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Nether Stowey is a large village in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, South West England.
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In 1797, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved to Alfoxton House, Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridge's home in Nether Stowey.
Robert Persons ( 24 June 1546, Nether Stowey, Somerset – 15 April 1610, Rome ), later known as Robert Parsons, was an English Jesuit priest.
The parish of Nether Stowey covers approximately 4 km², with a population of 1, 423 ( 2001 census ).
Nether Stowey may have been a borough as early as 1157 or 1158 but by 1225 it is officially recorded as such.
During the " Bloody Assizes " in the autumn of 1685, in the aftermath of Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion men from Nether Stowey who were caught up in the rebellion are said to have been hanged, drawn and quartered in the village after they were sentenced to death by Judge Jeffries.
Thomas Poole was a local tanner who became wealthy and founded the Nether Stowey Women's Friendly Society in 1807.
The village is twinned with Theillay in the Loir-et-Cher départment of France, and the Nether Stowey Twinning Association was established in 1996 by Glyn Legge and Steve Darch.
Every year Theillay and Nether Stowey organise an annual trip to each village ( Taking turns every year ).
In 1797 he contributed additional blank verse to the second edition, and met the Wordsworths, William and Dorothy, on his short summer holiday with Coleridge at Nether Stowey, thereby also striking up a lifelong friendship with William.
The route begins in Nether Stowey and crosses the Quantocks, the Brendon Hills and Exmoor before finishing in Porlock.
* Coleridge Way, from Nether Stowey in the Quantocks across the Brendon Hills and the fringes of Exmoor National Park to the coast at Porlock.
The Coleridge Way is a footpath which follows the walks taken by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Porlock, starting from Coleridge Cottage at Nether Stowey, where he once lived.
The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who lived nearby at Nether Stowey ( between Bridgwater and Minehead ), was interrupted during composition of his poem Kubla Khan by " a person on business from Porlock ", and found afterward he could not remember what had come to him in a dream.
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The long level stretch continues past several villages including Nether Heyford and Weedon Bec and is very rural in character.
The river now flows towards Northampton, passing through Flore and Nether Heyford, where it is joined by small streams on either bank.
Nether Poppleton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of the City of York in North Yorkshire, England.
There is only one other church in Britain dedicated to this saint, at Nether Poppleton, City of York.
It is situated by the West bank of the River Ouse adjacent to Nether Poppleton, and west of York close to the A59 from York to Harrogate.
Nether Poppleton Tithebarn is a tithe barn at Manor Farm in the village of Nether Poppleton in the unitary authority of City of York in the North of England.
As of 2011, Nether Hall Park a new residential housing development, occupying a substantial part of the estate, is in course of completion.
The river gives its name to the city of Exeter and many other settlements along its course, including Exford, Up Exe, Nether Exe, Exwick, Exton, Exminster, and Exebridge, where it is joined by the River Barle.
Nether Winchendon ( also known as Lower Winchendon ) is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England.
There is also a dominant Edwardian style toward Woodside Park and Nether Street but with some modern houses, probably built between 1930s and 1960s, towards Friern Barnet.
Wallingford is an unincorporated community in Nether Providence Township, Delaware County in Pennsylvania, USA.
Baron Harding of Petherton, of Nether Compton in the County of Dorset, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Rove Bucky is far from understandable and could be a scribe's error and should perhaps read Over Bucky as occurs in older title deeds, in contra distinction to Nether Buckie.
James Robertson ’ s Topographical and military map of the counties of Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine, London, 1822 seems geographically inaccurate in its relative positioning of Buckie, Nether Buckie and Freuchny but is significant in that the new label of Rotten Slough is given equal importance in terms of size of community with Buckie ; however in Thomson ’ s Atlas of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1832 Rotten Slough is fairly unimportant by size so one of these two reference publications is distorted, probably the former.
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