Places to see in ( Ilminster - UK )
Places to see in ( Ilminster - UK )
Ilminster is a town and civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the town now lies just east of the junction of the A303 and the A358. The parish includes the village of Peasmarsh and the hamlet of Sea.
lminster is mentioned in documents dating from 725 and in a Charter granted to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 km) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is also mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre meaning 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle and mynster. By this period Ilminster was a flourishing community and was granted the right to hold a weekly market, which it still does. Ilminster was part of the hundred of Abdick and Bulstone.
In 1645 during the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of a skirmish between parliamentary troops under Edward Massie and Royalist forces under Lord Goring who fought for control of the bridges prior to the Battle of Langport. The town contains the buildings of a sixteenth-century grammar school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which acts as the town's art gallery and concert hall. There is also a Gospel Hall.
Ilminster is close to the River Isle and the A303 road. Along with the rest of South West England, Ilminster has a temperate climate which is generally wetter and milder than the rest of the country. The annual mean temperature is approximately 10 °C (50.0 °F).
Ilminster takes its name from the River Isle and its large church of St Mary, which is known as The Minster. The Hamstone building dates from the 15th century, but was refurbished in 1825 by William Burgess and the chancel restored in 1883. Further restoration took place in 1887-89 and 1902. Among the principal features are the Wadham tombs; those of Sir William Wadham and his mother, dated 1452 and Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham 1609 and 1618.
Ilminster used to have a station on the Chard Branch Line but this closed in 1962. There were also some sidings, to allow trains going in opposite directions to pass each other. minster lies just East of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) and the A358 (Taunton to Chard and Axminster). The B3168 runs through the middle of the town and is used as a bypass. There have been concerns of the safety of roads in Ilminster .
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Located on a picturesque country lane, this award-winning bed and breakfast has been rated 4 stars with Gold and Breakfast award by VisitEngland. It features a private garden with fruit trees, a pond, and views up to Windmill Hill. It is 10 minutes from Junction 25 of the M5, with easy access to the beaches of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Just minutes from the Blackdown Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural beauty, walkers will find a variety of picturesque routes and trails around Somerset Bed and Breakfast. You can visit the historic houses and charming gardens that fill the surrounding countryside.
Somerset B&B has a spacious double room and a large suite, both of which retain original features like old wooden beams. Each has a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, and comes with facilities for making tea and coffee.
Each morning, you can enjoy an award winning breakfast made from high-quality local produce. Included in the rate is a luxury continental breakfast, although The Suite has the option of an extensive cooked menu at an additional charge.
Places to see in ( Langport - UK )
Places to see in ( Langport - UK )
Langport is a small town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 5 miles west of Somerton in the South Somerset district. The parish has a population of 1,081. The parish includes the hamlets of Bowdens and Combe. Langport is contiguous with Huish Episcopi, a separate parish which includes much of the town's outskirts.
Langport (old forms are Langeberga, Langeport) consists of two parts, one on the hill and one by the river. The former owed its origin to its defensible position, and the latter its growth to its facilities for trade on the chief river of Somerset.[2] Its name looks like Anglo-Saxon for long port, but it may well be long market place which could have been on the causeway which is now Bow Street. Many of the houses in Bow Street tilt backwards due to settlement of the land behind the causeway. It is speculated that Langport is the place mentioned in old Welsh sources as Llongborth = Ship-port, where the Battle of Llongborth happened. Longphort is a term used in Ireland for a Viking ship enclosure or shore fortress, using an identical etymology. Langport was previously also known as Langport Eastover, with the part on the western bank being Langport Westover, now known just as Westover. Langport is on the ancient way from Glastonbury to Taunton.
Langport could well have been important during the Roman occupation as there were several villas in the vicinity. It was one of the forts listed in the Burghal Hidage indicating its strategic position to King Alfred, as well as being close to the royal centre of Somerton. In 1086 according to Domesday Book it had 34 resident burgesses and was worth the large sum of £79-10s-7d. The parish of Combe was part of the Kilmersdon Hundred, while Langport Eastover was within the Hundred of Pitney.
