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Large numbers of cattle and sheep are kept, and Exmoor ponies and red deer roam on the open moorland in the west of the county. [1] Coal was at one time mined in the county; the Somerset Coalfield stretched from Cromhall to the Mendips, and from Nailsea to Bath. The last two pits, at Kilmersdon and Writhlington, closed in 1973. [32]
Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.
Site name Reason for designation Area Grid reference [B] Year in which notified Map [C] Biological interest Geological interest Hectares Acres Aller and Beer Woods Y 56.9 140.6 ST404305 1952 Map Aller Hill Y 18.4 45.4 ST408291 1988 Map Asham Wood Y 141.6 347.5 ST705460 1963 Map Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill Y 67.1 160.1 ST433555 1990 Map Babcary Meadows Y 13.6 31.6 ST567293 1988 Map River Barle ...
Most of the highway is within the city limits of Somerset due to annexations made by city government. The road passes through farm fields and comes to an intersection with KY 80 /KY 6014. Here, KY 80 turns south to form a concurrency with KY 914, and the two routes head through a mix of farmland and woodland with some development.
This is a list of settlements in Somerset by population based on the results of the 2011 census. The next United Kingdom census will take place in 2021 . In 2011, there were 28 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in Somerset , shown in the table below.
Porlock Hill is a road west of Porlock, Somerset. It is part of the A39, connecting Porlock to Lynmouth and Barnstaple in Devon and is the steepest A-road in the United Kingdom, approaching 1 in 4 (25%) in places. A toll road is available which connects the same two endpoints at the top and bottom of the hill at an easier gradient.
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Somerset has a high white British population, with 94.6% registering as white British, and 2.0% as belonging to Black and ethnic minority (BME) groups, according to the 2011 Census. [94] Over 25% of Somerset's population is concentrated in Taunton, Bridgwater and Yeovil. The rest of the county is rural and sparsely populated.