Scheduled monuments in Somerset

{{Main article|List of scheduled monuments in Bath and North East Somerset}}

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Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County of Avon.{{cite web|url=http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1995/Uksi_19950493_en_1.htm |title=The Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995 |access-date=9 December 2007 |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080130105206/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1995/Uksi_19950493_en_1.htm |archive-date=30 January 2008 }} Bath and North East Somerset occupies an area of {{convert|220|sqmi|km2|0}}, two-thirds of which is green belt.{{cite web |url=http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/bathnes/leisureandculture/tourismandtravel/areainformation/default.htm |title=About the area |access-date=30 December 2007 |publisher=Bath and North East Somerset Council |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071104232206/http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/bathnes/leisureandculture/tourismandtravel/areainformation/default.htm |archive-date = 4 November 2007}} BANES stretches from the outskirts of Bristol, south into the Mendip Hills, and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and the Wiltshire border. The city of Bath is the principal settlement in the district, but BANES also covers Keynsham, Midsomer Norton, Radstock and the Chew Valley.

There are 58 scheduled monuments in Bath and North East Somerset.{{cite web|title=List of Scheduled Monuments |url=http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/tourism-and-heritage/archaeology/list-scheduled-monuments |publisher=Bath and North East Somerset Council |access-date=9 September 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224114501/http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/tourism-and-heritage/archaeology/list-scheduled-monuments |archive-date=24 December 2013 }} Some of the oldest are Neolithic, including the Stanton Drew stone circles and several tumuli. The Great Circle at Stanton Drew is the second largest stone circle in Britain (after Avebury); it is considered to be one of the largest Neolithic monuments to have been built. The date of construction is not known but is thought to be between 3000 and 2000 BCE which places it in the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age.{{cite web|last1=Oswin |first1=John |last2=Richards |first2=John |last3=Sermon |first3=Richard |title=Stanton Drew 2010 Geophysical survey and other archaeological investigations |url=http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/sites/default/files/sd_2010_report_low_res.pdf |publisher=Bath and North East Somerset Council |access-date=21 August 2014 |page=63 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921170254/http://bathnes.gov.uk/sites/default/files/sd_2010_report_low_res.pdf |archive-date=21 September 2013 }} There are also several Iron Age hill forts such as the one at Maes Knoll,{{PastScape|mname=Maes Knoll |mnumber=201029 |access-date=24 March 2011 }} which is connected to the Wansdyke medieval defensive earthwork, several sections of which are included in this list.{{cite web|title=Wansdyke Project 21 |url=http://www.wansdyke21.org.uk/wansdykehomepage.htm |publisher=Wansdyke Project 21 |access-date=7 September 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150307014031/http://www.wansdyke21.org.uk/wansdykehomepage.htm |archive-date= 7 March 2015 }} The Romano-British period is represented with several sites, most notably the Roman Baths{{cite web|title=The Roman Baths |url=http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/ |publisher=Bath and North East Somerset Council |access-date=7 September 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815083714/http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/ |archive-date=15 August 2010 }} and city walls in Bath.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117309 |title=Romano-British Somerset: Part 2, Bath |editor=William Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1906 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 1 |access-date=15 September 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140916013458/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117309 |archive-date=16 September 2014 }} More recent sites include several bridges, with dates ranging from the Middle Ages to the 18th-century Palladian bridge in Prior Park Landscape Garden.{{cite web |author=Historic England |author-link=Historic England |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443307 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018034426/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443307 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-18 |title=Palladian Bridge in grounds of Prior Park (443307) |work=Images of England }} Dundas Aqueduct, built in 1805{{NHLE|num=1215193|desc=Dundas Aqueduct|access-date=10 September 2006}} to carry the Kennet and Avon Canal, is the most recent site in the list.

File:Avelineshole.jpg, a cave in Burrington Combe, is the earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Great Britain.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3130348.stm |title=Earliest British cemetery dated |date=23 September 2003 |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 January 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808094747/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3130348.stm |archive-date= 8 August 2007 }}]]

{{Main article|List of scheduled monuments in North Somerset}}

North Somerset is a unitary authority.

There are 68 scheduled monuments in North Somerset. Some of the oldest are Neolithic including Aveline's Hole, a cave which is the earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Britain, and several tumuli. There are also several Iron Age hill forts such as the one at Worlebury Camp. Dolebury Warren – another Iron Age hill fort – was reused as a medieval rabbit warren. The Romano-British period is represented with several sites, including villas.