Langport lies on the east bank of the River Parrett, below the point where that river is joined by the River Yeo (Ivel). There is a causeway across the moor and an important bridge over the river. Below Langport the Parrett is tidal. The rivers flow from the southern hills through Thorney Moor and Kings Moor, through a gap between the upland areas around Somerton and Curry Rivel, onto the Somerset Levels through which it flows past Bridgwater to the Bristol Channel. During the winter the low-lying areas around Langport are sometimes flooded. Langport Railway Cutting is a Geological Conservation Review site where Gravels are exposed which show scour-and-fill structures consistent with braided stream deposition from the Pleistocene age.
Two buildings in the town, the Tudor House and The Warehouse in Great Bow Yard, have been restored by the Somerset Buildings Preservation Trust. Close to All Saints Church, an archway crosses the road, bearing a Perpendicular building known as The Hanging Chapel. After serving this purpose it housed first the grammar school (founded 1675), then the Quekett museum, named after John Thomas Quekett (1815–61) the histologist, a native of the town, whose father was master of the school. The hanging chapel afterwards became a masonic hall.
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York Minster is a cathedral in York, North Yorkshire, England, UK. It is one of the world’s most magnificent cathedrals. It has been at the centre of Christianity in the north of England since the 7th century and today remains a thriving church rooted in the daily offering of worship and prayer. The Minster was built for the glory of God.
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A Mattys drive with us production Somerset edition 05/02/22 Ilminster real time West Country England
Update 15/01/2022
Matty returned to school on the 10th January, Mike and I are still Isolating and Matty’s bubble at school Is small. We hope to get to Easter without Illness. Matty Is still keeping an activity diary.
Welcome to Matty’s diaries. Matty is a 15 year old complex character from the English Riviera who just so happens to be my son. Matty started time-lapsing and recording at the beginning of his isolation in March 2020. I have no idea where the idea came from, he just grabbed his IPad one day and started recording his jigsaw progress. This then expanded to diamond paintings, Lego and then our drives out. They became a way of Matty giving his news to loved ones and school friends who he no longer saw. As of today 16.10.2021 writing this update we have been isolating/Shielding 589 days so far. Matty’s just had his first vaccine and we hope to get him back to school in January once staff have retrained. Wrap around care is just me (Tracey) and Mattys dad Mike. I do the waking night shifts and sleep in the morning, this has given me hours of lonely time during the night to edit Matty’s creations and try and make them watchable. It’s almost become a therapy for Matty and I. I’m not going to list Matty’s health record but take away the obvious artificial airway he actually has more complex issues you can’t see. He is really a very innocent, unworldly 4-5 year old who thrives on routine and positive praise. So please be kind, we never imagined that anyone other than family would ever see the videos and to be honest the family stopped watching and commenting a long long time ago. However we have made some lovely YouTube friends who have been such a huge part of Matty’s shielding life. Each day Matty checks his comments to look for his regular viewers who he has come to rely on. They make him happy. Matty cannot reply to comments independently so as much as he reads them every night, I reply with him once or twice a week. We are grateful.
Matty’s drives are split in to smaller parts which makes them easier to find when he sends his weekly links to his class mates.
At this moment in time Matty is home schooled 5 mornings a week for 2 hours by his favourite TA from school, this stops and starts depending on Matty’s wellbeing and on covid/illness in school. This takes place In the garden or behind perspex to keep matty safe. The school have been amazing and we are very lucky.
Any questions please just ask me, I’m happy to answer. We travel within a 2 hour radius of Torbay and are happy to drive somewhere on request, it gives Matty a task and he loves a task.
Matty is in the van with headphones on watching/Listening to his beloved carnival dvds. It’s his happy place, the only place he doesn’t tic, rock, pick and pace. It’s also the closest Mike and I get to down time as Matty will be relaxed and not have any anxiety.
