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    Nether Stowey is a large village in Somerset, South West England. It sits in the foothills of the Quantock Hills (England's first Area of Outstanding Natural...
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    Stowey is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Stowey Sutton, in the Bath and North East Somerset district, in the ceremonial...
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    Over Stowey is a small village and civil parish in Somerset, South West England. A large part of the forest and open heath of the Quantock Hills is within...
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    Stowey-Sutton is a civil parish in the Bath and North East Somerset District of Somerset, England within the Chew Valley. The parish contains the villages...
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    Stowey Castle (or Nether Stowey Castle known locally as The Mount) was a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, built in the 11th century, in the village of...
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    The Anglican Parish Church of St Nicholas and the Blessed Virgin Mary at Stowey within the English county of Somerset dates from the 13th century. It is...
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    ISBN 978-1897689004. "Nether Stowey Castle orientation leaflet" (PDF). Quantock Online. Retrieved 11 March 2008. "Stowey Castle, Nether Stowey". Somerset Historic...
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  • on location at Amherst Lodge in Ealing, which doubled as the care home Stowey House, during Summer 2001. The building, which was a former maternity home...
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    House, Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridge's home in Nether Stowey. Together Wordsworth and Coleridge (with insights from Dorothy) produced...
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    The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin in Nether Stowey in the English county of Somerset has a 15th-century tower, with the remainder of the church...
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    is a children's hymn written by Jan Struthers and set to a folk melody (Stowey) and harmonised by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The hymn first appeared in Songs...
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    kept from 1799 to 1818. The diary chronicles his life as the vicar of Over Stowey, Somerset. In a similar fashion to the diary of Thomas Turner, Holland's...
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  • on the borders of the Quantocks, in Somerset, and midway between Nether Stowey and Alfoxden. Nichols travelled frequently in foreign countries, and was...
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  • the lives of the children living in the fictional children's care home of Stowey House, nicknamed by them "The Dumping Ground". It consists of twenty-six...
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    Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote while staying in Coleridge Cottage, Nether Stowey. The novelist John Cowper Powys (1872–1963) lived in the Somerset village...
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    is an earthwork which has been scheduled as an ancient monument in Over Stowey, Somerset, England situated on the Quantock Hills. A linear earthwork consisting...
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    house has been designated as Grade II* listed building. The house is at Stowey in the Chew Valley in an area of Somerset now part of Bath and North East...
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    at Adscombe by the monks of Athelney Abbey. In 1535 Johan Broke of Over Stowey bequeathed one sheep to 'Our Lady of Addescombe' - this is the earliest...
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  • he may have built the castle at Nether Stowey or possibly an earlier one which has disappeared at Over Stowey. Much of his land was the pre-conquest estate...
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    the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Strachey was born on 1 March 1880 at Stowey House, Clapham Common, London, the fifth son and 11th child of Lieutenant...
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    during which he lived in what is now known as Coleridge Cottage, in Nether Stowey, Somerset, were among the most fruitful of Coleridge's life. In 1795, Coleridge...
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  • Over Stowey in Somerset. It has variously been used as an estate, a sanatorium and a school. In 1833, Lord Taunton purchased the estates of Over Stowey from...
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  • Henry Strachey Born (1772-12-06)December 6, 1772 Died April 11, 1858(1858-04-11) (aged 85) Sutton Court, Stowey, Somerset, England...
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    poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge starting from Coleridge Cottage at Nether Stowey. Originally the route finished at Porlock but on 21 May 2014 an extension...
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  • Moorlinch, Muchelney, Mudford, Mudford Sock Nailsea, Nempnett Thrubwell, Nether Stowey, Nettlebridge, Nettlecombe, Newton St Loe, North Barrow, North Bradon, North...
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    He also took part in the campaign to buy the Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey for the nation. He provided this epitaph Stranger, beneath this roof in...
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    St Peter And St Paul in Over Stowey, Somerset, England, is the Anglican parish church for the ancient parish of Over Stowey, now part of the Quantock Villages...
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    England: North Somerset and Bristol. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071013-2. Shellar, P.J.B., Stowey Parish Church. A Brief History, Stowey Parish Church...
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    a series in which Tracy (Dani Harmer) returns to the "Dumping Ground" (Stowey House, whose name has been changed to Elm Tree House) to earn money for...
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    who disrupt inspired creativity. In 1797, Coleridge was living at Nether Stowey, a village in the foothills of the Quantocks. However, due to ill health...
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