Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

Trinity Close is a small cul-de-sac in Burnham-on-Sea.  Unremarkable for 11 months of the year, for the whole of the month of December it is...

Ashwick Grove House is a shadow of its former self.  In the late 18th century an existing house was altered and enlarged for the agricultura...

The Dwarf's House is located on Church Road in Bawdrip. There is very little written about it and no one seems to know why it is so sma...

Animal pounds were secure enclos ed areas where trespassing animals (usually cattle, horses, pigs or sheep) were impounded until their ow...

Lion Rock is located at the bottom of the west side of the limestone Cheddar Gorge behind the appropriately named Lion Rock Tearooms. Lio...

500 metres to the south of the hamlet of Moolham, 200 metres to the west of Moolham Lane, a mile west of Dowlish Wake and bounded on 2 sides...

A thatched hurdle stack s tands on Priddy Green.  It is a symbolic collection of wooden hurdles that were used to form the sheep pens at Pri...

Lorna Doone is a very lo ng no vel by R ichard D oddridge Blackmore (1825-1900), which was first published in 1869.  It is a romance set ...

Old Poor Law The concept of parochial poor relief dates back to the late 14th century but it was not until 1597 that legislation was passe...