At the moment we stay in the van driving and people watching, rarely get out, Matty in general refuses to. We can be out for 3 - 4 hours on a longer drive so we purchased a Porto loo which is a bucket with a lid. Does the job and keeps Matty safe. It really is the basics and smallest things that are keeping us plodding along until we can be with loved ones again.
Seriously be kind please, we really are just winging it and I’m so exhausted that negative stuff effects me, it shouldn’t but it does.
Anyway stay safe, we hope you like our little videos, but if not that’s fine. We made them for Matty so as long as he is happy, life is good.
We watch the videos on tv everyday that we are stuck at home Which Is 90% of the time, they show us the outside world. So not for critics just for us to enjoy and reminisce and share with like minded souls.
🥰🥰🥰
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Places to see in ( Yeovil - UK )
Places to see in ( Yeovil - UK )
Yeovil is a town and civil parish in south Somerset, England. The town of Yeovil lies within the local district of South Somerset and the Yeovil parliamentary constituency, situated at the southern boundary of Somerset, 130 miles (210 km) from London, 40 miles (64 km) south of Bristol and 30 miles (48 km) from Taunton.
In the 20th century it developed into a centre of the aircraft and defence industries, which made it a target for bombing in the Second World War, with one of the largest employers being Westland Aircraft. Additionally, the Fleet Air Arm has a station RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron), the primary base of the Royal Navy's Westland Wildcat and Westland EH101 helicopters, several miles north of the town and is a major local employer (Ministry of Defence). Several other manufacturing and retail companies also have bases in the town. Plans have been proposed for various regeneration projects in the town.
Yeovil Country Park, which includes Ninesprings, is one of several open spaces in the town. There are a range of educational, cultural and sporting facilities. Religious sites include the 14th-century Church of St John the Baptist. It is on the A30 and A37 roads and has two railway stations on two separate railway lines. Yeovil Pen Mill is on the Bristol to Weymouth line served by Great Western Railway services, whilst Yeovil Junction is on the London Waterloo to Exeter line served by South Western Railway. There is also a small railway museum.
Yeovil is situated at the southern boundary of Somerset, close to the border with Dorset, 130 miles (209 km) from London, 40 miles (64 km) south of Bristol and 30 miles (48 km) from Taunton. It lies in the centre of the Yeovil Scarplands, a major natural region of England. The suburbs include: Summerlands, Hollands, Houndstone, Preston Plucknett, Penn Mill, New Town, Hendford, Old Town, Forest Hill, Abbey Manor, Great Lyde. Outlying villages include East Coker, West Coker, Hardington, Evershot, Halstock, Stoford, Barwick, Sutton Bingham, Mudford and Yetminster. Other nearby villages include Bradford Abbas, Thornford Corscombe, Montacute (where one will find Montacute House), and Pendomer. The village of Brympton, now almost a suburb of Yeovil, contains the medieval manor of Brympton d'Evercy. Tintinhull is also a village close to Yeovil featuring the National Trust owned Tintinhull House and Gardens.
One of the symbols of Yeovil is Jack the Treacle Eater, a folly consisting of a small archway topped by a turret with a statue on top. This is actually located in the village of Barwick, just to the south of the town. The hamstone Abbey Farm House was built around 1420 by John Stourton II, known as Jenkyn, and the associated Abbey Barn dates from the same period.
Hendford Manor in the centre of the town was built around 1720 and has since been converted into offices. It is a Grade II* listed building. Newton Surmaville is a small park and house which is also known as Newton House. It was built between 1608 and 1612, for Robert Harbin, a Yeovil merchant. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.
