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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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Avonmouth Barrs
Court Bedminster Bedminster Down Bishopston
Bishopsworth Brislington Bristol
Clay Hill Clifton Coombe Dingle Downend
Emersons Green
Fishponds Frenchay Henbury
Henleaze Horfield Knowle
Lawrence Weston
Long Ashton Mangotsfield New Cheltenham Northville
Redfield Redland Sea Mills
Shirehampton Southmead St Annes Park Staple Hill Stapleton
Stoke Bishop Totterdown Westbury On Trym Westbury Park |
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