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This pagan tradition is still alive in England—and you can join. Venture into Somerset’s cider country to mark the turning of apple season at a traditional wassailing ceremony.
SOMERSET, England (WKRC) - A large treasure trove of coins that remained buried under farmland for nearly 1,000 years fetched its finders millions of dollars.
The Friends of The Museum of Somerset hosted John Smith, where he used models of all the aircraft involved to illustrate his ...
England is famously full of ancient buildings which have been lived in by a huge array of different people. ... Saltford House in the Somerset village of the same name is around 875-years-old, ...
The fossilized trees were uncovered in a rock embedded in the Hangman Sandstone Formation of Somerset and Devon, which dates back 393 million to 383 million years ago. At a quick glance, they look ...
On April 4, 1942, the diarist Henry “Chips” Channon and a few of his friends paid a visit to Wells Cathedral—one of England’s early Gothic treasures—in the southwest county of Somerset.
Thousands of ancient butchered human bones found in a deep shaft in southwest England have pointed archaeologists to a grim chapter of British prehistory that occurred during the Early Bronze Age ...
A section of an ancient footbridge has washed away following heavy rain. Slabs from the middle of the Tarr Steps on Exmoor, near Withypool, washed downstream during recent flooding in Somerset ...