sentences:  Charlcombe is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name "Cerlecume", meaning in Old English "valley of the ceorls (freemen or peasants)".Langridge and Woolley were part of the hundred of Bath Forum, while the parish of Charlcombe was part of the hundred of Hampton.From about 1720 until the early 19th century Woolley was the site of a gunpowder mill.