Brendon Hills, Somerset
Historical Description
Brendon Hills, a range of hills in Somersetshire, 7 miles SSW of Watchet. It is several miles long and 1210 feet high, consists of loose, shelly limestone, and contains a vein of carbonate of iron. For a time this was worked by the Ebbw Vale Company, who constructed a railway to Watchet; but it ceased to be profitable, and the mines have been closed for some years. A British camp, called Ellworthy Barrows, is on the W point of the range, and British urns have been found.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Somerset Archives & Local Studies, have images of the Parish Registers for Somerset online.
Maps
Online maps of Brendon Hills are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)