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Dunster

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Content generated during research for Victoria County History Somerset Volume XII. More information is available on the VCH Somerset website

Dunster sat in a web of routes from Exmoor to the coast and between villages and hamlets but from the 18th century attempts were made to rationalis

The river Avill rises in Cutcombe parish on Exmoor and flows down to Dunster and Marsh to the Hawn or Haven of Dunster into the sea.

A network of roads formerly connected Dunster with its hamlets, fields, woods and marshes as well as neighbouring villages.

Dunster's tourist trade has a long history. The Luttrell Arms was created with tourists in mind in 1779.

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