More recent sites include several motte-and-bailey castles, such as Locking Castle; and church crosses which date from the Middle Ages. There are also several deserted medieval settlements. Woodspring Priory is a former Augustinian priory founded in the early 13th century.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol2/pp144-146 |title=Houses of Augustinian canons: The priory of Worspring |editor=William Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=15 July 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104135354/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol2/pp144-146 |archive-date= 4 January 2015 }} More recent sites date from the industrial revolution and include the Elms colliery and glassworks in Nailsea. The most recent monuments are two Palmerstonian gun batteries on the island of Steep Holm.{{Cite journal | last1 = Worrall | first1 = D. H. | last2 = Surtees | first2 = P. R. | title = Flat Holm  – an account of its history and ecology | publisher = South Glamorgan County Council | pages = 18–19 | year = 1984}}

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{{Main article|List of scheduled monuments in Mendip}}

Mendip is a former local government district which covers a largely rural area of {{convert|285|sqmi|km2|0}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mendip.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=940&p=0 |format=PDF |title=A Portrait of Mendip |publisher=Mendip District Council |page=1 |access-date=9 September 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104212439/http://www.mendip.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=940&p=0 |archive-date= 4 January 2014 }} ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels.

There are 233 scheduled monuments in Mendip. These include a large number of bowl and round barrows and other neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age tumuli such as the Priddy Circles and Priddy Nine Barrows and Ashen Hill Barrow Cemeteries.{{PastScape|mname=Priddy Circles |mnumber=197570|access-date=15 April 2011 }}{{NHLE|desc=Group of seven round barrows 380m east of East Water Drove (Part of Priddy Nine Barrows Cemetery) |num=1010506 |access-date=13 April 2014 }}{{NHLE|desc=Ashen Hill barrow cemetery: a group of eight round barrows 500m southeast of Harptree Lodge |num=1010513 |access-date=13 April 2014 }}{{NHLE|desc=Pair of bowl barrows 405m east of East Water Drove (Part of Priddy Nine Barrows Cemetery) |num=1010503 |access-date=13 April 2014 }} There are also several Iron Age hill forts on the hilltops, and lake villages on the lowlands such as Meare and Glastonbury Lake Villages.{{PastScape|mname=Glastonbury Lake Village |mnumber=194156 |access-date=16 March 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/23637 |title=Glastonbury Lake Village |access-date=18 November 2007 |work=Somerset Historic Environment Record |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003094559/http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/23637 |archive-date= 3 October 2016 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/23784 |title=Iron-age settlement (Meare West), Meare |work=Somerset Historic Environment Record |publisher=Somerset County Council |access-date=10 February 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003095629/http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/23784 |archive-date= 3 October 2016 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/24277 |title=Iron-age settlement (Meare East), Meare |work=Somerset Historic Environment Record |publisher=Somerset County Council |access-date=10 February 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003093049/http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/24277 |archive-date= 3 October 2016 }} The lake villages were often connected by timber trackways such as the Sweet Track. There are several Roman sites, particularly around the Charterhouse Roman Town and its associated lead mines.{{cite journal | last = Elkington | first = H D H | title = The Mendip Lead Industry | journal = The Roman West Country: Classical Culture and Celtic Society|pages=183–197 | year = 1976}} Some later coal mining sites are also included in the list.

Two major religious sites in Mendip at Glastonbury Abbey and Wells Cathedral, and their precincts and dispersed residences, tithe barns and The Abbot's Fish House also figure prominently in the list. Prehistoric defensive features such as Ponter's Ball Dyke were supplemented in the medieval period by motte-and-bailey castles such as Farleigh Hungerford, Nunney and Fenny Castle. Commercial and industrial development is represented by the Old Iron Works at Mells and various market crosses. The most recent monuments are World War II bunkers and bombing decoys on Black Down, the highest point of the Mendip Hills,Brown, Donald (1999). Somerset v Hitler: Secret Operations in the Mendips 1939 - 1945. Newbury: Countryside Books. {{ISBN|1-85306-590-0}}. pages 165-177{{cite web|title=Mendip Hills An Archaeological Survey of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |work=Somerset County Council Archaeological Projects |url=http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/hes/downloads/HES_MendipAONB.pdf |access-date=16 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516154619/http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/hes/downloads/HES_MendipAONB.pdf |archive-date=16 May 2011 }} which also appear on the Sedgemoor list as the site crosses the boundary between the districts.

