Dunster, the Glossary
Dunster is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, within the north-eastern boundary of Exmoor National Park.[1]
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- Ports and harbours of Somerset
- Villages in West Somerset
A roads in Zone 3 of the Great Britain numbering scheme
List of A roads in zone 3 in Great Britain starting west of the A3 and south of the A4 (roads beginning with 3).
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A39 road
The A39 is an A road in south west England.
Abbey
An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.
Abbot
Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions.
All Things Bright and Beautiful
"All Things Bright and Beautiful" is an Anglican hymn, also sung in many other Christian denominations.
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Ancient woodland
In the United Kingdom, ancient woodland is that which has existed continuously since 1600 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (or 1750 in Scotland).
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Apartment
An apartment (North American English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single storey.
Ashen faggot
The ashen faggot (also known as ashton fagot) is an old English Christmas tradition from Devon and Somerset, similar to that of the Yule log and related to the wassail tradition.
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Azores High
The Azores High also known as North Atlantic (Subtropical) High/Anticyclone or the Bermuda-Azores High, is a large subtropical semi-permanent centre of high atmospheric pressure typically found south of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean, at the Horse latitudes.
Bat's Castle
Bats Castle is an Iron Age hillfort at the top of a high hill in the parish of Carhampton south south west of Dunster in Somerset, England.
Bath Abbey
The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is a parish church of the Church of England and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England.
Bath, Somerset
Bath (RP) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, in England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths.
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Beach hut
A beach hut (also known as a beach cabin, beach box or bathing box) is a small, usually wooden and often brightly coloured, box above the high tide mark on popular bathing beaches.
Beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Holometabola.
Benedictines
The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.
Bishops Lydeard railway station
Bishops Lydeard railway station is a heritage railway station in the village of Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England.
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Black Ball Camp
Black Ball Camp is an Iron Age hillfort South West of Dunster, Somerset, England on the northern summit of Gallox Hill.
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Brexit
Brexit (portmanteau of "British exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU).
Bridgwater and West Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)
Bridgwater and West Somerset was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Ian Liddell-Grainger, a Conservative.
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Bristol Airport
Bristol Airport, at Lulsgate Bottom, on the northern slopes of the Mendip Hills, in North Somerset, is an international airport serving the city of Bristol, England, and the surrounding area.
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Bristol and Exeter Railway
The Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) was an English railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter.
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Bristol Channel
The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren, literal translation: "Severn Sea") is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales (from Pembrokeshire to the Vale of Glamorgan) and South West England (from Devon, Somerset to North Somerset).
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British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War
British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion (Operation Sea Lion) by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941.
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British Iron Age
The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.
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British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers.
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British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997.
Brown rat
The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also known as the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, wharf rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat and Norwegian rat, is a widespread species of common rat.
Building regulations in the United Kingdom
Building regulations in the United Kingdom are statutory instruments or statutory regulations that seek to ensure that the policies set out in the relevant legislation are carried out.
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Caput
Category:Latin words and phrases.
Castra
In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (castra) was a military-related term.
Cavalier
The term "Cavalier" was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier royalist supporters of Charles I of England and his son Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 –). It was later adopted by the Royalists themselves.
Cecil Frances Alexander
Cecil Frances Alexander (April 1818 – 12 October 1895) was an Anglo-Irish hymnwriter and poet.
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Celtic Way
The Celtic Way is a long-distance walk from West Wales, through South Wales and into Wessex and the West of England in the United Kingdom.
Cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.
Chester (placename element)
The English place-name Chester, and the suffixes -chester, -caster and -cester (old -ceaster), are commonly indications that the place is the site of a Roman castrum, meaning a military camp or fort (cf. Welsh caer), but it can also apply to the site of a pre-historic fort.
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Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.
Cleeve Abbey
Cleeve Abbey is a medieval monastery located near the village of Washford, in Somerset, England.
Cleeve, Somerset
Cleeve is a village and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. Dunster and Cleeve, Somerset are civil parishes in Somerset.
