[2] Paulton has a small hospital, doctors surgery, dentist, chemist, nursing home, library, public swimming pool, newsagent, travel agent, two convenience stores, a filling station, three takeaways, fire station, two pre-schools (Noahs Ark Preschool and Acorn Preschool), an infant school, and a junior school].

A licensed bar and restaurant: La Campagna was previously a public house known as The Winterfield Inn (which closed in 2015).

Until the mid-1980s, there was also The Queen Victoria, but this was demolished to make way for flats, and The Somerset Inn which closed in 2011, with the adjoining paddock the subject of an unsuccessful planning application since, which would have seen it turned into a 22 home housing estate.

There is another war memorial just outside the village, to the southwest, which commemorates the location where 23 men were killed on 17 September 1944 when the glider they were flying in crashed en route from R.A.F.

[3] During the reign of Edward III the lord of the manor was Sir John de Palton and his descendants.

[6] Much evidence of coal mining on the Somerset Coalfield still exists in and around the village, including a spoil tip known as "The Batch".

This canal carried the coal that fueled the Georgian development of Bath during most of the nineteenth century.

The council is also responsible for the public convenience in the Red Lion car park which is leased from B&NES.

These amenities are looked after by independent management committees with the parish council funding major capital works to the buildings.

Paulton is represented on the Bath and North East Somerset Council by two Labour Councillors, Liz Hardman and Grant Johnson.

The unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset was created in 1996, as established by the Local Government Act 1972.

[11] The parish is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of the North East Somerset and Hanham constituency.

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