Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

Pinkery Pond is an artificial lake, which was created c1830 by damming the headwaters of the River Barle with a massive stone and earth dam...

The remains of a small chapel can be seen at the appropriately named Chapel Cross on a minor road between Luccombe and Horner (but closer t...

There is a small memorial in Horner Wood  to a " Staghound Recorder" who was " killed here September 10th 1882 ".   I h...

As the population of Britain grew during the 19th century, the Church of England, Roman Catholic Church and non-conformist denominations nee...

Swildon's Hole is the longest cave on the Mendips, both in terms of total passage length (c.9,144 metres) and the distance from the ent...

By the mid 16th century it was recognised that most roads in England were in a very poor state of repair and that many of them were impassab...