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	Independent School Search
		Boarding School for Girls in the UK - Bruton School for Girls Somerset- overseas education UK - Somerset Sixth Form Girls College - Boarding Schools in the UK - All Girls School in Somerset
		Taunton School is a Boarding School & Day School for boys & Girls aged 2 to 18 located in Somerset, England UK http://www.tauntonschool.co.uk/
		Kings College is a co-educational public school in the West of England with around 450 pupils.
	www.independentschools.com /search/search.php?keyword=Somerset&action=search (356 words)

	Frontier Youth Trust - REACT Project
		RE-ACT is funded by Connexions Somerset, Frontier Youth Trust and the Diocese of Bath and Wells.
		The six-month pilot project is a partnership between Frontier Youth Trust, Bath and Wells’ Diocese and Connexions, Somerset.
		RE-ACT is a partnership between Frontier Youth Trust and the Diocese of Bath and Wells Youth and Children’s Team.
	www.fyt.org.uk /react.html (356 words)

	Bed & Breakfast, Priddy, Wells, Somerset, UK
		Bed & Breakfast, Priddy, Wells, Somerset, UK web hosting
		Debbie and Spencer welcome you to Highcroft; set in 3 acres of gardens and grounds and enjoying superb views of the countryside from an idyllic location on the Mendip hills, just 3 miles from the historic City of Wells.
	members.fortunecity.co.uk /spencerjrussell (635 words)

	Wellington Somerset Genealogy
		The town of Wells, situated on the road from Bath to Exeter, given by King Alfred to Bishop Asser, afterwards came to the see of Wells, and later to the families of Somerset and Popham.
		Materials for the History of the Town and Parish of Wellington in the County of Somerset..
		A sermon, preached September 13th, 1813, in the Parish Church, Wellington, in the County of Somerset...
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/SOM/Wellington (301 words)

	Signalling at Wells
		The WELLS 'A' signal-box remained in use to control the revised layout, but eventually it was closed on 2-December-1955 when control of the former junction and remaining signals passed to EAST SOMERSET box, where a replacement 27-lever frame was installed to work the new layout.
		The SCR approached Wells from the south-west and their terminus was situated immediately to the west of Priory Road.
		These were superseded by Electric Key Token (EKT) on the EAST SOMERSET - SHEPTON MALLET section by 1948 and between Tucker Street and Cheddar in 1954, after closure of the intervening signal-boxes at Wookey and Lodge Hill.
	www.trainweb.org /railwest/railco/gwr/wells.html (301 words)

	Glastonbury Somerset - Bed and Breakfast
		Glastonbury and Wells lie across the Somerset Levels and are about 40 minutes drive from us.
		Wells - the city on the Somerset Levels
		Before the Somerset Levels were drained for farming King Arthur's "Isle of Avalon" rose up out of the sea and St Michael's tower (photo) could be seen from scores of miles away.
	www.applerydon.co.uk /glastonbury.html (253 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: England: Somerset: Wells
		Wells, Somerset- Informal guide to Englands smallest Cathedral city with pictures and links to local attractions.
		Wells Cathedral School - Description of the school and its activities.
		ADSL Broadband in Wells - Encourages, explains and monitors the registration process for ADSL broadband in the city.
	dmoz.org /Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Somerset/Wells (203 words)

	Have a Somerset Break at Sumach House, near Bath and Wells Somerset UK for a country holiday in South West England.
		Have a Somerset Break at Sumach House, near Bath and Wells Somerset UK for a country holiday in South West England.
		It is situated 6 miles north of Wells and 15 miles south of Bath.
		There is a choice of good country pubs or restaurants close by, with a pub in walking distance.
	www.somersetbreak.co.uk (167 words)

	Wells Guide, Your Guide to Places to Stay in Wells
		Set at the foot of the magnificent rolling Mendip Hills in Somerset, Wells is the smallest city in England, and one of the most beautiful in Britain.
		This section of Resort-Guide.co.uk features the following businesses in Wells, Somerset.
		As you walk through the town you will notice water flowing in the gutter to the side of the pavement, this town centre 'stream' is fed continuously by the city's wells and was used by the townspeople of medieval Wells for their laundry.
	www.resort-guide.co.uk /servlist.php3?destcode=111&service=hote (624 words)