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Convection
Convection is single or multiphase fluid flow that occurs spontaneously due to the combined effects of material property heterogeneity and body forces on a fluid, most commonly density and gravity (see buoyancy).
Conygar Tower
The Conygar Tower in Dunster, Somerset, England was built in 1775 and has been designated as a Grade II listed building.
COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
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Cremation
Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.
Crown Estate
The Crown Estate is a collection of lands and holdings in the United Kingdom belonging to the British monarch as a corporation sole, making it "the sovereign's public estate", which is neither government property nor part of the monarch's private estate.
Cruciform
Cruciform is a term for physical manifestations resembling a common cross or Christian cross.
Cumulus cloud
Cumulus clouds are clouds that have flat bases and are often described as puffy, cotton-like, or fluffy in appearance.
Day trip
A day trip is a visit to a tourist destination or visitor attraction from a person's home, hotel, or hostel in the morning, returning to the same lodging in the evening.
Deanery
A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway.
Dissolution of the monasteries
The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.
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Diurnal motion
Diurnal motion is an astronomical term referring to the apparent motion of celestial objects (e.g. the Sun and stars) around Earth, or more precisely around the two celestial poles, over the course of one day.
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.
Dunster Butter Cross
The Butter Cross in Dunster within the English county of Somerset is a Grade II* listed building and scheduled monument.
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Dunster Castle
Dunster Castle is a former motte and bailey castle, now a country house, in the village of Dunster, Somerset, England.
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Dunster Dovecote
The Dovecote in Dunster, Somerset, England was probably built in the late 16th century.
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Dunster Museum & Doll Collection
The Dunster Museum & Doll Collection in Dunster, Somerset, England houses a collection of more than 800 dolls from around the world, based on the collection of the late Mollie Hardwick, who died in 1970 and donated her collection to the village memorial hall committee.
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Dunster Park and Heathlands
Dunster Park and Heathlands is a 466.6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, notified in 2000.
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Dunster Priory
Dunster Priory was established as a Benedictine monastery around 1100 in Dunster, Somerset, England.
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Dunster railway station
Dunster railway station is near Dunster, Somerset, England and is on the West Somerset Railway, a heritage railway.
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Dunster Working Watermill
Dunster Working Watermill (also known as Castle Mill) is a restored 18th century watermill, situated on the River Avill, close to Gallox Bridge, in the grounds of Dunster Castle in Dunster, Somerset, England.
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Earl of Carhampton
Earl of Carhampton was a title in the Peerage of Ireland.
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English Civil War
The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651.
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English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.
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Environmental health
Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health.
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Erica (plant)
Erica is a genus of roughly 857 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae.
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.
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Exeter Airport
Exeter Airport, formerly Exeter International Airport, is an international airport located at Clyst Honiton in East Devon, close to the city of Exeter and within the county of Devon, South West England.
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Exmoor
Exmoor is loosely defined as an area of hilly open moorland in west Somerset and north Devon in South West England.
Feudal barony of Dunster
The feudal barony of Dunster was an English feudal barony with its caput at Dunster Castle in Somerset.
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Fill dirt
Fill dirt (also called cleanfill, or just fill) is earthy material which is used to fill in a depression or hole in the ground or create mounds or otherwise artificially change the grade or elevation of real property.
Fire department
A fire department (North American English) or fire brigade (Commonwealth English), also known as a fire company, fire authority, fire district, fire and rescue, or fire service in some areas, is an organization that provides fire prevention and fire suppression services as well as other rescue services.
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First-past-the-post voting
First-preference plurality (FPP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner system of positional voting where voters mark one candidate as their favorite, and the candidate with the largest number of points (a '''''plurality''''' of points) is elected.
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Folly
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.
Gallox Bridge, Dunster
The Gallox Bridge in Dunster, Somerset, England dates from the 15th century.
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George Edmund Street
George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 – 18 December 1881), also known as G. E. Street, was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.