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{{Main article|List of scheduled monuments in Sedgemoor}}

The former district of Sedgemoor is a low-lying area of land close to sea level between the Quantock and Mendip hills, historically largely marsh (or moor). It contains the bulk of the area also known as the Somerset Levels, including Europe's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track.{{cite web|title=The day the Sweet Track was built |work=New Scientist, 16 June 1990 |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12617212.800-science-the-day-the-sweet-track-was-built.html |access-date=26 October 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311232408/http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12617212.800-science-the-day-the-sweet-track-was-built.html |archive-date=11 March 2010 }}

There are 79 scheduled monuments in Sedgemoor. Some of the oldest are Neolithic, Bronze Age or Iron Age including hill forts, Bowl barrows and occupied caves including several in Cheddar Gorge. Cannington Camp (which is also known as Cynwit Castle) dates from the Bronze Age,{{PastScape|mname=Cannington Park Camp |mnumber=191244 |access-date=16 March 2011 }} while Brent Knoll Camp between the Somerset Levels and Brean Down is Iron Age (although there are some Bronze Age artefacts and it was reused in the Roman period.{{cite book |last=Adkins |first=Lesley and Roy |title=A field Guide to Somerset Archaeology |year=1992 |publisher=Dovecote press |isbn=0-946159-94-7 |pages=29–30}}{{cite web|title=Brent Knoll hill fort, Brent Knoll |url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/11113 |work=Somerset Historic Environment Record |publisher=Somerset County Council |access-date=19 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003094113/http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/11113 |archive-date= 3 October 2016 }} The Romano-British period is represented with several sites. More recent sites include several motte-and-bailey castles and church or village crosses which date from the Middle Ages. Industrial development, particularly in Bridgwater, are represented by brick and tile kilns and a telescopic railway bridge.{{NHLE |num=1206110 |desc=Brick kiln East Quay |access-date=30 October 2007}}{{cite book|last=Otter|first=R. A.|title=Civil Engineering Heritage: Southern England|publisher=Thomas Telford|year=1994 |isbn=0-7277-1971-8|pages=95–97}}

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{{Main article|List of scheduled monuments in South Somerset}}

The South Somerset former district occupies an area of {{convert|370|sqmi|km2|0}}, stretching from its borders with Devon and Dorset to the edge of the Somerset Levels.{{cite web|url=http://www.southsomerset.gov.uk/media/15589/Economic%20Profile%20An_Introduction_to_South_Somerset.pdf |title=An introduction to South Somerset |publisher=South Somerset District Council |access-date=9 September 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129052617/http://www.southsomerset.gov.uk/media/15589/Economic%20Profile%20An_Introduction_to_South_Somerset.pdf |archive-date=29 November 2014 }}

There are 69 scheduled monuments in South Somerset.{{cite web|title=Scheduled Monuments |url=https://www.southsomerset.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/conservation/historic-heritage-conservation/scheduled-monuments/ |publisher=South Somerset Council |access-date=9 September 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911001839/https://www.southsomerset.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/conservation/historic-heritage-conservation/scheduled-monuments/ |archive-date=11 September 2014 }} Some of the oldest are Neolithic, Bronze Age or Iron Age including hill forts, such as Kenwalch's Castle and Bowl barrows. The Romano-British period is represented with several sites including the Low Ham Roman Villa which had an extensive mosaic floor, now on display in the Museum of Somerset.{{cite web|title=Museum of Somerset opens! |url=http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/counties/somerset/news-events/somerset-vch-office-move |publisher=Victoria County History |access-date=9 September 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911002447/http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/counties/somerset/news-events/somerset-vch-office-move |archive-date=11 September 2014 }} Religious sites are represented by Muchelney Abbey, which was founded in the 7th or 8th century,{{PastScape|mname=Muchelney Abbey |mnumber=193791 |access-date=15 September 2014 }} and Montacute Priory, a Cluniac priory of the Benedictine order, from the 11th.{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/54294 |title=Montacute Priory |work=Somerset Historic Environment Record |publisher=Somerset County Council |access-date=2009-07-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003110639/http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/54294 |archive-date= 3 October 2016 }} Bruton Abbey was founded by the Benedictines before becoming a house of Augustinian canons. Stoke sub Hamdon Priory was formed in 1304 as a chantry college rather than a priory.{{Cite journal |last=Pantin |first=W. A. |author-link=William Abel Pantin |year=1959 |title=Chantry Priests' Houses and other Medieval Lodgings |journal=Medieval Archaeology |volume=3 |publisher=Society for Medieval Archaeology |url=http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/archiveDownload?t=arch-769-1/dissemination/pdf/vol03/3_216_258.pdf |pages=219–224 |doi=10.1080/00766097.1959.11735592 |access-date=16 December 2013}}

