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教会の墓地には、壮大な塔の正面に素敵なベンチがあります。日当たりの良い場所でのピクニックに最適です！

元はザクセン人の大聖堂であったシェボーン修道院は、垂直ゴシック建築の金色の石造りの傑作です。その名声の源は、扇形ヴォールトであり、おそらくイングランドで最も初期かつ最も壮観なもので、繊細な石のレースのように天井に広がっています。 修道院は、火災（1437年に喧嘩好きな修道院長と町の人々によって引き起こされた）、修道院解散令、そして時の試練を乗り越えてきました。内部には、ウェセックス王の墓と見事なグレート・ウェスト・ウィンドウがあります。それは、蜂蜜色のハムストーンで輝き、町を定義する静かで古代の威厳を持つ、ドーセットの生きた「灯台」であり続けています。

Great breakfast and coffee.

I always make time to pop in on my walks in this area as it is wonderfully calming and peaceful. I like to just sit and marvel at the talent of the architecture.

Quirky little spot and lovely garden

Be patient at busy times.

can get busy but plenty of seats inside and out lovely walk or ride along the river

The vanquishing of a royalist army in the south-west by the New Model Army further reduced the King's military capabilities and hastened his ultimate defeat. The New Model Army approached the small town of Langport from the east. It was a key bridging point where the major road from Somerton passed between two large areas of wet moorland. This was a logical place for the royalists to make a stand, or at least to try to hold up the parliamentarians in order to enable retreat, via Sedgemoor, to the port of Brridgewater. Goring sent his baggage and artillery ahead towards the port, keeping only two pieces of ordnance with the army. He then turned and marched out to the east of Langport, to face the parliamentarian army. Though he held a strong position, on high ground controlling the roads that approached the town from the east, his forces were still outnumbered and outgunned and were soon defeated. Although the royalist army was not destroyed at Langport, the defeat was to have a significant effect upon troop morale. As Goring admitted: 'the consequences of this blow is very much for there is so great terror and dejection amongst our men that I am confident at this present they could not be brought to fight against half their number’. Bridgwater fell soon after, isolating the remaining royalist garrisons in the West Country. Three alternative locations have been suggested for the battle along the Wagg Rhyne. Archaeological research by the Battlefields Trust in 2021 and 2023 indicates that the location of the battle is that registered by Historic England on either side of the B3153. The reports of these metal detecting surveys are available for download in the File Download section on the left of this webpage. Most of the landscape here is still agricultural but there has been some development, especially on the southern site, while there is continuing small scale erosion of the battlefield by small scale development right across this landscape. There is no on site interpretation or monument at the registered battlefield site, though an information board is located at Huish Episcopi on the A372. The Wagg Drove is a quiet narrow lane with verges running a little to the side of the Rhyne, giving public access across part of the battlefield. Furpits Lane, where there is some limited parking and public footpaths south east of Hamdown House and the Wagg Rhyne also enable the battlefield to be explored. The B3153 is a very busy, fast road with no verges. Although it is possible approach the point where the road crosses the Rhyne by walking along the Wagg Drove, it is not recommended to attempt to walk along the main road itself. A leaflet describing a battlefield walk at Langport can be downloaded from the panel on the left. https://www.battlefieldstrust.com/resource-centre/battleview.asp?BattleFieldId=20