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Exmoor National Park Authority". Everything Exmoor. Archived from the original on 9 November 2010 . Retrieved 13 November 2010.

Frome is a lovely town with charming cobbled streets and houses and shops on either side. It prospered during the Wool and Cloth industry, but this declined in the Industrial Revolution. Myers, Alec Reginald; Douglas, David Charles (1996). English Historical Documents 1327–1485. Routledge. p.560. ISBN 978-0-415-14369-1. Archived from the original on 28 May 2021 . Retrieved 6 June 2009. Modern local government in Somerset began in 1889, when an administrative county was created and Somerset County Council was established; Bath was administered separately as a county borough. In 1974 the county and council were abolished and replaced by two two-tier non-metropolitan counties, Somerset and Avon. [77] Somerset was governed by a reconstituted county council and six districts: Mendip, Sedgemoor, South Somerset, Taunton Deane and West Somerset. Taunton Deane was granted borough status that same year. Avon consisted of six districts, of which three were created from areas formerly part of Somerset: Woodspring, Wansdyke, and Bath. [78] The county is served by the regional Western Daily Press and local newspapers including the Weston & Somerset Mercury, the Bath Chronicle, Chew Valley Gazette, Somerset County Gazette, Clevedon Mercury Mendip Times, and the West Somerset Free Press. Television is provided by BBC West and ITV West Country, [140] while southwestern parts of the county can receive BBC South West. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Somerset, BBC Radio Bristol (in northern parts of the county), Heart West, and Greatest Hits Radio South West in Yeovil.

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This is a small civil parish, but it is home of Box Tunnel, where the Crown Jewels were hidden during WW2 and a 12th century church that was built on England’s second-largest Roman Villa. Limpley Stoke King Arthur and Glastonbury". Britain Express. Archived from the original on 23 November 2007 . Retrieved 23 October 2007. Public Records – Armed Forces; Assizes; Coroners; County Council; County Court; District authorities; Education; Government agencies; Hospital and Health Executive; Inland Revenue; Newspapers; Other; Petty Sessions; Probate; Quarter Sessions; Societies or voluntary organisations; Utilities Wells Cathedral School". Wells Cathedral School. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007 . Retrieved 18 December 2007. Charlesworth, George (1984). A History of British Motorways. London: Thomas Telford Limited. ISBN 0-7277-0159-2.

The North Somerset Levels basin, north of the Mendips, covers a smaller geographical area than the Somerset Levels; and forms a coastal area around Avonmouth. It too was reclaimed by draining. [63] [64] It is mirrored, across the Severn Estuary, in Wales, by a similar low-lying area: the Caldicot and Wentloog Levels. [64] Tourism in Somerset A Destination Management Plan 2015 - 2020". Visit Somerset . Retrieved 13 April 2021. Somerset's local government records date to 1617, longer than those of any other county; a meeting of the Quarter Sessions held at Wells in that year decided that a room should be provided "for the safe keeping of the records of the Sessions". Primary, Secondary and Specialist Schools". Bath and North East Somerset Council. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007 . Retrieved 18 December 2007. Clarks ends shoemaking in Somerset". BBC Somerset. Archived from the original on 2 December 2007 . Retrieved 29 October 2007.Sedgemoor Battle and the Monmouth Rebellion Campaign". Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2007 . Retrieved 14 December 2007. This small village is the start of The Mendip Way, a 30-mile hike that journeys through the Mendips to Frome in East Somerset. Somerset Rivers". Somerset Rivers. Archived from the original on 18 July 2010 . Retrieved 14 November 2010.

University of Bath. "Facts and figures". Archived from the original on 25 March 2015 . Retrieved 26 May 2015. There’s a Haven caravan park in Minehead, so it’s a fun place to stay in the summer months. Places to go in Somerset: Exmoor National Park Bathurst, David (2012). Walking the county high points of England. Chichester: Summersdale. pp.174–181. ISBN 978-1-84-953239-6.Taunton Stop Line". Pillboxes Somerset. Archived from the original on 28 October 2007 . Retrieved 25 October 2007. Somerset Records Office". The History of the Somerset Archives Service. Somerset Archives Service. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 24 September 2016.