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교회 묘지에 멋진 탑 바로 앞에 사랑스러운 벤치가 있습니다. 햇볕 아래서 피크닉을 즐기기에 좋은 장소입니다!

원래 색슨 대성당이었던 셔본 수도원은 수직 고딕 건축의 황금빛 석조 걸작입니다. 이곳의 명성은 부채꼴 아치형 천장으로, 아마도 영국에서 가장 오래되고 장관을 이루는 것으로, 섬세한 돌 레이스처럼 천장에 펼쳐져 있습니다. 이 수도원은 화재(1437년 다투는 수도원장과 주민들에 의해 발생), 수도원 해산, 그리고 시간의 시험을 견뎌냈습니다. 내부에는 서색슨 왕들의 무덤과 멋진 대서쪽 창문을 볼 수 있습니다. 이 수도원은 여전히 도싯의 살아있는 "등대"로, 꿀색의 햄스톤과 도시를 정의하는 고요하고 고풍스러운 위엄으로 빛나고 있습니다.

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