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	Puriton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Puriton is a village and a parish, at the westerly end of the Polden Hills, in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, UK.
		The road-link between Riverton Road / Puriton Hill and Puriton Road / Downend Road was severed by the M5 motorway, being replaced by a pedestrian footbridge to the hamlet of Downend.
		The northern end of King's Sedgemoor Drain, where it discharges into the River Parrett, lies just outside the Puriton Parish boundary; it runs parallel, at this point, between the Polden Hills (to the east) and the M5 motorway (to the west).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Puriton (957 words)

	GENUKI: The National Gazetteer (1868) - Somerset
		The Mendip hills extend from the coast in a south-easterly direction to the neighbourhood of Frome, being from 25 to 30 miles in length, and at one place, between Stoke Rodney and West Harptree, from 6 to 7 miles broad, with an altitude of 1,000 feet above the sea.
		The Polden hills are a long, low ridge, extending for 20 miles, and separated from the Mendips, to which they are nearly parallel, by a marshy tract, through which the Brue winds slowly, and which includes East Sedgmoor and the adjacent moors.
		In the central district, the Brent marshes or fens, lying N. of the Polden hills, are drained by the Brue by means of a barrier, provided with a flood-gate at Highbridge to resist the tides.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/SOM/Gaz1868.html (2783 words)

	Shapwick \| British History Online
		The Polden Hill friendly society was similarly registered in 1835 with altered rules in 1836, 1839, and 1840.
		The re-arrangement of the great multiple estate of Glastonbury abbey on the Polden ridge is assumed to have taken place in the late Saxon period and to have assigned to Shapwick a pastoral function.
		In 1690 the Polden Hill Meeting moved to the village from Sutton Mallet and for a time was held alternately there and at Greinton.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=15115 (11990 words)

	Page 152 THE BOOK OF DUCK DECOYS. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		At the beginning of the century this flat was still partially uncultivated and subject in winter to frequent floods that almost gave it the appearance of a sea.
		Midway the Polden Hills rise from the level country.
		of the Polden Hills the sluggish River Parrot flows through the large area of low land known as Kings Sedgemoor 15,000 acres), so named from the Battle of Sedgemoor, which was fought in and around this, as it then was, morass.
	www.decoymans.co.uk /chapter12/page152.html (314 words)

	Introduction \| British History Online
		Much of the valley south of the Poldens is known as Sedgemoor or King's Sedgemoor, though further east by a variety of local names, and was formed by the early courses of the rivers Cary and Parrett.
		There is no uniform pattern of settlement, but on the northern slope of the Poldens the villages are on the spring line and are closely spaced.
		The ancient boundaries of the parishes in the volume, with the exception of those on the north side of the Polden ridge, are related to topography, though the boundaries on the Levels, established either in the Middle Ages or later, are often the result of agreement after dispute.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=15100 (2522 words)

	Levels & Moors Project somerset, levels, moors, avalon, othery, wetlands, marsh- - Villages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ashcott: is situated at the extreme eastern end of the Sedgemoor District, on the south facing slopes of the Polden Hills.
		Edington: is located on the edge of the Polden Hills overlooking the Avalon Marshes.
		Shapwick: nestles between the Polden Hills and the Avalon Marshes, it boasts a 14th century church which lies at the heart of the village.
	avalonmarshes.org.uk /villages.php (717 words)

	ENGLISH NATURE - Special Sites
		The Quantocks and the Brendon Hills at the eastern end of Exmoor are formed by thick sequences of slates and sandstones of Devonian age that were deposited by large deltas that built out into a shallow sea.
		All of these hill ranges are surrounded by mudstones and sandstones of Triassic age, which represent the deposits of large river systems that crossed a desert plain.
		In the far south of the County, the heathy windswept plateaux and ridges of the Blackdown Hills are capped by the marine sands of the Cretaceous Upper Greensand, which in turn is overlain by the purer white limestone of the Chalk in the Chard and Crewkerne area.
	www.english-nature.org.uk /special/geological/sites/area_ID30.asp (3117 words)

