Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

Frederick Edward Weatherly, songwriter and barrister, was born at 7 Wood Hill (now 63 Woodhill Road) in Portishead on 4th October 1848.  He ...

 In East Street, Banwell there is a building which housed the town’s fire engine from the late 19th century until the 1980s.  The inscriptio...

Black Nore Lighthouse was built on a coastal outcrop at Portishead by Trinity House in 1894.  Its purpose was to be a navigation aid for shi...

Ralegh's Cross was erected at a crossroads c1425/6 probably to mark the boundary of the Raleigh family's Nettlecombe estate and pos...

 John Locke is regarded as possibly the most influential English language philosopher and political theorist. His works lie at the foundati...

Monk’s Steps or St Kew’s Steps , as they are also known, run from Woodspring Avenue near the top of the northern slope of Worlebury Hill in ...

  A memorial stone has recently been placed in Bridgetown Wood, by the side of the bridlepath, which runs between Bridgetown and Howetown Fa...

Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy. His father Giuseppe Marconi was Italian but his mother Annie Jameson came from County Wexford...

Edith Louisa Cavell was born on December 4th 1865 in the village of Swardeston in Norfolk, where her father Frederick was the vicar for 45 ...

St Michael's Church at Raddington is an unspoiled gem of a church.  There is no road access to it: it is only accessible by footpaths f...