Yeovil has two theatres; The Octagon, and The Swan, a ten-screen cinema and 18-lane ten-pin bowling alley. Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides local health services. The Yeovil Railway Centre is a small railway museum at Yeovil Junction. It was created in 1993 in response to British Rail's decision to remove the turntable from Yeovil Junction. Approximately 0.25 miles (400 m) of track along the Clifton Maybank spur is used for demonstration trains.
The town has two railway stations on two separate railway lines. Yeovil Pen Mill is on the Bristol to Weymouth line served by Great Western Railway services, whilst Yeovil Junction is on the London Waterloo to Exeter line served by South Western Railway. Yeovil has bus services provided by First West of England, First Hampshire & Dorset, Nippy Bus, Nordcat , South West Coaches, Stagecoach South West and Damory Coaches along with coach services from National Express, Berry's Coaches and South West Tours.
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A Mattys drive with us Somerset edition 05/02/22 Newtown - Ilminster real time West Country roads UK
Update 15/01/2022
Matty returned to school on the 10th January, Mike and I are still Isolating and Matty’s bubble at school Is small. We hope to get to Easter without Illness. Matty Is still keeping an activity diary.
Welcome to Matty’s diaries. Matty is a 15 year old complex character from the English Riviera who just so happens to be my son. Matty started time-lapsing and recording at the beginning of his isolation in March 2020. I have no idea where the idea came from, he just grabbed his IPad one day and started recording his jigsaw progress. This then expanded to diamond paintings, Lego and then our drives out. They became a way of Matty giving his news to loved ones and school friends who he no longer saw. As of today 16.10.2021 writing this update we have been isolating/Shielding 589 days so far. Matty’s just had his first vaccine and we hope to get him back to school in January once staff have retrained. Wrap around care is just me (Tracey) and Mattys dad Mike. I do the waking night shifts and sleep in the morning, this has given me hours of lonely time during the night to edit Matty’s creations and try and make them watchable. It’s almost become a therapy for Matty and I. I’m not going to list Matty’s health record but take away the obvious artificial airway he actually has more complex issues you can’t see. He is really a very innocent, unworldly 4-5 year old who thrives on routine and positive praise. So please be kind, we never imagined that anyone other than family would ever see the videos and to be honest the family stopped watching and commenting a long long time ago. However we have made some lovely YouTube friends who have been such a huge part of Matty’s shielding life. Each day Matty checks his comments to look for his regular viewers who he has come to rely on. They make him happy. Matty cannot reply to comments independently so as much as he reads them every night, I reply with him once or twice a week. We are grateful.
Matty’s drives are split in to smaller parts which makes them easier to find when he sends his weekly links to his class mates.
At this moment in time Matty is home schooled 5 mornings a week for 2 hours by his favourite TA from school, this stops and starts depending on Matty’s wellbeing and on covid/illness in school. This takes place In the garden or behind perspex to keep matty safe. The school have been amazing and we are very lucky.
Any questions please just ask me, I’m happy to answer. We travel within a 2 hour radius of Torbay and are happy to drive somewhere on request, it gives Matty a task and he loves a task.
Matty is in the van with headphones on watching/Listening to his beloved carnival dvds. It’s his happy place, the only place he doesn’t tic, rock, pick and pace. It’s also the closest Mike and I get to down time as Matty will be relaxed and not have any anxiety.
At the moment we stay in the van driving and people watching, rarely get out, Matty in general refuses to. We can be out for 3 - 4 hours on a longer drive so we purchased a Porto loo which is a bucket with a lid. Does the job and keeps Matty safe. It really is the basics and smallest things that are keeping us plodding along until we can be with loved ones again.
Seriously be kind please, we really are just winging it and I’m so exhausted that negative stuff effects me, it shouldn’t but it does.
Anyway stay safe, we hope you like our little videos, but if not that’s fine. We made them for Matty so as long as he is happy, life is good.
We watch the videos on tv everyday that we are stuck at home Which Is 90% of the time, they show us the outside world. So not for critics just for us to enjoy and reminisce and share with like minded souls.
