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The Exmoor White Horse Inn

The story and history of a 16th Century Inn owned by a couple for the past 35 years.

• 8 mins

The lost village of Clicket

The Exmoor village was abandoned more than a hundred years ago.

• 8 mins

The Bakery that disappeared from the A303

The Bakery in West Camel no longer sits on the A303 due to the new road layout.

• 10 mins

The Witch of Wookey Hole

Exploring the caves and the legend of the witch of Wookey Hole.

• 9 mins

The D-Day air support

Discover the role the South West’s airfields played in D-Day.

• 6 mins

The gothic mansion that became a TB Sanatorium

Quantock Lodge was built in the 1800s for the-then MP of Taunton, Henry Labouchere.

• 9 mins

The burning city on the Mendips

Lights and fires were used to trick German bombers into thinking they’d reached Bristol.

• 8 mins

The Pauper Lunatic Asylum Cemetery

The cemetery is the final resting place for inmates and staff from the asylum.

• 9 mins

The coal miner who ended up in a lunatic asylum

Mark Whitcomb and the Furman sisters are remembered at the Mendip Hospital Cemetery.

• 8 mins

How Cheddar inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings

The author first visited the picturesque area of Somerset on his honeymoon in 1916.

• 5 mins

Taunton’s Tudor Tavern

The town's oldest listed domestic building is now a café.

• 8 mins

The Exmoor pub with famous connections

A president, a spy and a tragic ghost – the history of The Royal Oak in Withypool.

• 9 mins

In the cockpit of Concorde

The story of Yeovilton’s Concorde at the Fleet Air Arm Museum.

• 10 mins

The hidden past of Exmoor’s WW2 training site

A radar station and archaeological remains can be found on the North Hill site.

• 9 mins

Old Mother Leakey: the ghost of Minehead

A ghost, a bishop and mysterious shipwrecks around Minehead harbour.

• 10 mins

The Somerset bank with its own banknotes

It’s said Stuckey’s banknotes had a circulation second only to the Bank of England.

• 5 mins

The witchcraft trial of Julian Cox

Julian Cox was the last person to be executed in Taunton for witchcraft in 1663.

• 7 mins

The bootmaker whose inventions changed lives

Chard's James Gillingham found his calling after a local man was injured in an accident.

• 7 mins

The WW2 hero who didn’t carry a weapon

Arturo Fanconi from Ilminster was posthumously awarded the Albert Medal for saving lives.

• 7 mins