Another adventure at hand........the exploration into family roots in Somerset County. Andrea has done some research, but Janet has gathered the most information, having worked on this for the past several years. The goal was to drive to the towns of Somerton and South Petherton and just get a feel for the places, particularly checking out the primary churches. The 'roots' go back to the 15th century, but the most detailed information comes from the early 1800's. I will let Andrea add some details here.
We are staying in Bruton, which is also in Somerset County, so the driving should not be too much of a strain other than the narrow back county roads!
Somerton is a town and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It gave its name to the county and was briefly, around the start of the 14th century, the county town, and around 900 was possibly the capital of Wessex. This was where we spent the morning. It is a quaint, but fairly active, town with a very nice historic center where the main church is located.
South Petherton is distinctive for the traditional hamstone construction of many of its buildings. In 2005 South Petherton was awarded ‘Somerset Village of the Year’ in a national competition
We took a lot of pictures in both Somerton and South Petherton so that we could send them to Janet and Suzanne to make sure they could get a feel for the 'sense of place' here. Both towns were quite picturesque and wonderfully maintained.
SOMERTON (and surroundings)
SOUTH PETHERTON (and surroundings)
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