Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

Alive and dead trees can sometimes look like people, faces or animals.  These are the ones I have come across so far while walking around So...

Barwick Park , which is located just to the south of Yeovil, has four impressive follies: Jack the Treacle Eater Rose Tower or Cone Fish...

Nunney Castle is hidden away in the middle of the village of Nunney.  It is ruined but is very picturesque, as it is encircled by a water f...

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 ...