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2 days ago · During the first two centuries of the Saxon conquest, Somerset was a borderland between the Saxons and the Britons, but from the 7th century Somerset formed the westernmost part of the Kingdom of Wessex.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 3, 2024 · For many people, Somerset is a county passed through rather than visited. Largely rural and quiet, Somerset is the gateway to the West Country linking popular Hampshire and Wiltshire to the peninsula of Devon and Cornwall.
5 days ago · INTRODUCTION. THE PARISHES surveyed within this volume were all significantly affected by that area of low-lying moorland now commonly known as the Somerset Levels, (fn. 1) here forming two wide valleys north and south of the Polden Hills.
6 days ago · The former was the district of settled peaceful life, and in it we have to include the area now called Somerset. The troops appear to have been soon withdrawn from this district, and with a few definite exceptions there probably was not a fort or fortress throughout the south of our island after the end of the first century.
4 days ago · The Somerset Levels are a coastal plain and wetland area of Somerset, England, running south from the Mendips to the Blackdown Hills. The Somerset Levels have an area of about 160,000 acres (650 km 2) and are bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to the south are drained by the River Parrett, and the areas to the north by the rivers Axe and Brue.
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- Somerset Levels and Moors
6 days ago · A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 4 Covers the Crewkerne and South Petherton hundreds, and the village of Martock, all in the south of the county. Victoria County History - Somerset .
May 12, 2024 · The term “Sumorsǣte” was derived from “Sumortūnsǣte,” meaning “the people living at or dependent on Sumortūn (Somerton).” This name reflects the historical connection between the people of Somerset and the town of Somerton.
