Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

Sheela na gigs are semi-erotic stone carvings or sculptures of female figures standing or sitting in such a way that their genitals are on ...

Burnham-on-Sea has had three lighthouses in the past.  The story goes that c1750 the wife of a Burnham fisherman placed a candle in a win...

From the 8th century onwards in England a tenth of every farmer's produce had to be given to the local church to pay for its upkeep and ...

The Observer Corps was set up in 1925 but had its roots in the First World War.  The need for an organised early warning system was recogni...

Avishays or Avishayes House (it seems to be spelt both ways in different sources) is located in the parish of Chaffcombe about half a mile ...

One evening in October 2001 George Caton was using a mechanical digger to create a new access road behind Mill Farm at Lopen near Ilminste...

In 1938 construction of a massive underground concrete bomb proof bunker began in the garden of the Westminster Bank in Fore Street, Chard. ...