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A History of the County of Somerset - Volume V (Hardcover)
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A History of the County of Somerset - Volume V (Hardcover)
Series: Victoria County History
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The fifth volume of the history of Somerset contains the histories
of twenty-two parishes in the eastern part of the hundred of
Williton and Freemanors and of one parish, Holford, part of which
was in Whitley hundred. The parishes occupy a roughly triangular
area of western Somerset includ-ing the southern and eastern part
of the Brendon hills as far as the Devon border, the north-western
end of the Quantock ridge, the wide valley between them, and some
of the coastal strip to the north which faces the Bristol Channel.
Extensive grazing on the Hangman Grits of the Quantocks and the
slates of the Brendons was an important feature of the economy, and
the Quantocks still retain large tracts of uncultivated heath land.
Mining for copper on the Quantocks and for iron ore on the
Brendons, and quarrying limestone for burning in most parishes,
provided an important industrial element in the 18th and 19th
centuries beside an agrarian system which in the 17th century and
earlier had concentrated on sheep and cattle on the higher ground
and arable in the valleys and coastal strip. Cloth-making was of
significance in many parishes until the earlier 19th century. The
nucleated villages in the east of the area contrast with the
scattered pattern of Brendon settlement. Stogumber and St. Decumans
had Saxon minster churches; boroughs were formed in the Middle Ages
at Crowcombe, Nether Stowey, and Watchet. A castle was built at
Nether Stowey, a monastery in Old Cleeve parish. Williton emerged
as an urban centre in the 19th century. Among the large houses
featured are Nettlecombe Court, Orchard Wyndham, St. Audries, and
Court House, East Quantoxhead. The Acland-Hoods, the Carews, the
Luttrells, the Trevelyans, and the Wyndhams were prominent in land
ownership and government; also important in the local economy were
the 17th-century country shopkeepers selling figs and canary seed,
the seaweed burners and paper-makers of the 18th century, and the
shippers of grain, flour, and timber in the 19th.
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