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Somerset (pronunciación ⓘ; AFI /ˈsʌməˌsɛtʲ/) es un condado ceremonial y, excluyendo las autoridades unitarias de North Somerset y Bath and North East Somerset, un condado no metropolitano [1] [2] de origen histórico ubicado en el Suroeste de Inglaterra. Su capital o county town es Taunton, localidad situada en el sur del condado.
Somerset (/ ˈ s ʌ m ər s ɪ t,-s ɛ t / ⓘ SUM-ər-sit, -set; archaically Somersetshire / ˈ s ʌ m ər s ɪ t. ʃ ɪər,-s ɛ t-,-ʃ ər / SUM-ər-sit-sheer, -set-, -shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
Hace 4 días · Somerset, administrative, geographic, and historic county of southwestern England. It is bordered to the northwest by the Bristol Channel, to the north by Gloucestershire, to the east by Wiltshire, to the southeast by Dorset, and to the southwest by Devon. Taunton, in west-central Somerset, is the county town (seat).
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Somerset es un condado ceremonial y, excluyendo las autoridades unitarias de North Somerset y Bath and North East Somerset, un condado no metropolitano de origen histórico ubicado en el Suroeste de Inglaterra. Su capital o county town es Taunton, localidad situada en el sur del condado.
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The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods saw hunter-gatherers move into the region of Somerset. There is evidence from flint artefacts in a quarry at Westbury that an ancestor of modern man, possibly Homo heidelbergensis, was present in the area from around 500,000 years ago. There is still some doubt about whether the artefacts are of human origin ...
There is evidence of Exmoor's human occupation from Mesolithic times onwards. In the Neolithic period people started to manage animals and grow crops on farms cleared from the woodland, rather than act purely as hunter gatherers. It is also likely that extraction and smelting of mineral ores to make tools, weapons, containers and ornaments in bronz...
Somerset was part of the Roman Empire from 47 AD to about 409 AD. However, the end was not abrupt and elements of Romanitaslingered on for perhaps a century. Somerset was invaded from the south-east by the Second Legion Augusta, under the future emperor Vespasian. The hillforts of the Durotriges at Ham Hill and Cadbury Castle were captured. Ham Hil...
This is the period from about 409 AD to the start of Saxon political control, which was mainly in the late 7th century, though they are said to have captured the Bath area in 577 AD. Initially the Britons of Somerset seem to have continued much as under the Romans but without the imperial taxation and markets. There was then a period of civil war i...
This is the period from the late 7th century (for most of Somerset) to 1066, though for part of the 10th and 11th centuries England was under Danish control. Somerset, like Dorsetto the south, held the West Saxon advance from Wiltshire/Hampshire back for over a century, remaining a frontier between the Saxons and the Romano-British Celts. The Saxon...
This is the period from 1066 to around 1500. Following the defeat of the Saxons by the Normans in 1066, various castles were set up in Somerset by the new lords such as that at Dunster, and the manors was awarded to followers of William the Conqueror such as William de Moyon and Walter of Douai. Somerset does not seem to have played much part in th...
This is the period from around 1500 to 1800. In the 1530s, the monasteries were dissolved and their lands bought from the king by various important families in Somerset. By 1539, Glastonbury Abbey was the only monastery left, its abbot Richard Whiting was then arrested and executed on the orders of Thomas Cromwell. From the Tudor to the Georgian ti...
The 19th century saw improvements to Somerset's roads with the introduction of turnpikes and the building of canals and railways. The usefulness of the canals was short-lived, though they have now been restored for recreation. The railways were nationalised after the Second World War, but continued until 1965, when smaller lines were scrapped; two ...
Samuel Tymms (1832). "Somersetshire". Western Circuit. The Family Topographer: Being a Compendious Account of the ... Counties of England. Vol. 2. London: J.B. Nichols and Son. OCLC 2127940.Armitage, Joseph Armitage (1921). Somerset Historical Essays . Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press.Porter, H.M. (1967). The Saxon Conquest of Somerset and Devon. Bath, Somerset: James Brodie Ltd.Underdown, David (1973). Somerset in the Civil War and Interregnum. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5805-7.Somerset is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east and the north-east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. The largest settlement is the city of Bath, and the county town is Taunton.
Bath ( RP: / bɑːθ /; [2] local pronunciation: [ba (ː)θ] [3]) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, [4] England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths. At the 2021 Census, the population was 94,092. [1] . Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, 97 miles (156 km) west of London and 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Bristol.
