The legend of the Gurt Worm on the Quantocks.
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The Gurt Worm
Glastonbury’s 550 year old pub
The George and Pilgrims Inn claims to be the oldest purpose-built pub in the South West
The Exmoor White Horse Inn
The story and history of a 16th Century Inn owned by a couple for the past 35 years.
The lost village of Clicket
The Exmoor village was abandoned more than a hundred years ago.
The Bakery that disappeared from the A303
The Bakery in West Camel no longer sits on the A303 due to the new road layout.
The Witch of Wookey Hole
Exploring the caves and the legend of the witch of Wookey Hole.
The D-Day air support
Discover the role the South West’s airfields played in D-Day.
The gothic mansion that became a TB Sanatorium
Quantock Lodge was built in the 1800s for the-then MP of Taunton, Henry Labouchere.
The burning city on the Mendips
Lights and fires were used to trick German bombers into thinking they’d reached Bristol.
The Pauper Lunatic Asylum Cemetery
The cemetery is the final resting place for inmates and staff from the asylum.
The coal miner who ended up in a lunatic asylum
Mark Whitcomb and the Furman sisters are remembered at the Mendip Hospital Cemetery.
How Cheddar inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
The author first visited the picturesque area of Somerset on his honeymoon in 1916.
Taunton’s Tudor Tavern
The town's oldest listed domestic building is now a café.
The Exmoor pub with famous connections
A president, a spy and a tragic ghost – the history of The Royal Oak in Withypool.
In the cockpit of Concorde
The story of Yeovilton’s Concorde at the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
The hidden past of Exmoor’s WW2 training site
A radar station and archaeological remains can be found on the North Hill site.
Old Mother Leakey: the ghost of Minehead
A ghost, a bishop and mysterious shipwrecks around Minehead harbour.
The Somerset bank with its own banknotes
It’s said Stuckey’s banknotes had a circulation second only to the Bank of England.
The witchcraft trial of Julian Cox
Julian Cox was the last person to be executed in Taunton for witchcraft in 1663.
The bootmaker whose inventions changed lives
Chard's James Gillingham found his calling after a local man was injured in an accident.
The WW2 hero who didn’t carry a weapon
Arturo Fanconi from Ilminster was posthumously awarded the Albert Medal for saving lives.
The chained library with books older than America
The Wells Cathedral library securely holds books, published before the 1800s, in chains.
From Exmoor to Australia: The oldest ringing church bell
How a 16th century bell that chimed in Upton ended up in an rainforest wedding chapel.