Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

Wellsway (sometimes spelt Wells Way) Colliery was located in Westfield between Midsomer Norton and Radstock. It opened in around 1833 and wa...

John Lewis was born in Town Street, Shepton Mallet on 24th February 1836.  His father, who was also called John Lewis, was a cabinet maker ...

James "Jimmy" Kennedy was a prolific songwriter.  He wrote over 2,000 songs, 200 of which became worldwide hits.  He was born in O...

Albert William Tarr  was born in East Anstey in 1880.  At the time of his death in 1935, he was living in East Anstey with his widowed mothe...

In 2010 the Forestry Commission commissioned a tactile sculpture of a cross section of the underlying geology of the scarp slope of the Blac...

Safe clean drinking water is currently supplied to the whole of North Somerset, Bristol, South Gloucestershire and parts of Somerset, Bath ...

Henry Adams was born in Barton St David in about 1583.  He was a tenant farmer and farmed land in the village and in neighbouring Chartlon M...

On the evening of October 21st 1830  Charles Capell Hardwick , who lived and farmed at Hewish, was riding his horse back from Bristol market...

The small  village of Shurton near Stogursey has five interesting stone footbridges over Bayley's Brook, which runs through the village....

Bandstands are usually located in parks or on seafronts.  They are designed to provide shelter from the sun and rain for performing bands. ...