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History of Somerset

The Somerset Levels, and specifically the dry points such as Glastonbury and Brent Knoll, have a long history of settlement, and are known to have been settled by mesolithic hunters. The caves of the Mendip Hills were settled during the neolithic period and contain extensive archaeological sites. There are numerous Iron Age Hill Forts, some of which were later reused in the Dark Ages, such as Cadbury Castle. Somerset, like Dorset to the south, held the Saxon invasion back for over a century, remaining a frontier between the Saxons and the Romano-British and Celts. The first known use of the name Somersæte was in 845 after the region fell to the Saxons. After the Norman Conquest the county was divided into 700 fiefs, and large areas were owned by the crown.

 

In the English Civil War Somerset was largely Royalist, unlike neighbouring Wiltshire. In 1685 the Monmouth Rebellion was played out in Somerset and neighbouring Dorset. The rebels landed at Lyme Regis and traveled north hoping to capture Bristol and Bath, but were defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor.

 

The traditional northern boundary of the county was the River Avon, but this has crept southwards, with the creation and expansion of the City of Bristol. In 1974 a large part of northern Somerset was removed to form the southern half of the County of Avon. Avon has now been abolished, and North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset have reverted to Somerset for ceremonial purposes, but are administratively independent for local government purposes.

 

Somerset contains England's oldest prison still in use, in the small town of Shepton Mallet, and the world's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track

 

Places of interest

Barrington Court 

Bath Abbey

Bridgwater-Taunton Canal 

Bristol Channel

Burrow Hill Cider Farm

Cadbury Castle 

Cheddar Gorge  

Chew Valley Lake 

Clatworthy Reservoir 

Cleeve Abbey

Clevedon Court 

Clifton Suspension Bridge

Colridge Cottage Netherstowey 

County Ground, Taunton 

Dunster Castle 

East Somerset Railway 

Ebbor Gorge 

Exmoor 

Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton 

Fussell Iron Works

Fyne Court 

Gartell Light Railway 

Georgian Bath

Glastonbury Abbey

Glastonbury Tor 

Hadspen House

Ham Hill 

Haynes International Motor Museum 

Holnicote Estate 

 Kennet and Avon Canal 

King John's Hunting Lodge Axbridge

Lytes Cary Manor 

Mendip Hills 

Minehead

Montacute House  

Muchelney Abbey

Porlock

Priest's House Muchelney 

Prior Park Bath 

Quantock Hills AONB 

Radstock Museum

River Avon, Bristol 

River Chew

Roman Baths Bath 

Selworthy

Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway

Somerset Levels 

Stanton Drew  stone circle

Stembridge Tower Mill 

Taunton Stop Line

Tintinhull Gardens 

Treasurer's House Martock  

Tyntesfield 

Watchet

Wells Cathedral

West Somerset Railway 

Wimbleball Reservoir 

Wookey Hole

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