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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Outstanding copy of this book. See images.

About the book >.>.> By the late 11th century the settlement pattern was dense especially between the Quantocks and the Par- rett an area crossed by the Saxon ‘herpath’ in the north and including the 10th-century strongholds of Athelney and Lyng in the south and the Domesday royal manors of Can- nington North Petherton and Creech St. Michael. The origin of the medieval royal park at North Petherton can be traced to a pre- Conquest royal forest on the Quantocks and North Petherton was an extensive minster parish. Bridgwater a chartered borough from 1200 is the only significant town. By the later Middle Ages its port served central south and west Somerset and until the 19th century heavy goods continued to be transported along the Parrett the Tone and the Bridgwater and Taunton canal into Dorset and Devon. The pattern of settlement is varied with a few nucleated villages roadside villages and many dispersed hamlets. Interlocking parish boundaries indicate complex economic units and late parochial formation. (MP)