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Heath
A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.
Heath fritillary
The heath fritillary (Mellicta athalia) is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.
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Henry Fownes Luttrell (died 1780)
Henry Fownes Luttrell (born Henry Fownes; 1722 or 1723 – 30 October 1780), of Dunster Castle, Somerset, was High Sheriff of Somerset from 1754 to 1755 and a Member of Parliament for the borough of Minehead from 1768 to 1774.
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Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton
General Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton PC (7 August 1743 – 25 April 1821) was an Anglo-Irish politician and soldier, who both in public and private life attracted scandal.
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Heritage railway
A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.
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High Street
High Street is a common street name for the primary business street of a city, town, or village, especially in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth.
Hillfort
A hillfort is a type of fortified refuge or defended settlement located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.
Hillforts in Britain
Hillforts in Britain refers to the various hillforts within the island of Great Britain.
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Hobby horse
In folklore, a hobby horse is a costumed character that features in some traditional seasonal customs, processions and similar observances around the world.
House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Hundred (county division)
A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.
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Hundred of Carhampton
The Hundred of Carhampton is one of the 40 historical Hundreds in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, dating from before the Norman conquest during the Anglo-Saxon era although exact dates are unknown.
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Inheritance tax
International tax law distinguishes between an estate tax and an inheritance tax.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.
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Library
A library is a collection of books, and possibly other materials and media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions.
Listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.
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Local education authorities (LEAs) were defined in England and Wales as the local councils responsible for education within their jurisdictions.
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Local Government Act 1972
The Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.
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Long Wood Enclosure
Long Wood Enclosure is an enclosure which may have been a univallate Iron Age hill fort, in the West Somerset district of Somerset, England.
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Lord of the manor
Lord of the manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England and Norman England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate.
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Low-pressure area
In meteorology, a low-pressure area, low area or low is a region where the atmospheric pressure is lower than that of surrounding locations.
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Luttrell Arms
The Luttrell Arms in Dunster, Somerset, England was built in the late 15th century and is located in the centre of the medieval town of Dunster.
Macmillan Way West
The Macmillan Way West is a long-distance footpath in Somerset and Devon, England. Dunster and Macmillan Way West are Exmoor.
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Maerdy
Maerdy (Y Maerdy) is a village and community (and electoral ward) in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, and within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales, lying at the head of the Rhondda Fach Valley.
Margaret Fownes-Luttrell
Margaret Fownes-Luttrell (7 February 1726 – 13 August 1766) was a British heiress, the wife of Henry Fownes Luttrell.
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Market cross
A market cross, or in Scots, a mercat cross, is a structure used to mark a market square in market towns, where historically the right to hold a regular market or fair was granted by the monarch, a bishop or a baron.
Marketplace
A marketplace, market place, or just market, or mart is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods.
Martins Bank
Martins Bank was a London private bank, trading for much of its time under the symbol of “The Grasshopper”, that could trace its origins back to Thomas Gresham and the London goldsmiths, from which it developed into a bank known as Martin's Bank from 1890.
Member of parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.
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Met Office
The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office, is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service.
Middle school
A middle school, also known as intermediate school, junior high school, junior secondary school, or lower secondary school, is an educational stage between primary school and secondary school.
Minehead
Minehead is a coastal town and civil parish in Somerset, England. Dunster and Minehead are beaches of Somerset, civil parishes in Somerset, Exmoor and ports and harbours of Somerset.
National Lottery Heritage Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund, formerly the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), distributes a share of National Lottery funding, supporting a wide range of heritage projects across the United Kingdom.
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National Trust
The National Trust (Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol; Iontaobhas Náisiúnta) is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Nationalization
Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
Neighbourhood Watch (United Kingdom)
Neighbourhood Watch in the United Kingdom is the largest voluntary crime prevention movement covering England and Wales with upwards of 2.3 million household members.
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Nettlecombe, Somerset
Nettlecombe is a civil parish in the English county of Somerset. Dunster and Nettlecombe, Somerset are civil parishes in Somerset and villages in West Somerset.
