Wednesday, 15 July 2020

St Andrew's Church, Lilstock

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The chancel is all that remains of St Andrew's Church in Lilstock .  The first church on the site was built before the Norman conquest. ...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2020

The Walford Murder, Dodington, July 1789

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John Walford was born in Over Stowey in 1762.  His parents were William and Ann Walford and they lived in Bincombe.  His father was a self-...
Wednesday, 17 June 2020

Norma Huxtable: Exmoor author

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Norma May Huxtable (nee Devereux) lived at Lower Chilcott Farm near Dulverton with her farmer husband Arthur and ran a bed and breakfast at...
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Monday, 1 June 2020

Ball Cottages, Buncombe Wood, Broomfield

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The ruins of a deserted farmstead called Ball or Ball's Cottages are located at head of an unnamed combe deep in Buncombe Wood, half a ...
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Sunday, 17 May 2020

The Port of Lilstock

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In around 1820 Sir John Acland of Fairfield House near Stogursey built a boathouse on the beach at Lilstock where boats from South Wales cou...
Monday, 4 May 2020

As if by magic, a pond has appeared!

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A large pond has recently appeared to the south west of the church at Cheddon Fitzpaine.  To be more accurate, it has actually reappeared - ...
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Saturday, 2 May 2020

Wiveliscombe's Children of the Great War Mosaic

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The Children of the Great War memorial mosaic is located in the Jubilee Gardens in West Street, Wiveliscombe.  8 panels of 12 decorative ti...