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Somerset is largely agricultural and is known for its cider making and cheese production. There are however some interesting towns to visit
and pleasant walks to be found.
Click on the headings to find out more:
The town of Wells takes its name from three springs near the medieval Bishop's Palace. It pretty much is still a medieval town with a
very beautiful cathedral. It was built in several stages from 1180 to 1508 and incorporates various Gothic architectural styles.
The Mendip Hills are a ridge of limestone hills in northern Somerset. They're gentle walking hills and most dramatic on
the southern side where Cheddar Gorge cuts through the landscape.
Cheddar Gorge is also home to the world-famous cheese. While many countries now produce their own styles of cheddar, this is
where it all started, and you can visit the Cheddar Gorge Cheese Factory for a taste and to see the cheese-maker in action.
T.S. Eliot, whose forebears came from the pleasant village of East Coker, commemorated the fact in a poem called East Coker. The ashes of the
poet are interred in the church. The mariner, William Dampier (the first Englishman to set eyes on Australia) was born here. His 1615 baptism
is in the parish register and his boyhood home was Hymerford House, near the stream at the north end of the village.
Glastonbury is only a small town but worth a visit if not just out of curiosity. It's Britain's New Age capital full of mystical delights.
Have your palm, cards or runes read, buy crystals, take in mystic springs or visit the alleged burial place of King Arthur and Lady Guinevire.
It's a rewarding day, even for sceptics.
Glastonbury is also the home of the largest music/rock festival in Britain & Europe, (24/25/26th June 2005) with over 300,000 tickets selling out in hours within release every year. Don't knock it if you have not tried it - although it is sometimes a trial of 'mud and music' - it is legendary the world over, but tickets are like gold dust - Glastonbury tickets on ebay are known to sell at 100 times the original price...
Norton St Philip is an unexceptional village but boasts a famous medieval inn, The George. Parts of it are 700 years old and the diarist,
Samuel Pepys, ate a meal there over 300 years ago and reported that he was 'quite satisfied'.
Priddy, another little village boasts that Jesus Christ visited there as a young man, travelling with his merchant uncle,
Joseph of Arimathea.
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