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Non-metropolitan district
Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially "shire districts", are a type of local government district in England.
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Norman Conquest
The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.
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Parish council (England)
A parish council is a civil local authority found in England, which is the lowest tier of local government.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.
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Parochial church council
A parochial church council (PCC) is the executive committee of a Church of England parish and consists of clergy and churchwardens of the parish, together with representatives of the laity.
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Pier (architecture)
A pier, in architecture, is an upright support for a structure or superstructure such as an arch or bridge.
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Pinnacle
A pinnacle is an architectural element originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations.
Planning permission
Planning permission or building permit refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation), and sometimes for demolition, in some jurisdictions.
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Police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself.
Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
Primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).
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Priory
A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress.
Priory Church of St George, Dunster
The Priory Church of St George in Dunster, Somerset, England, is predominantly 15th-century with evidence of 12th- and 13th-century work.
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Pub
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.
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Public housing in the United Kingdom
Public housing in the United Kingdom, also known as council housing or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011 when the number of households in private rental housing surpassed the number in social housing.
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Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Rates (tax)
Rates are a type of property tax system in the United Kingdom, and in places with systems deriving from the British one, the proceeds of which are used to fund local government.
Recycling
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
Richard Phelps (artist)
Richard Phelps (1710–1785) was an 18th-century English portrait painter and designer.
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River Avill
The River Avill is a small river on Exmoor in Somerset, England. Dunster and river Avill are Exmoor.
Roman Britain
Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.
Rood screen
The rood screen (also choir screen, chancel screen, or jubé) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture.
Roundhead
Roundheads were the supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642–1651).
Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.
Scheduled monument
In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.
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Season
A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region.
Secondary school
A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.
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Shell keep
A shell keep is a style of medieval fortification, best described as a stone structure circling the top of a motte.
Signalling control
On a rail transport system, signalling control is the process by which control is exercised over train movements by way of railway signals and block systems to ensure that trains operate safely, over the correct route and to the proper timetable.
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Site of Special Scientific Interest
A site of special scientific interest (SSSI) in Great Britain, or an area of special scientific interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland, is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.
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Social services are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance towards particular groups, which commonly include the disadvantaged.
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Somerset
Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
Somerset Buildings Preservation Trust
The Somerset Buildings Preservation Trust (SBPT) works to save the architectural heritage of Somerset, England.
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Somerset Council
Somerset Council, known until 2023 as Somerset County Council, is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England.
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Somerset West and Taunton
Somerset West and Taunton was a local government district in Somerset, England, from 2019 to 2023.
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South West England
South West England, or the South West of England, is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom.
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South West England (European Parliament constituency)
South West was a combined constituency region of the European Parliament, comprising the South West of England and Gibraltar.
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Stogursey
Stogursey is a small village and civil parish in the Quantock Hills in Somerset, England. Dunster and Stogursey are civil parishes in Somerset and villages in West Somerset.
Taunton
Taunton is the county town of Somerset, England. Dunster and Taunton are civil parishes in Somerset.
Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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The Anarchy
The Anarchy was a civil war in England and Normandy between 1138 and 1153, which resulted in a widespread breakdown in law and order.
Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.
Timberscombe
Timberscombe is a village and civil parish on the River Avill south-west of Dunster, and south of Minehead within the Exmoor National Park in Somerset, England. Dunster and Timberscombe are civil parishes in Somerset, Exmoor and villages in West Somerset.
Tithe
A tithe (from Old English: teogoþa "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government.
Tithe Barn, Dunster
The Tithe Barn is a 14th-century tithe barn in Dunster, Somerset, England.
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Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.
Tourist attraction
A tourist attraction is a place of interest that tourists visit, typically for its inherent or an exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement.
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Trading Standards
Trading Standards are the local authority departments with the United Kingdom, formerly known as Weights and Measures, that enforce consumer protection legislation.
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United Kingdom constituencies
In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons.
