Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

Watchet is a historic port and so it is no surprise that anchors have been used as decorations all over the town.  These are the anchors I ...

Thomas Poole was born in Nether Stowey on 14th November 1766.  His father Thomas was a tanner and farmer.  He wanted his son to carry on hi...

There is a tall grey granite memorial stone located on Brendon Common 500 metres to the east of the B3223 and 500 metres from the Somerset/D...

Simonsbath Tower is located in a field on the west side of the B3223, a mile to the north of Simonsbath at Great Ashcombe.  It is on the ea...

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. ...

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-...

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