From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:
- ... that medieval Perpendicular Gothic Somerset Towers typically feature pinnacles, lacy tracery windows and bell openings, gargoyles, arches, buttresses, merlons, and external stair turrets?
- ... that Gants Mill is an historic watermill now generating hydroelectric power from the River Brue?
- ... that the village of Selworthy was rebuilt by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland in 1828 as a Model village for the aged and infirm of his Holnicote Estate?
- ... that Midford Castle was built in the shape of the ace of clubs (♣)?
- ... that Porlock Bay in England contains a submerged forest?