🥰🥰🥰
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Places to see in ( Broadway - UK )
Places to see in ( Broadway - UK )
Broadway is a large village and civil parish within the Cotswolds, located in the county of Worcestershire, England. Broadway is situated in the far southeast of Worcestershire and very close to the Gloucestershire border, midway between the towns of Evesham and Moreton-in-Marsh.
Often referred to as the Jewel of the Cotswolds, Broadway village lies beneath Fish Hill on the western Cotswold escarpment. The broad way is the wide grass-fringed main street, centred on the Green, which is lined with red chestnut trees and honey-coloured Cotswold limestone buildings, many dating from the 16th century.
Broadway is known for its association with the Arts and Crafts movement, and is situated in an area of outstanding scenery and conservation. The wide High Street is lined with a wide variety of shops and cafes, many housed in listed buildings. The village is overlooked by Broadway Hill, the highest point in the northern Cotswolds at 1,024 ft (312 m) above sea level, which is popular with hill walkers.
Today, Broadway is a centre for arts and antiques and serves as a natural base from which to explore the Cotswolds or see the horse racing during the busy Cheltenham Gold Cup week. Tourism is important – the village is well-served with hotels, including the Broadway Hotel, Russell's a restaurant with rooms, the 1600s Cotswold inn the Lygon Arms, a caravan site, holiday cottages, bed and breakfast lodges, old pubs including the Swan Inn and Crown & Trumpet, shops, restaurants and tea rooms.
Local attractions include the Gordon Russell Museum (celebrating the work of the 20th-century furniture maker Sir Gordon Russell MC), the Ashmolean Museum Broadway displaying objects from the 17th to the 21st centuries in 'Tudor House' a former 17th-century coaching inn, the 65-foot (20 m) high Broadway Tower on its hilltop site in the Broadway Country Park, Chipping Campden, Snowshill village, Snowshill Manor (owned by the National Trust), horse riding and, for the many ramblers, the Cotswold Way.
Broadway was once served by a railway line, a relative latecomer in British railway history, opened in 1904 by the Great Western Railway and running from Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham, part of a main line from Birmingham to the South West and South Wales. Broadway railway station along with almost all others on this section closed in 1960. Thus, although Broadway has a railway station site and a Station Road, it is no longer served by National Rail services. The nearest railway stations are Evesham, Honeybourne and Moreton-in-Marsh, on the main line train service running between Hereford and London Paddington station and on the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester.
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I love castles and I love ruins. Join me as we explore two abbeys that just about survived the dissolution of the monasteries.
Rievaulx Abbey /riːˈvoʊ/ ree-VOH is a Cistercian abbey in Rievaulx, situated near Helmsley in the North York Moors National Park, North Yorkshire, England. It was one of the great abbeys in England until it was seized under Henry VIII of England in 1538 during the dissolution of the monasteries. The wider site was awarded Scheduled Ancient Monument status in 1915 and the abbey was brought into the care of the Ministry of Works in 1917. The striking ruins of its main buildings are a tourist attraction, owned and maintained by English Heritage.
Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England. It is located approximately 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, near to the village of Aldfield. Founded in 1132, the abbey operated for 407 years, becoming one of the wealthiest monasteries in England until its dissolution, by order of Henry VIII, in 1539.
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Dillington House, Somerset
Dillington House dates back to the sixteenth century, and is the former home of Prime Minister Lord North.
In the early nineteenth century, the House was remodelled in the so-called Jacobethan style and is now rated Grade 2* by English Heritage. The Mews building was constructed in 1875, while 2009 saw the opening of The Hyde - a spectacular example of contemporary architecture, overlooking the surrounding countryside.
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Located in the county of East Sussex, and around seven miles northeast of Brighton, is the town of Lewes.
Geographically, Lewes is situated in a valley within the South Downs National Park, adjacent to the River Ouse (not to be confused with the River Ouse in Yorkshire, or the Great Ouse spanning Norfolk to Northamptonshire) around eight miles inland from the English Channel.
