](http://www.ukcensusdata.com/farmborough-e05001944#sthash.wAgAu2ik.dpbs). Retrieved 8 March 2015. 1. ["Clutton RD through time | Census tables with data for the Local Government District"](https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10107775) 1. ["The Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080130105206/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1995/Uksi_19950493_en_1.htm). *HMSO*. Archived from [the original](http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1995/Uksi_19950493_en_1.htm) on 30 January 2008. Retrieved 9 December 2007. 1. ["Key Statistics"](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2001_ks). Office for National Statistics. ONSID 00HA019 (Farmborough parish) in Tables KS001 (Usual resident population) and KS016 (Household spaces and accommodation type). Retrieved 23 June 2025. 1. ["Key Statistics"](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2011_ks). Office for National Statistics. Parish E04000968 : Farmborough in Table KS101EW (Usual resident population) and Table KS105EW (Household composition). Retrieved 23 June 2025. 1. ["Parish Profiles"](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021_pp). *2021 United Kingdom census*. Office for National Statistics. GSS E04000968 (Farmborough parish) in tables PP001 (Number of Households) and PP002 (Sex). Retrieved 5 August 2024. 1. Dunning, Robert (2005). [*A Somerset Miscellany*](https://archive.org/details/somersetmiscella0000dunn/page/32). Tiverton: Somerset Books. pp. [32–33](https://archive.org/details/somersetmiscella0000dunn/page/32). ISBN 0-86183-427-5. 1. ["Farmborough playgroup"](http://www.findmyschool.co.uk/schooldetails.aspx?id=71308). Find my school 2008. Retrieved 4 March 2011. 1. ["Welcome to Farmborough Church of England VC Primary School"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110726172603/http://www.farmboroughprimary.ik.org/p_Home.ikml). Farmborough primary school. Archived from [the original](http://www.farmboroughprimary.ik.org/p_Home.ikml) on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2011. 1. King-Smith, Dick. *Chewing the Cud*. London: Penguin Books, 2001. p. 174-175. 1. Tucker, Nicholas (30 November 1995). ["Obituary: Charles Warrell"](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-charles-warrell-1584331.html). *The Independent*. Retrieved 27 November 2016. ## External links - [Map of Farmborough circa 1900](https://web.archive.org/web/20090107044252/http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/Maps/OS62htm/2002.htm) - [Farmborough Life - The community website for Farmborough village](http://www.farmborough.org.uk/) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Farmborough](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmborough) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmborough?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.