Winsford
Winsford is a place with 270 inhabitants, 16 km southwest of Minehead in the English county of Somerset within the Exmoor National Park . In the vicinity of the place there are tombs from the Bronze Age and a menhir , which probably dates from the 5th century and was first mentioned in 1219. The place itself is mentioned in the Domesday book from 1085.
The Labor -Politiker Ernest Bevin was born in 1881 in Winsford. The psychologist Charles Samuel Myers died there in 1946.
The 2014 novel by Håkan Nesser "The Living and Dead of Winsford" is set in the southern English heathland in and around Winsford.
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The crack of a locomotive on the London and North Western Railway at Winsford 1881
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Leigh farm on Exmoor
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ N , 3 ° 34 ′ W