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COUNTY OF SOMERSET

Steeped in history and legend,
Somerset provides many opportunities for half or full day tours from Bath.

The legend is King Arthur.
Dunster Castle is where Arthur is said to have spent his childhood, while the hill at South Cadbury could be identified as Camelot. Avalon could be Glastonbury, linking with the claim that Arthur’s grave was to be found at Glastonbury Abbey.

At Glastonbury the Abbey, now in ruins, was an early Christian foundation. Outside the town is the Chalice Well, legendary hiding place of the Holy Grail, near the ancient sacred site of the Tor topped with St Michael’s Tower.

Wells is the smallest city in England. The gothic Cathedral has fine medieval statuary, stained glass, chapter house and astronomical clock. Adjacent is the 13th century Bishop’s Palace and the Vicar’s Close, a complete medieval street.

Wells is set in the Mendip Hills and nearby the dramatic gorge and caves at
Cheddar and Wookey Hole cut through the landscape.

South of the Mendip Hills is low lying land called the Levels or Moors and further south again are the steep escarpments and wooded coombes of the Quantock Hills.

Many Somerset villages and towns are fascinating: Dunster, Farleigh Hungerford and Nunney with their castles; Priddy on top of the Mendip Hills; Norton St Philip with the George Coaching Inn;
Muchelney with its Priest’s House and ruined abbey; Radstock and Camerton for the coal mining history; Montacute with its Elizabethan manor house; the ‘stone’ villages of Martock, Somerton, Stoke-sub-Hamdon and Doulton.

Gardens to visit include those at
Barrington Court, Cothay Manor, Lytes Cary and Hestercombe. The famous Somerset cider can sampled at the Somerset Distillery.


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