Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

There is a Baptist burial ground located in an isolated position off Ham Hill Road at Five Ashes , which is half a mile to the north west ...

John Rouse Merriott Chard was born in Boxhill near Plymouth on 21st December 1847.  He was educated at grammar schools in Cheltenham and Pl...

In Horner Woods in West Somerset there is a footpath called Cat's Scramble, which leads uphill in a southerly direction from the village...

I have seen real wild bats, badgers, bunnies and hares in Somerset but I have not yet seen a beaver or a wild boar.  I found these creatures...

11 or 12 year old Mary Bridge was living with her family in Westonzoyland in July 1685 at the time of the defeat of the Duke of Monmouth a...

On 19th May 1680 Mrs Herring, the wife of a farm labourer in Isle Brewers, gave birth to conjoined twins .  They were joined together back ...

Between June and September 1645 seventy villagers in East Coker, including Archdeacon Helyar and the Vicar, died of plague. They were buried...

Burrow Mump is a natural hill of Mercia Mudstone, which rises dramatically from the flat landscape of the Somerset Moors at Burrowbridge, a...