A Couple of Days in Somerset

We took a short trip to Somerset to visit the village of East Lyng where my Mother's Great Granfather, Francis Phillips was born.  According to the Census information he was a farmer who lived on the main road through East Lyng.  East Lyng is a small village on the Somerset levels not very far from Athelney (where, reputedly, King Alfred the Greast burned the cakes)

 The Church at East Lyng

 East Lyng Main Street

This is the only Phillips grave we found in the graveyard.  I am yet to establish if he was a relative.

This is Barrow Mump situated not far from East Lyng

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrow_Mump

http://www.palden.co.uk/leymap/burrowbridge-mump.html

http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/3244.html

Stembridge Windmill located near High Ham not far from East Lyng.  The last remaining thatched windmill in England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stembridge_Mill,_High_Ham

 Lytes Carey Manor near Charlton Mackrell in Somerset which dates back to 14th Century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytes_Cary

Spring flowers in the grounds of Lytes Carey

 Wood Anemones and Mosses on a wall

Montacute House, not far from Yeovil, a 16th century house
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montacute_House

Wall Carvings at Montacute

In the Orangery

Barrington Court near Illminster made up of a Tudor house begun around 1538 and a later stable block built around 1674 and converted into a house in the 1920s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrington_Court

 a Magnolia and a ornamental pond in the gardens

On our way  back to Saltash, we called  in at Seaton, a seaside resort on the south coast of East Devon

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaton,_Devon

Blackberry Camp, an Iron Age Hill Fort near Seaton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbury_Camp