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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Huntspill

  

Huntspill Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Huntspill

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Huntspill history

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The first mention of Huntspill is around 796 AD, when the area was granted to Glastonbury Abbey by Aethelmund, a nobleman under King Offa of Mercia. Huntspill was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Honspil, meaning ‘Huna’s Pill’ (possibly from the Old English personal name Huna). The Welsh word Pîl, is a common element along the Somerset coast denoting a tidal inlet suitable as a harbour. The parish of Huntspill was part of the Huntspill and Puriton Hundred, The mouth of the River Brue had an extensive harbour in Roman and Saxon times, before silting up in the medieval period. A new wharf, known as Clyce Wharf, was built on the Huntspill side of the river mouth by 1904, and was used for the import of coal and the export of bricks and tiles and agricultural products. The wharf closed in 1949. The village was flooded in the Bristol Channel floods of 1607. In 1936 the village was the centre of an outbreak of Typhoid fever in which seven people died. The ancient parish of Huntspill also included the villages of East Huntspill, Hackness and Bason Bridge, east of the village of Huntspill. The western boundary of the parish was the tidal River Parrett, but changes in the course of the river left some parts of the parish on the west side of the river until 1933, when they were transferred to the civil parish of Otterhampton. In 1885 the uninhabited Stert Island in Bridgwater Bay was transferred from the parish of Stogursey to Huntspill, but the island was also transferred to Otterhampton in 1933. In 1949 the civil parish of Huntspill was abolished and divided into the civil parishes of West Huntspill and Huntspill All Saints (renamed East Huntspill in 1972) along the line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway.

You can visit Huntspill places with Walkfo Huntspill to hear history at Huntspill’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Huntspill has 20 places to visit in our interactive Huntspill map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Huntspill, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Huntspill places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Huntspill & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 20 audio facts unique to Huntspill places in an interactive Huntspill map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Huntspill Places Map
20 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Huntspill historic spots	Huntspill tourist destinations	Huntspill plaques	Huntspill geographic features
Walkfo Huntspill tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Huntspill

  

Best Huntspill places to visit

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Huntspill has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Huntspill’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Huntspill’s information audio spots:

West Huntspill West Huntspill is a settlement and civil parish about 5 miles from Bridgwater, in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset. The parish includes the village of Huntspill and the hamlet of Alstone.

ROF Bridgwater Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Bridgwater was a factory between the villages of Puriton and Woolavington in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, UK that produced high explosives for munitions. It was slightly above sea level, between the 5 and 10 metre contour lines on Ordnance Survey maps.

Steart Peninsula The Steart Peninsula (grid reference ST274459) is a peninsula in Somerset, England. At its outermost tip is Fenning Island (now joined to the mainland), at the tip of which is Stert Point (sometimes spelt Steart Point) The peninsula consists largely of low-lying flat farmland.

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