More recent sites include several motte-and-bailey castles such as Cary Castle,{{PastScape|mnumber=200127 |access-date=17 July 2011 }} and church crosses which date from the Middle Ages. Several packhorse bridges, such as Bow Bridge at Plox also appear in the list. The most recent monuments include the Round House, a village lock-up in Castle Cary dating from 1779.{{cite book|last=Byford|first=Enid|title=Somerset Curiosities|year=1987|publisher=Dovecote Press|isbn=0946159483|page=[https://archive.org/details/somersetcuriosit0000byfo/page/16 16]|url=https://archive.org/details/somersetcuriosit0000byfo/page/16}}{{cite book|last=Warren|first=Derrick|title=Curious Somerset|year=2005|publisher=Sutton Publishing|isbn=978-0-7509-4057-3|page=32}}{{NHLE|desc=The Round House |num=1056279 |access-date=21 March 2014 }}

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{{Main article|List of scheduled monuments in Taunton Deane}}

The former district of Taunton Deane has an area of {{convert|462|km2}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=277101&c=Taunton+Deane&d=13&e=8&g=484170&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1240676687609&enc=1 |title=Area: Taunton Deane (Local Authority): Key Figures for Physical Environment |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=25 April 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729125608/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7 |archive-date=29 July 2014 }}

There are 33 scheduled monuments in Taunton Deane. Many of them are Neolithic through to the Bronze and Iron Ages such as bowl barrows, cairns along with hill forts such as Norton Camp.{{PastScape|mname=Norton Camp |mnumber=189007 |access-date=26 March 2011 }} Castle Neroche was an Iron Age hill fort which was reused as a Norman motte-and-bailey castle.{{PastScape|mname=Castle Neroche |mnumber=190295 |access-date=22 March 2011 }} Burrow Mump shows evidence or Roman use but is better known as a Norman motte-and-bailey castle,{{cite web|title=Burrow Mump, Burrowbridge |url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/44199 |work=Somerset Historic Environment Record |publisher=Somerset County Council |access-date=4 October 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003093703/http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/44199 |archive-date= 3 October 2016 }} and later church.{{NHLE|desc=Remains of Church on Burrow Mump |num=1344609 |access-date=2 March 2014 }} It was presented, in 1946, by Major Alexander Gould Barrett, to the National Trust and serves as a memorial to the 11,281{{cite book|last=Dunning|first=Robert|title=A history of Somerset|year=1983|isbn=0-85033-461-6|page=101}} Somerset men who lost their lives during the first and second world wars.{{cite book |title=Curiosities of Somerset |last=Leete-Hodge |first=Lornie |year=1985 |publisher=Bossiney Books |isbn=0-906456-98-3 |page=82 }}

The medieval period is represented by several churchyard and village crosses. The defensive walls and part of Taunton Castle, which has Anglo-Saxon origins and was expanded during the Medieval and Tudor eras, are included.{{cite book|last=Bush|first=Robin|author-link=Robin Bush (historian)|title=Somerset: The Complete Guide|publisher=Dovecote Press|year=1994|pages=[https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush/page/202 202–206]|isbn=1-874336-26-1|url=https://archive.org/details/somersetcomplete0000bush/page/202}}{{cite web|url=http://www.tauntontowncentre.co.uk/about_taunton_history.htm |title=Taunton's History |access-date=21 November 2007 |work=Taunton Town Centre! |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070603195008/http://www.tauntontowncentre.co.uk/about_taunton_history.htm |archive-date= 3 June 2007 |url-status=dead }} More recent sites include Poundisford Park, Buckland Priory, Bradford Bridge and a duck decoy from the 17th century. Some of the sites such as Balt Moor Wall are of uncertain date. The most recent are air traffic control buildings, pillboxes and fighter pens from RAF Culmhead, at Churchstanton on the Blackdown Hills.{{cite book |title=Somerset airfields in the Second World War |last=Berryman |first=David |year=2006 |publisher=Countryside Books |isbn=1-85306-864-0 |pages=50–86 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/44340 |title=Culmhead airfield, Trickey Warren |work=Somerset Historic Environment Record |publisher=Somerset County Council |access-date=2009-07-25 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003093046/http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/44340 |archive-date= 3 October 2016 }}

