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Bridgwater & Albion are Somerset's highest-placed rugby team, playing in National League 3 South and are based at College Way. [160] It was founded in 1875. [161] The cricket club play at The Parks on Durleigh Road. [162] Bridgwater Hockey Club was founded in 1925 and field four men's teams and three women's teams, playing fixtures at 1610 ...
The Blake Museum works closely with the Bridgwater Heritage Group, which was established in 2012 by the late Dr Peter Cattermole [12] to publish detailed illustrated accounts online of the town's lost buildings. Dr Cattermole was the museum's first Honorary Curator after its return to the town council, in 2009.
The museum is dedicated to the Brick and Tile Industry of Somerset. Bridgwater had been a centre of trade and industry since the Middle Ages, benefiting from local clay from the alluvial deposits of the River Parrett to make bricks and tiles. In the 1840s there were 1,300 people in Bridgwater employed making bricks and tiles. [1] [2]
Sydenham House, west front, in 2015 Sydenham House, south side, in 2015 "Sydenham Manor" shown to the north-east of the historic centre of Bridgwater in a 1946 map. Sydenham House, the manor house of the ancient manor of Sydenham in the parish of Wembdon, [1] Somerset, England, is a grade II listed building, [2] constructed in the early 16th century and refronted and rebuilt after 1613. [3]
The trust is also responsible for three local museums: The Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury, [6] the Museum of Somerset in Taunton [7] and The Brick and Tile Museum in Bridgwater. [8] Workshops and resources are also available to local schools. [9] Courses are provided which include those on searching family history and reading old handwriting ...
Bridgwater Friary was a Franciscan monastery in Bridgwater, Somerset, England, established in 1245 and dissolved in 1538. It was founded by William Briwere and moved from another location. Further buildings were added in 1278 and 1284. [1] The church was rebuilt in the 15th century and consecrated in 1445. [2]
Bridgwater, town and civil parish in Somerset Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency) which existed from 1885 to 2010; Bridgwater and West Somerset (UK Parliament constituency), current constituency for this area; RHS Garden Bridgewater, Greater Manchester; Bridgewater, Banbridge, a development in County Down, Northern Ireland
Huntworth is a small hamlet and farming community (population approximately 50), within the civil parish of North Petherton 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the M5 motorway 3 miles (4.8 km) from Bridgwater, Somerset, England. Huntworth was in the news on 5/12/19 as it was the epicentre of a 3.2 magnitude earthquake.