Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

The airfield at RAF Culm Head was constructed in 1940-41.  It was initially called RAF Church Stanton .  It was the first of 3 airfields t...

In 1942 North Hill was taken into military control and it became the Minehead Armoured Vehicle Fighting Range .  It was one of five new tank...

Augustus Montague Toplady was a Church of England clergyman and hymn writer.  He was born at Farnham in Surrey on 4 th November 1740 but g...

 A 1.8 metre high standing stone of Dolomitic Conglomerate is currently situated on a patch of grass between the school and the parish churc...

  In 1903 Lady Emily Smyth, widow of Sir Greville Smyth (owner of the Ashton Court Estate) provided six hectares of land in Long Ashton so t...

Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff near Cardiff on 13 th September 1916. His parents, Harald and Sofie Dahl, were Norwegians and his father w...

St Peter's on the Quay is a small chapel sandwiched between the Old Ship Aground pub and the Echo Beach Cafe.  The building housing it ...

The idea of building a ship canal to link the English Channel to the Bristol Channel and thus cut out the long sea journey around Lands End,...

St Leonard's Chapel in Tivington  in the parish of Selworthy, was built in the 14th century as a chapel-of-ease. After the Dissolution o...