Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

A very ordinary looking field in the village of Kenn near Clevedon was the site of what was possibly the last public hanging in England to t...

Ashcombe Gardens  were laid out by John Knight in around 1820 to the north of Simonsbath House and up the valley of the Ashcombe Stream. De...

Lynch Chapel of Ease  in the hamlet of West Lynch near the village of Bossington, was built c1530.  It was probably the chapel for the Manor...

Wellington Park is one of the town's best kept secrets. It opened in 1903 to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII.  It is a smal...

One day in around 1923 a stray spaniel wandered into Weston-super-Mare Railway Station.   He was adopted by the staff who worked there. They...

Antibiotics are compounds produced by bacteria and fungi, which are capable of killing or inhibiting the growth of other microbial species. ...

I'm not referring to the marine mammals, but to man-made marine structures, which are not usually connected to the shore and which are u...

The Sham Castle was built on Bathampton Down to the east of Bath city centre by Richard James (or possibly Jones) for Ralph Allen in 1762....

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 ...