During the 9th century, Alfred the Great made Lewes a burh, i.e. fortified settlement to protect against the threat of Viking invasion. Following the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror granted Lewes and the surrounding area to William de Warenne. De Warenne was a Norman nobleman who fought in the Battle of Hastings, and was later made Earl of Surrey. He ordered the construction of Lewes Castle, which has the unusual quirk of having two mottes, i.e. mounds. De Warenne also founded Lewes Priory - a Cluniac priory which would ultimately be destroyed in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Lewes Castle was rebuilt in stone during the 12th century. Additions followed including towers from the 13th century and the Barbican Gate from the early 14th century.
In 1264 the Battle of Lewes took place. This occurred during the Second Barons' War of 1264 to 1267. On one side were the royalist forces of Henry III, while on the other were the barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester. Henry and Simon were brothers-in-law, with the latter having married Eleanor of England, sister of Henry III. The two had previously fallen out over this as, allegedly, Henry had not approved the marriage. The barons had become frustrated at Henry's leadership, with de Montfort emerging as their leader. In 1258 the Provisions of Oxford were written up, which limited the king's power arguably to a greater extent than Magna Carta. In 1261, the pope annulled the document which drove the barons to war with the king.
The battle itself saw de Montfort's army enter Lewes, attacking the castle. The castle's archers set most of the town on fire with flaming arrows. Henry withdrew to Lewes Priory. Shortly afterwards, a settlement was made, known as the Mise of Lewes. The terms are unknown as no surviving documents exist, but in the aftermath, de Montfort led a short-lived government. In 1265, Henry's son Prince Edward (future king Edward I) led the royalist forces in the Battle of Evesham, which concluded with the death and mutilation of de Montfort.
In 1541, as part of Henry VIII's annulment settlement with his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, a house in Lewes was gifted to Anne. Although Anne never actually lived there, the historic hall house itself operates as a museum, and is situated just under half a mile south of the high street.
In 1725 Richard Russell began his medical practice in Lewes. In the 1730s Russell began to prescribe seawater from nearby Brighton to his patients for medicinal purposes. This is seen by many as the genesis of the seaside resort.
From 1768 to 1774 Thomas Paine lived in Lewes. It was here that he penned some influential political writings that culminated in him receiving a letter of introduction from Benjamin Franklin, and Paine's subsequent emigration to the American Colonies. In 1776 he wrote a pamphlet arguing the case for American independence, predating the Declaration of Independence itself.
In 1846 the railway arrived in Lewes. Today, Lewes station is situated on the East Coastway Line with trains to Brighton taking just under 20 minutes, and trains to central London taking just over an hour.
One long-standing tradition of the town is Lewes Bonfire. Held on the 5th of November, a.k.a. Guy Fawkes Night, it marks the anniversary of Fawkes's failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Whilst this is a national event involving fireworks and a bonfire, Lewes takes it further. Its event involves a race involving flaming tar barrels, known as the barrel run, the procession of the martyrs' crosses symbolising the 17 protestant martyrs burned at the stake in Lewes during the reign of Mary I, and the burning of various effigies including Pope Paul V - the pope at the time of the Gunpowder Plot.
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Filmed: 13th June 2023
Link to the walk on Google Maps:
Filmed on a Sony FDR-AX700 with a Zhiyun Crane 2 and a Sony ECM-XYST1M Stereo Microphone.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 South Street
1:05 Cliffe High Street
4:23 River Ouse
4:31 Cliffe High Street
4:46 River Ouse
5:02 Cliffe High Street
5:21 High Street
6:33 Friars Walk
9:39 Lansdown Place
10:50 Station Street
12:38 High Street
13:20 Market Street
14:41 East Street
16:16 Eastgate Street
17:22 High Street
23:09 Castle Gate
27:25 High Street
33:10 St Anne's Terrace