	Village
		The upper reaches of the Knoll were fortified and occupied as a hill fort during the Iron Age.
		Known by the Romans as: "The Mount of Frogs," the Knoll is an outcrop of the nearby Mendip Hills.
		137 meters high, (449 feet) it affords splendid views of the Polden Hills to the south, Glastonbury Tor to the east, the Mendip Hills and Cheddar Gorge to the north east, the Bristol Channel and Wales to the west and the Quantock Hills to the south west.
	www.brentknoll.fslife.co.uk /village.htm (404 words)

	Page 154 THE BOOK OF DUCK DECOYS. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Shapwick, 5½ miles to the W. of Glastonbury, near the north slope of the Polden Hills, and not far from Sedgemoor, on Shapwick Heath, is a Decoy, which is still occasionally worked, belonging to Mr.
		In consequence, however, of shooting being carried on near the pool, the fowl are too much disturbed, and do not resort there in any number ; so that the working of it cannot be called successful, and is, indeed, but occasional.
		of Glastonbury, and close to the south slope of the Polden Hills, within a mile and a half of Walton, and between that village and Compton Dundon, are three Decoys.
	www.decoymans.co.uk /chapter12/page154.html (378 words)

	About Collard Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Collard Hill was acquired by the National Trust in 1996.
		It consists of 17 ha (42 acres) of calcareous grassland and reverting semi-improved pasture on calcareous clays on the south-facing slope of the Polden Hills, south of Street.
		Collard Hill is almost certainly a former Large Blue site, probably one known by IRP Heslop in the early 1950s.
	www.butterfly-conservation.org /species/large_blue/about.html (401 words)

	Mendip District Council - Mendip Countryside
		To the north and west of the District are the Mendip Hills themselves.
		But, because the the hills rise steeply from sea level in the south and west and overlook the chalk plains of Wiltshire to the east, their summits offer spectacular, panoramic views towards Exmoor, the South Wales Coast and Salisbury Plain.
		The folds in the hills have created many picturesque combes and valleys in which mellow, stone-walled villages nestle.
	www.mendip.gov.uk /ArticleL.asp?id=SXE246-A7800086 (434 words)

	Somerset, The South of England
		The interior consists of ranges of hills separated by valleys, or by extensive low marshy flats.
		The principal ranges are the Mendip Hills, the Polden Hills, the Quantock Hills, the Brendon Hills, and Exmoor.
		The chief rivers are the Avon and the Parret (with its tributaries the Yeo or Ivel, Isle, and Tone), the former forming the boundary on the North-east, the latter traversing the centre of the county; the other streams are the Yeo, Ax, and Brue.
	www.uk.filo.pl /england_the_south_somerset.htm (390 words)

	Isle of Avalon \| Great Breech Wood
		Great Breach Wood is part of Butleigh Woods, covering the Polden Hills a few miles south of Glastonbury.
		Walking along the forestry track, you reach the centre of the forest when you reach the Wellingtonia or Sequoia tree (called Wellingtonia apparently because they were planted in the 1820s to celebrate the Duke of Wellington, a national hero and the Winston Churchill of that time).
		Both the woods and the Polden slopes are habitats for many species of butterfly, some of them rare.
	www.isleofavalon.co.uk /greatbreechwood1.html (312 words)

	National Trust \| News \| See Britain's rarest butterfly at Collard Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Collard Hill in the Polden Hills, south of Street, is the only open access site in which the public can see this rare beauty.
		This means that because of the lower survival rates of the adults in the summer of 2005 less eggs were laid at Collard Hill.
		In partnership with a local grazier, we manage Collard Hill all year round to create the conditions in which the large blue can mate and lay eggs, find hosts and the only suitable food source and, finally, take flight for a few dizzy days, before the whole process starts again.
	www.nationaltrust.org.uk /webpack/bin/webpack.exe/livebase?object=LiveBase1&itemurn=1954&mode=wbFullItem (730 words)

