Milverton defibrillator
If you have walked past the Victoria Rooms recently you may have noticed that the nondescript blue box by the side entrance door has been replaced with a transparent circular unit. This is the cabinet
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Walks in Somerset
Are you fed-up with doing the same old walks? Walking in Somerset is the website for you! With hundreds of walks to download and print, free, it also has books of walks, contact details for
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Cheek to cheek, man to man
After just a few minutes of casual conversation with the stranger, it dawned upon me that in my early twenties, I had spent the best part of an hour of significant physical intimacy (much of
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Friday Club April update
As you know only too well we still haven’t been able to meet up with our friends in The Friday Club, but I am sure it won’t be long now before we can all get
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Milverton rainfall averages
Following on from the Garden Club’s reference to Milverton rainfall, a few more figures recorded at Houndsmoor which readers may find interesting. The annual average over the last 40 years being 82.90cm (32.64 inches), and
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Milverton recycling water centre
Living on the north east side of the village a quick walk into the countryside takes me past Wessex Water’s Milverton Water Recycling Centre (sewage treatment works). Well, it has a footpath along more than
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Your duty in the countryside
It is important that we recognise when exercising in the countryside that the land and pathways we walk over do all belong to someone. ‘Right of Way’ does not mean we have the right to
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Easter lilies
In past years the church has been decorated for Easter with lilies included in remembrance of loved ones. In 2020, and again this year we are very limited in access to church with very few
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The Broadmead family came to Milverton in the early 18 Century from Silverton in Devon where they were serge makers. Moving from serge making they took over the tannery off Fore Street which had been
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Community Cafe April update
Hello Milverton, I expect most of you will have visited our Community Cafe at some point and as we have been closed now for nearly a year, we thought it would be good to keep
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