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{{Main article|List of scheduled monuments in West Somerset}}

The West Somerset former local government district covers a largely rural area, including parts of Exmoor, and has an area of {{convert|740|km2}}.{{cite web|url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=277102&c=West+Somerset&d=13&e=8&g=484429&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1240523739671&enc=1 |title=West Somerset (Local Authority): Key Figures for Physical Environment |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=23 April 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729125608/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7 |archive-date=29 July 2014 }} The largest centres of population are the coastal towns of Minehead and Watchet.

There are 202 scheduled monuments in West Somerset. Some of the oldest, particularly on Exmoor and the Quantock Hills are Neolithic, Bronze Age or Iron Age including hill forts, cairns, bowl barrows and other tumuli. More recent sites include several motte-and-bailey castles. Dunster Castle has been fortified since the late Anglo-Saxon period. After the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century, William de Mohun constructed a timber castle on the site as part of the pacification of Somerset. A stone shell keep was built on the motte by the start of the 12th century, and the castle survived a siege during the early years of the Anarchy. At the end of the 14th century the de Mohuns sold the castle to the Luttrell family, who expanded it several times during the 17th and 18th centuries. The medieval castle walls were mostly destroyed following the siege of Dunster Castle at the end of the English Civil War. In the 1860s and 1870s, the architect Anthony Salvin was employed to remodel the castle to fit Victorian tastes; this work extensively changed the appearance of Dunster to make it appear more Gothic and Picturesque.Garnett, Oliver. (2003) Dunster Castle, Somerset. London: The National Trust. {{ISBN|978-1-84359-049-1}}. pages 32-33 In 1976 Colonel Walter Luttrell gave Dunster Castle and most of its contents to the National Trust, which operates it as a tourist attraction.[http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-dunstercastle/w-dunstercastle-garden.htm Explore the Garden] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023102958/http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-dunstercastle/w-dunstercastle-garden.htm |date=23 October 2011 }}, National Trust, accessed 24 September 2011; [http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/1187 Dunster Castle] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908223204/http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/1187 |date= 8 September 2014 }}, Parks and Gardens UK, Parks and Gardens Data Services Ltd., accessed 9 July 2011.

There are also several church or village crosses which date from the Middle Ages. Other sites of religious significance include Cleeve Abbey which was founded by William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln{{cite book |title=Curiosities of Somerset |last=Leete-Hodge |first=Lornie |year=1985 |publisher=Bossiney Books |isbn=0-906456-98-3 |page=43 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40927 |title=House of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Cleeve |editor=William Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 |access-date=11 May 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709160655/http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40927 |archive-date= 9 July 2014 }} in a grant of 1191, on land he had been given by king Æthelred the Unready.{{cite book| title=Cleeve Abbey|first= Stuart A. |last=Harrison | publisher=English Heritage |year=2000|isbn=1-85074-760-1|page=24}} The geography with large numbers of streams is reflected by the number of packhorse bridges, such as Gallox Bridge and Robber's Bridge, included in the list. The mining history of the area is also represented by several sections of the West Somerset Mineral Railway and associated ruins of mine buildings which are now scheduled. The most recent monuments are World War II pillboxes. The village of Dunster provides the highest concentration of monuments, ranging from Iron Age forts to the castle, and Yarn Market which was built around 1600.{{NHLE|num=1173428|desc=Yarn Market|access-date=28 August 2007|fewer-links=yes}}{{cite web|url=http://www.dunstertithebarn.org.uk/history-dunster.htm |title=Brief History of Dunster |publisher=Dunster Tithe Barn |access-date=26 May 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120215318/http://www.dunstertithebarn.org.uk/history-dunster.htm |archive-date=20 November 2008 }}

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