Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

The Taunton Stop Line was built in 1940, when the UK government believed an invasion of Britain by Nazi Germany was imminent. The evacuatio...

There have been two Royal Navy vessels named HMS Dulverton: L3 was a Hunt-class destroyer launched in 1941.  She took part in many World Wa...

There is a tall grey granite memorial stone located on Brendon Common 500 metres to the east of the B3223 and 500 metres from the Somerset/D...

John Rouse Merriott Chard was born in Boxhill near Plymouth on 21st December 1847.  He was educated at grammar schools in Cheltenham and Pl...

Burrow Mump is a natural hill of Mercia Mudstone, which rises dramatically from the flat landscape of the Somerset Moors at Burrowbridge, a...

Brean Down is a headland, which juts out into the Bristol Channel at the eastern end of Bridgwater Bay.  It is composed of carboniferous li...