	Amazon.ca: A History of the County of Somerset: Books: Robert Dunning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Somerset's Polden hills divide the county's central marshlands, Sedgemoor to the south and the Brue Valley to the north.
		Most of the written sources tell the story of men from settlements on the nearby hills or isolated 'islands' who looked to those low-lying lands for food and fuel for themselves and food for their stock.
		Those sources, dating from the late Saxon period and particularly rich in the middle ages, derive largely from the archives of the former abbey of Glastonbury, main landowner in the eighteen parishes of this volume.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1904356338 (298 words)

	Fertility Farming - Appendices
		Goosegreen Farm has 180 acres all in cultivation except 11 acres of apple orchards and about 10 acres of hill and rough grazing.
		The farmstead is at an elevation of only 40 feet above sea-level and the fields slope up to the small Polden Hills.
		The soil is red marl formerly extremely heavy and difficult to work as may be seen from the fields furthest from the house that have not had the same benefit from organic methods -- particularly compost -- i.e.
	journeytoforever.org /farm_library/turner/turnerA2.html (380 words)

	Divisions Bridgwater Seavington Taunton Yeovil Wells Mendip Cadbury Frome Wellington
		The Quantock Hills to the West and the Somerset Levels to the East identifies the Division with outstanding natural beauty.
		Castle Cary District is comprised of the small towns of Castle Cary and Ansford and Bruton and the villages of Galhampton, Yarlington and Evercreech to the north and Sparkford to the south, where the famous Haynes Motor Museum is based.
		Mendip Division is situated in the lee of the Mendip Hills and is largely a rural Division serving scattered villages.
	www.girlguidingsomerset.org.uk /divisions.htm (959 words)

	History ... or bad old vibes? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		I was talking on the phone last night to a friend who had what she described as a 'spooky' experience while driving on the stretch of the A39 which runs from Junction 23 of the M5 (just north of Bridgewater) to Glastonbury, and along the ridge that is the Polden Hills.
		She has no Internet connection, so I googled for Polden Hills history, and battles, but there was so much information, I didn't know where to start.
		I had a feeling she'd picked up on a previous unpleasant happening on the Polden Hills, as she also told me she'd once visited Culloden and felt overwhelming sadness there.
	www.healthypages.net /forum/printable.asp?m=238441 (899 words)

	Land for Sale in Somerset - Vantage Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The land is ideal for equestrian use and is close to local bridleways and quiet road hacking but is within easy access of major A roads.
		The land is set in the heart of Somerset's beautiful countryside in the gently rolling Polden Hills.
		You will leave Stawell and its housing on the left, the land is situated approximately 400 yards down the road on the left hand side.
	www.vantageland.com /stawell.htm (354 words)

	The Churches Conservation Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sutton Mallet lies on Sedgemoor, at the foot of the Polden Hills, and its mediaeval church was a landmark for those crossing the moor.
		In 1827 it was rebuilt in the Georgian tradition by Richard Carver of Taunton and little has changed since then.
		The mediaeval window was reused in the small apse and the west tower remodelled with a Georgian parapet; inside is a typical arrangement of box pews, pulpit with desk and west gallery.
	www.visitchurches.org.uk /text-only/GazatteerChurch.asp?ChurchID=g_281 (76 words)

	[trikes] Rob's Grand Tour of Somerset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The gentle climb onto the Polden hills was unnoticeable!
		From Glastonbury the road skirts Street and picks up the eastern end of the Polden hills before dropping down onto another area of the Somerset Levels.
		I'd be tempted to add a Type I mountain drive to give some lower gears for the hills, as I do like heading into the hillier parts of the country.
	www.ihpva.org /pipermail/trikes/2001q2/009171.html (1185 words)

