Before 1800 Dunster had the most important market in West Somerset serving a wide area of the Brendons and Exmoor as well as the coastal communitie
The ruined chapels close to Basingstoke railway station are as much a landmark today as they were to Thomas Hardy.
Cloth was woven at Dunster by 1266 and cloths known as Dunsters were exported from the mid 16th century.
The Minehead port area, which stretched from the Devon boundary to Shurton Barrs near Stogursey, was full of small creeks and landing places where
