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- ... that during
World War II,
Shepton Mallet (pictured), the oldest operating
prison in
Britain, was used as the protective storage of important government documents including the
Magna Carta and
Domesday Book?
- ... that the
Shapwick Hoard, found by
metal detecting cousins in 1998, contained the largest number of silver
denarii ever found in
Great Britain and was equivalent to ten years' pay for a
Roman legionary?
- ... that the village of
Sharpham in
Somerset, is the birthplace of Elizabethan poet Sir
Edward Dyer, writer
Henry Fielding and cleric
William Gould?
- ... that
Simonsbath House was the only house in the Royal Forest of
Exmoor for 150 years?
- ... that the only working, full sized,
Caisson lock ever built, was on the
Somerset Coal Canal at
Combe Hay,
Somerset in
England between 1795 and 1805?