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Somerset

 

 

The River Exe swollen with late winter rain runs past Pixton hill

The Barle rises in the former Exmoor forest and now issues out of Pinkery or Pinkworthy Pond west of the Chains, the high moors in

Pixton Park in its woodland setting on a hill high above the river Barle

Methodist Chapel, Oldways End, Somerset 1845

Cottages at Oldways End, Brushford. Oldways or Allways End, like Exebridge, straggles two parishes and two counties.

Old Shute farm lies in the west of Dulverton parish across the Barle.

William I on a penny struck in Watchet, the nearest mint to Exmoor.

Traditional haymaking near Winsford

Blue Gate mine, Exmoor, with engine pumping during an attempt to reopen the mines just before the First World War

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