	Combs &c. Families of Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England
		Combe St. Nicholas, a parish in the eastern division of the hundred of Kingsbury, county of Somerset, 2½ miles NW of Chard in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Wells (Lewis, 1831...) is 4 miles northeast of Ashill
		Nicholas, peculiar of Bath and Wells" [County Somerset] declared he wished to be buried in the church or churchyard of said parish; named his sister Maute MEERES, her daughters, Margt.
		Nicholas, Co Somerset, EN for the MA Colony, voyaging on the Mary and John, which departed from Plymouth 20 Mar 1630, with Edward ROSSITER listed as a settler and stockholder in Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he died the same year.
	www.combs-families.org /combs/records/england/som/combestnicholas.htm (756 words)

	Newsletters_1998
		Roslyn Wells, a founding member of Somerset's School Council and wife of the school's founding Head, C.R. (Rod) Wells, is engaged in organizing a very interesting International Conference in Grafton in 1999.
		Somerset College is situated in the hinterland of the Gold Coast.
		Somerset's Captain of Sport, Sarah Wirth, wrote the following letter on behalf of the school community to the Commonwealth Games Australian Team Members, which was sent as a Heronet on Tuesday.
	www.somerset.qld.edu.au /newsletters/Newsletters_1998 (756 words)

	Wells Millennium Tapestry at Wells Town Hall, Wells, Somerset, UK
		Wells Millennium Tapestry at Wells Town Hall, Wells, Somerset, UK A Millennium tapestry created by the Adult Education Community Classes in Wells, Somerset UK
		The Wells Millennium Tapestry is permanently on display in Wells Town Hall and can be viewed in the Parkes room on the first floor (there is a passenger lift for those less able).
		If you would like to view the tapestries at a different time, then contact the Town Hall Manager on 01749 673091, or call in and he will be pleased to open the room for you.
	www.wellstapestry.co.uk (181 words)

	Wells City Badminton Club based in Wells, Somerset, England. Ladies needed.
		We are Wells City Badminton Club based in Bishop's Barn, Wells, Somerset, England.
		Wells City Badminton Club based in Wells, Somerset, England.
		We are a small, friendly club who also play in a league and are always interested in attracting more members.
	members.fortunecity.com /wellscitybadminton (120 words)

	British History Online - Somerset
		Somerset's Polden hills divide the county's central marshlands, Sedgemoor to the south and the Brue Valley to the north.
		The history of the south-east corner of Somerset, comprising the outliers of Salisbury Plain on the east and part of a clay vale to the west.
		A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6
	www.british-history.ac.uk /place.asp?placeid=3619 (403 words)

	Bath & Mendip Explorer linear walk
		Dundas is also where the canal meets with the Somerset Coal Canal, which now provides moorings for many pleasure craft.
		Wells Cathedral is a must for every visitor as is the famous market town of Glastonbury with its Abbey ruins.
		Then on through the rolling Mendip Hills to Wells, England’s smallest city, lying in the lee of the Mendips and renowned for its medieval heritage.
	www.bathwestwalks.com /walks/linearbased/bme.htm (403 words)

	Wells Cathedral School,,The Liberty,WELLS,an independent school with boarding places,in Somerset,England
		Wells Cathedral School : an independent school with boarding places, in Somerset which can be contacted at :
		Wells Cathedral School,,The Liberty,WELLS,an independent school with boarding places,in Somerset,England
		The information on Wells Cathedral School is limited but if you do contact them please let them know you located them via D'Arch's Internet Guide to UK Boarding Schools.
	www.darch.co.uk /otherschools/Wells-Cathedral-School.html (211 words)

	Devon local studies service. Place catalogue. County. Place
		The Somerset Diocese : Bath and Wells / by William Hunt.
		Inventory of Parochial Documents in the Diocese of Bath & Wells & the County of Somerset, Book 1, edited by J.E.King.
		A sermon preach'd before...Parliament in the cathedral church of St.Paul...July 7, 1713 / by George Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.
	www.devon.gov.uk /library/locstudy/placeais.html (211 words)

	WELLS - Online Information article about WELLS
		SOMERSET, ROBERT CARR (or KER), EARL OF (e.
		BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf.
		ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /WAT_WIL/WELLS.html (211 words)

	2003_09_Contracts.doc
		Joan Lundin Properties), Ridge and Fox Townships, Elk County S & T Service and Supply, Inc., Pleasantville, PA 16341 $ 24,640.00 BOGM 02-25 Cleaning Out and Plugging Two (2) Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells (Ms.
		Hydrocarbon Well Services, Inc., Buckhannon, WV $ 187,575.00 BOGM 01-17 Clean Out and Plug Eighty Three (83) Abandoned and Orphan Oil and Gas Wells, Mr.
		John J. Frydrych and the Westmoreland Conservancy Properties), Allegheny, Penn and North Huntingdon Townships and the Borough of Murrysville Westmoreland County.
	www.dep.state.pa.us /dep/SUBJECT/ADVCOUN/MINREC/MRAB_2003/2003_09_Contracts.doc (687 words)

