Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

Hannah More , writer and philanthropist, was born in Fishponds, Bristol on 2 nd February 1745.  Her father Joseph More was a schoolmaster a...

The town of Clevedon has connections to two of England’s best known poets.   Poets’ Walk is a popular footpath which runs along the coast a...

Thomas Poole was born in Nether Stowey on 14th November 1766.  His father Thomas was a tanner and farmer.  He wanted his son to carry on hi...

Some of Britain's most famous poets have connections to Somerset: Siegfried Sassoon and T.S. Eliot are buried in Somerset.  Samuel ...