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From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:

... that the 13th-century Hanging Chapel (pictured) in Langport has been a town hall, grammar school, museum and armoury before becoming a masonic hall?
... that Bridgwater Bay is the location of the last mudhorse fisherman in England?
... that when Farleigh Hungerford Castle was fortified from an existing manor house between 1370 and 1380, it was done without the appropriate "licence to crenellate" from the king?
... that Meare Pool was an important source of fish for Glastonbury Abbey before being drained between 1500 and 1750?
... that the busiest route of the Weston-super-Mare Tramways ran from an Old Pier to a Sanatorium?