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Valor Ecclesiasticus
The Valor Ecclesiasticus (Latin: "church valuation") was a survey of the finances of the church in England, Wales and English controlled parts of Ireland made in 1535 on the orders of Henry VIII.
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Veteran tree
A veteran tree is one that has ancient features but not the great age of an ancient tree, and is a tree of great cultural, landscape, or biodiversity value due to its ecological and habitat features.
Victorian restoration
The Victorian restoration was the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria.
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Walter Luttrell
Colonel Sir Geoffrey Walter Fownes Luttrell (2 October 1919 – 3 April 2007) was an English landowner in Somerset and a soldier who distinguished himself during the Second World War.
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Ward (electoral subdivision)
A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes.
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Waste collection
Waste collection is a part of the process of waste management.
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Waste management
Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
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Watermill
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.
West Somerset
West Somerset was a local government district in the English county of Somerset from 1974 to 2019.
West Somerset College
West Somerset College (is sometimes abbreviated to WSC and was previously known as West Somerset Community College prior to the college re-brand in September 2013) is a fairly large secondary school in Minehead, Somerset, England.
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West Somerset Railway
The West Somerset Railway (WSR) is a heritage railway line in Somerset, England.
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White British
White British is an ethnicity classification used for the indigenous White population identifying as English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Northern Irish, or British in the United Kingdom Census.
William de Mohun, 1st Earl of Somerset
William de Mohun of Dunster, Earl of Somerset (c. 1090 – c. 1155), 2nd feudal baron of Dunster, was a favourite of Empress Matilda and a loyal supporter of her in the war against King Stephen, during which he earned the epithet of the "Scourge of the West".
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William de Moyon
William I de Moyon (d. post 1090) (alias de Moion, also de Mohun), 1st feudal baron of Dunster in Somerset, was seigneur of Moyon in Normandy and became Sheriff of Somerset in 1086.
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Williton Rural District
Williton was a rural district in Somerset, England, from 1894 to 1974.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Yarn Market, Dunster
The Yarn Market in Dunster, Somerset, England was built in the early 17th century.
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2011 United Kingdom census
A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.
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See also
Beaches of Somerset
- Blue Anchor
- Brean
- Burnham-on-Sea
- Clevedon
- Dunster
- East Quantoxhead
- Kilve
- Lilstock
- Minehead
- Porlock
- Selworthy
- Weston-super-Mare
- Williton
Ports and harbours of Somerset
- Bleadon
- Blue Anchor
- Clevedon
- Combwich
- Dunball
- Dunster
- East Quantoxhead
- Highbridge, Somerset
- Kilve
- Langport
- Lilstock
- Minehead
- Pill, Somerset
- Porlock Weir
- Port of Bridgwater
- Portishead, Somerset
- Royal Portbury Dock
- Uphill
- Weston-super-Mare
- Wick St. Lawrence
Villages in West Somerset
- Allerford
- Bicknoller
- Blue Anchor
- Brompton Ralph
- Brompton Regis
- Brushford, Somerset
- Carhampton
- Clatworthy
- Cockercombe
- Crowcombe
- Culbone
- Cutcombe
- Dunster
- East Quantoxhead
- Elworthy
- Exford, Somerset
- Exton, Somerset
- Holford
- Huish Champflower
- Kilve
- Lilstock
- Luccombe, Somerset
- Luxborough
- Monksilver
- Nettlecombe, Somerset
- Oare, Somerset
- Old Cleeve
- Porlock
- Roadwater
- Sampford Brett
- Selworthy
- Simonsbath
- Skilgate
- Stogumber
- Stogursey
- Stringston
- Timberscombe
- Treborough
- Upton, Somerset
- Washford
- West Quantoxhead
- Williton
- Winsford, Somerset
- Withycombe
- Withypool
- Wootton Courtenay
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunster
Also known as Avill, Broadwood, Somerset, Dunster Beach, Dunster, Somerset, Staunton, Somerset.
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