	Puriton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Puriton is a village at the westerly end of the Polden[?] hills in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, UK.
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	www.termsdefined.net /pu/puriton.html (141 words)

	Engine Wood: 4mm scale UK Model Railway Layouts,Tim Maddocks,Somerset and Dorset Railways, Bleakhouse Road
		Although the peat beds to the north of the Polden Hills was already well served by the SandDJR, the isolated areas to the south had no existing railway connections.
		The cost of the earthworks to cut through the gap in the Polden Hills near Glastonbury increased beyond financial projections and work was stopped for nearly six months in late 1899 by the contractor Algernon Cuthbertson and Sons due to non-payment of accounts.
		The South Polden Light Railway was a fully independent concern and was built by an assortment of local peat producers and farmers including the ever optimistic Mr Blenkinsop, with the intention of tapping into the growing peat market in the area.
	www.enginewood.co.uk /bleakh.htm (4998 words)

	Compton Dundon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Map sources for Compton Dundon at grid reference ST489327
		Compton Dundon is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated beside King's Sedge Moor and the Polden Hills
		Just outside the village is Dundon Hill, an iron age hill fort, with two metre (6.5ft) defences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Compton_Dundon (129 words)

	Realbeer.com: Adrian Tierney-Jones
		Sadly Bridgwater Brewing Company brewed its last pint in the spring but Moor Beer Company in Ashcott on the Polden Hills has filled the breech, while the demise of Avon and the formation of North Somerset has added a couple more breweries.
		Cotleigh is based in the quiet market town of Wiveliscombe, sitting at the foothills of the Brendon Hills west of Taunton.
		By 1985, the brewery was ready to move again, this time just down the hill to what they fondly recall as the 'tin shed' - it had no power, water or drainage but was for sale at a decent price.
	www.realbeer.com /library/authors/tierney-jones-a/cotleighbrewery.php (916 words)

	Bring on the badgers! - News - Wildlife Trusts Somerset
		Badgers are the subject of a talk to Somerset Wildlife Trust’s Polden Area Group, early next month.
		The Polden Area Group began earlier this year and its inaugural meeting, at Shapwick Village Hall was very well attended.
		This is its first event based in Puriton and group chairman Claire Weston said: “We’re aiming to use venues on and around the Polden Hills, to ensure we reach as wide an audience as possible.”
	www.somersetwildlife.org /news_176.php (310 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The site consists of four low lying fields on badly disrupted Altcar 1 Series Fen peat, fed by lime rich water from the Polden hills and bordered by ditches.
		The fields were converted from arable production after SWT acquisition and rapidly acquired important wintering, spring passage and breeding bird interest, due to the flooded winter conditions and soft ground through early summer.
		In spring the reserve is used by nationally important numbers of roosting passage Whimbrel as well as passage Greenshank, Ruff and Black-tailed Godwit.
	www.hlf.org.uk /NHMFWeb/Database/datapage2.html?projectid=845 (123 words)

	Street
		It was then just a huddle of huts on the edge of the Polden Hills.
		It is a cultural centre today, with an art gallery and exhibition hall where many crafts and antique sales are held.
		Only minutes from the High Street is Ivythorne Hill, with superb views across the surrounding moors to the Mendips beyond and away to the south are the gentle Polden Hills.
	www.paul-mills.dsl.pipex.com /page136.html (426 words)

	Catcott Parish Council
		Edington is situated on the gentler northern slopes of the Polden Hills, a long but relatively low, lias limestone and clay ridge overlooking the low-
		It is one of a string of villages of Saxon and Mediaeval origin lying on the spring line of the ridge and which are related to the use of both hill and wetland area and the connections between the two.
		In Roman times a road ran along the ridge of the Poldens (now the A39) from the port of Downend (Dunball) to connect with the Fosse Way.
	www.freeweb.telco4u.net /edingtonparishcouncil (223 words)

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