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A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 8, the Poldens and the Levels
Somerset's Polden hills divide the county's central marshlands, Sedgemoor to the south and the Brue Valley to the north.
A History of the County of Somerset
… to the Parret, thus including the fastnesses of the Polden Hills. From the Parret the next advance was to the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… C.995 River Lea, Ponders End: bronze brooch, rather like Polden Hill type of Camulodunum type IX (illustrated facing …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This parish, which is bounded on the south by the Polden hills, and intersected by the road from Glastonbury to …
A History of the County of Somerset
… land lies above 7.5 m. (25 ft.) on the eastern end of the Polden spur, rising to 68 m. (225 ft.) in the west. A ridge … Evidence of Mesolithic occupation has been found on the Polden slope north of the village and in Ashcott Heath, and a …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Bawdrip 1841 Bawdrip parish lies on the south side of the Polden ridge 5 km. north-east from Bridgwater. 1 It stretches … to Stawell village on the east, and for 2.5 km. from the Polden ridgeway which forms its northern boundary to Chedzoy … contour on marls between alluvium and the Blue Lias of the Polden ridge which rises to over 61 m. above Knowle. 4 There …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… family of Jordans (DD/SPK), the Stradlings of Chilton Polden (DD/S/ST), the Walker Heneage family of East Coker …
A History of the County of Somerset
… with an average width of about six miles. On the north the Polden Hills form for many miles a natural barrier separating …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 55 The United Methodist Free Church also had a chapel in Polden Street, recorded c. 1886. It closed probably before … the need for new premises and a chapel was built in Polden Street in 1876. Preaching was also undertaken at the … Methodists. Until 1911 the combined congregation used the Polden Street chapel, which was then sold for use as an …