SOMERSET

Tarr steps, Exmoor
(From a Photograph by Messrs Valentine, Dundee)

Market place, frome
(From a Photograph by Messrs Valentine, Dundee)

St Joseph’s chapel, Glastonbury
(From a Photograph by Mr Walter Raymond)

Glastonbury tor
(From a Photograph by Messrs Frith, Reigate)

Alfoxden house, near Holford
(From a Photograph by Messrs Frith, Reigate)

Horner woods and Porlock vale
(From a Photograph by Messrs Frith, Reigate)

The hanging chapel, Langport
(From a Photograph by Messrs Frith, Reigate)

Luccombe village
(From a Photograph by Messrs Frith, Reigate)

Mells village
(From a Photograph by Messrs Valentine, Dundee)

Minehead
(From a Photograph by Messrs Frith, Reigate)

MONTACUTE HOUSE
(From a Photograph by Messrs Frith, Reigate)

THE GEORGE INN, NORTON ST PHILIP
(From a Photograph by Messrs Valentine, Dundee)

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

NUNNEY CASTLE AND VILLAGE (From a Photograph by Messrs Valentine, Dundee)

OLD BANK, PORLOCK
(From a Photograph by Messrs Valentine, Dundee)

ALLERFORD
(From a Photograph by Messrs Frith, Reigate)

SHEPTON MALLET CROSS
(From a Photograph by Mr Walter Raymond)

NETHER STOWEY
(From a Photograph by Messrs Frith, Reigate)

TAUNTON FROM THE RIVER
(From a Photograph by Messrs Valentine, Dundee)

WELLS CATHEDRAL
(From a Photograph by Messrs Frith, Reigate)

VICARS’ CLOSE, WELLS
(From a Photograph by Messrs Frith, Reigate)

THE PALACE GATEWAY, WELLS
(From a Photograph by Messrs Valentine, Dundee)

WESTON-SUPER-MARE
(From a Photograph by Messrs Valentine, Dundee)

NINE SPRINGS, YEOVIL
(From a Photograph by Messrs Valentine, Dundee)

MAP OF SOMERSET

INTRODUCTION

I. SITUATION AND EXTENT

SOMERSET is one of the S.W. counties of England.  On the N. it is washed by the Bristol Channel; on the N.E. the Avon, like a silver streak, divides it from Gloucestershire; it is bordered on the E. by Wiltshire; its S.E. neighbour is Dorset; and on the S.W. it touches Devon.  Its shape is so irregular that dimensions give a misleading indication of its extent.  Its extreme length is about 60 m., and its greatest width