Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

The first 2 weeks of August 1952 were very wet in the south west of England. Then on afternoon and evening of 15th August 9 inches of rain f...

Stoney Littleton Long Barrow was built in the early Neolithic period, probably c3800-3400 BC.   It contained the remains of over a dozen me...

The first commercial brickyards were set up in Bridgwater at the end of the 17th century.  Local clay was used.  The clay at Chilton Trinity...

Most of the surviving medieval bench ends in Somerset churches date from the 15th and 16th centuries.  During this period seating was provid...