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A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 1
Covers the natural history of the county, some archaeological material, a chapter on Romano-British Somerset - including detailed coverage of Bath - the Somerset Domesday and the Geld Inquest.
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2
A part-volume covering the religious houses of the county, including the cathedral of Wells and the Benedictine houses of Bath and Glastonbury.
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes)
Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton hundreds together occupy the Lower Parrett valley stretching from the Quantock ridge in the west to King's Sedgemoor in the east, and from the Bristol Channel in the north to the river Tone in the south.
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 7, Bruton, Horethorne and Norton Ferris Hundreds
The history of the south-east corner of Somerset, comprising the outliers of Salisbury Plain on the east and part of a clay vale to the west.
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 3
The histories of the parishes of Kingsbury (east), Pitney, Somerton and Tintinhull hundreds.
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: Volume 10
This volume covers the northern part of the Catsash hundred, comprising ten ancient parishes. The town of Castle Cary is the most populous parish treated; the others are Alford, Ansford, Babcary, Barton St David, Keinton Mandeville, Kingweston, Lovington, West Lydford and Wheathill.
A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 8
Gives a detailed account of the history of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent.
A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 5, East Cuttlestone Hundred
Covers the hundred of East Cuttlestone in the south-west of the county, and includes the towns of Brewood, Cannock, Penkridge and Rugeley.
A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17, Offlow Hundred (Part)
West Bromwich, Smethwick, and Walsall are all close neighbours and all former county boroughs.