Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

Stoates Mill was built in Anchor Street in Watchet in 1832 as a replacement for Little Silver Mill, which was further upstream.  It was leas...

Leighland Chapel was built in 1861-2 on the site of a medieval chapel.  It was designed by C.E. Giles and is dedicated to St Giles. The medi...

A mile to the west of Milverton, at the point where a restricted byway meets Quakinghouse Lane (grid reference ST635225), there is a small Q...

The Ashwick Theatre , which is also known as the Music Room, or more recently, the Green Room, is located at the Exmoor Pony Centre at Ashwi...

From the 1850s several suburban housing estates of elegant villas were built around Weston-super-Mare for middle class people looking for pe...

Standing Stones aren't particularly numerous in Somerset.  They are notoriously difficult to date and in many cases there is disagreemen...

Boundary Markers are usually made of stone, concrete or metal, so that they are durable.  People have been marking borders for centuries, i...