	Wells, Vermont, New England, USA
		Named for Wells, Somerset, England, which, in Benning Wentworth's time, was known for a small but particularly lovely cathedral dating from the 13th and 14th Centuries, and as a manufacturing center for woolen broadcloth.
		Do you have a question or comment about Wells?
		Katharine R. Bergen, 802-645-0486, PO Box 585 Wells, VT 05774
	www.virtualvermont.com /towns/wells.html (225 words)

	Wells the complete guide for visitors to and residents of Wells UK the only City in Somerset and the smallest in England.
		Wells the complete guide for visitors to and residents of Wells UK the only City in Somerset and the smallest in England.
		Where to find things in Wells City, shops and services click here.
		See photographs of the beautiful City of Wells.
	www.wells-uk.com (142 words)

	Wells - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wells is a small city and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset.
		Wells is a popular tourist destination, due in large part to having several historical sites and its proximity to Bath, Stonehenge and other popular sites.
		This article is about the city of Wells in England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wells (203 words)

	Wells Cathedral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wells Cathedral is a cathedral in Wells, Somerset, the smallest cathedral city in England.
		The wells that the Romans knew, rededicated to Saint Andrew, still spring abundantly in the Bishop's garden and fill the moat of the Bishop's Palace, where dwell the famous bell-ringing Mute Swans, trained in the 19th century to pull on chains attached below a window to a small bell, for a reward in food.
		Wells is largely of late 12th and early 13th century date.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wells_Cathedral (203 words)

	Wells : Wells, England
		Wells is also the only city in the county of Somerset.
		Wells is reputed to be England's smallest city, with a population of only 10,000.
		Parts of its cathedral (widely considered one of the most beautiful in England) date back to the 10th century, and one of its streets, Vicars' Close, is reputed to be the oldest continually-inhabited street in Europe.
	www.city-search.org /we/wells,-england.html (442 words)

	Wells, England - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Wells, England
		Cathedral city and market town in Somerset, southwest England, at the foot of the Mendip Hills; population (1991) 9,900.
		The bishop's palace, the residence of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, is moated and surrounded by a defensive wall.
		Wells was made the seat of a bishopric about 909 (Bath and Wells from 1244) and has a 13th-century bishop's palace.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Wells,+England (219 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Wells (England)
		Wells (England), municipal borough, market town, and ancient cathedral city in the county of Somerset, England.
		Wells is located at the foot of the...
		Search for books about your topic, "Wells (England)"
	encarta.msn.com /Wells_(England).html (120 words)

	Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
		Somerset is not alone in the fact that it contains no cities and equally not alone in the fact that this apparent deficit is more than adequately atoned for by the presence of some wonderful market towns.
		Somerset is known worldwide as the home of Cider and indeed Cider production is ranked second only to dairy farming as the main industry.
		Holwell is Somerset detached in Dorset and administered by both Dorset County and West Dorset District councils.
	www.camelotintl.com /heritage/counties/england/somerset.html (927 words)

	Alford Somerset Genealogy
		"ALFORD, a parish in the hundred of Catsash, in the county of Somerset, 2 miles to the W. of Castle Cary.
		The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Bath and Wells, value, with that of Hornblotton, £788, in the patronage of the Rev. J.
		Details of Somerset Record Office holdings relating to this parish.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/SOM/Alford (131 words)

	Wells Cathedral
		Situated in the gentle county of Somerset &; with its name originating from the three springs in the grounds of the old Bishops Palace – Wells is one of England& smaller cathedrals.
		Although the diocese was first created in the early 10th century, during 1088 the see was transferred to Bath and it wasn’t until mid 13th century that Wells regained cathedral status.
		I was first taken to Wells as an impressionable child and was quite simply overwhelmed by its sheer beauty and ‘magical’ atmosphere.
	www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /cathedrals/wells_cathedral.htm (131 words)

	Science Museum The Wells Cathedral Clock The clock
		The clock was installed at Wells Cathedral in Somerset towards the end of the 14th century.
		As well as telling the time on a 24-hour dial, it shows the motion of the Sun and Moon in the sky, the phase of the Moon and the number of days since the last new Moon.
		The transept containing the face was not open to the public in the early 14th century and the Cathedral does not seem to have received many visitors in the 14th and 15th centuries.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /on-line/wells-clock/page2.asp (131 words)

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