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  1. 10th September

    Today in 1816, Mary Shelley and her husband, Percy, arrived in Bath. Mary’s journal states: “Arrive at Bath about two – dine and spend the evening in looking for lodgings”.

    Mary didn’t spend that much time in Somerset, but her stay in Bath was very significant. Staying until early 1817, she wrote much of Frankenstein whilst living there. She was only 19 at the time.

    Mary features in On This Day in Somerset.

    #maryshelley #bath #somerset #writers #frankenstein #history

  2. St Aldelms Well, Doulting, Somerset. A spring that is the source of River Sheppey. Said to have curative properties - somewhat undermined by the fact that St Aldelm died, shortly after arriving here.
    #StAldelmsWell #Doulting #Somerset #spring #Sheppey

  3. surreal natural art

    Over thousands of years, water and minerals have worked hand in hand to create true works of art...

    August 2026 Gough’s Cave, Cheddar, Somerset

    #StalactiteCave #Stalagmites #Stalactites #GoughsCave #Cheddar #Somerset #England #UK #Cave #pool #water #minerals #reflection #mirror #Spiegelung

  4. It is not usual for one Mason to be Master of more than one Lodge consecutively, and many jurisdictions expressly forbid it. However, Victor Dover was Master of the oldest English Lodge - Royal Somerset and Inverness Lodge 4 - and the then youngest Lodge - Swakely Lodge 6634 - in 1948.

    #Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #England #Somerset #Inverness

  5. Mayors are the big winners in Burnham’s devolution drive. So what happens to areas without mayors? | John Harris
    By John Harris

    Labour has promised a ‘fundamental rewiring’ of power. But some areas are years into their devolution journey while others scramble to get started

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #Devolution #AndyBurnham #Labour #Politics #UKnews #Somerset #Wiltshire #TheGuardian #JohnHarris

  6. I see The Strawberry Line has just been voted Britain's favourite path for 2026. By coincidence, I cycled along it, from Cheddar to Yatton, only a couple of months ago.

    #Cycling #Somerset #Path

    Former railway line named Britain's favourite path:

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgyl2

  7. 27th August

    On this day in 1969, Doris Brabham Hatt passed away in Clevedon, where she had lived with her partner, Margery, for many years.

    Doris was born & raised in Bath. She studied at Bath High School and later the Bath School of Art. Doris became a talented artist, known for using bright colours and depicting energy in her work.

    There's a chapter on Doris and Margery in Unsung Women in Somerset and they feature in On This Day in Somerset.

    #Clevedon #Bath #history #art #Somerset

  8. Today is the feast day of Decuman, a Celtic saint who came from South Wales to #Somerset in the 7th century; he is said to have arrived on a raft with a cow for companion cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/gl #travel #England #history

  9. A stream winds through fields on the Holnicote estate, #Somerset. The rewilding projects help “store water during drought… and slow water during extreme rainfall“.

    “Nature is providing solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society today,” said Ben Eardley, the project manager at the Holnicote estate.

    “By reconnecting river systems with the surrounding area and creating natural sponges in the landscape, we’ve created a system that stores water during drought, keeping wetlands and the surrounding habitats healthy, and slows water during storms and periods of extreme rainfall, helping to protect villages from the risk of flooding downstream.”

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #adaptation #carbon #carbonSinks #restoration #rewilding #reforestation #water #river #wetland #rewetting #resistance #drought #droughts #heatwaves #landSink #floods #flood #flooding

  10. Hype for the Future 247/284: Maryland’s Eastern Shore

    Introduction The Eastern Shore of the State of Maryland is a notable area east of the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay in the State of Maryland and is most commonly associated with Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne’s, Caroline, Talbot, Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, and Worcester Counties. While Kent County is associated with the extreme southwestern portion of the Greater Philadelphia area, the more southerly counties of the State of Maryland are associated with rural communities and larger […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026