Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, the library, roads, public transport, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning, although fire, police and ambulance services are provided jointly with other authorities through the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, Avon and Somerset Constabulary and the South Western Ambulance Service.

It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument ( Somerset County No 21 ) and Grade II * listed building.

Cheddar Football Club, founded in 1892 and nicknamed " The Cheesemen ", play in the Somerset County Football League Premier Division.

* A group of villages in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States, was named in Jenner's honor by early 19th century English settlers, including Jenners, Jenner Township, Jenner Crossroads, and Jennerstown, Pennsylvania

He left Bucklers Mead Comprehensive School at the age of 15 without completing his GCSEs, intent on playing cricket for the Somerset County Cricket Club, although he also had an offer to play football for Crystal Palace F. C.

* 2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.

It starts in Somerset Township in Hillsdale County and Liberty Township in Jackson County.

They played their first-ever County Championship match there in 1921, competing there every season ( except while first-class cricket was suspended during the Second World War ), their last match being against Somerset County Cricket Club in August 1966.

* Skylands Region, encompassing Sussex County, Morris County, Warren County, Hunterdon County, and Somerset County.

During the attempt, however, the plane crashed into a reclaimed strip mine in Stonycreek Township, near Shanksville in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, about southeast of Pittsburgh and northwest of Washington, D. C. A few witnessed the impact from the ground and news agencies began reporting the event within an hour.

Somerset County Coroner Wally Miller was involved in the investigation and identification of the remains.

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The Capitol is believed to have been the intended target of the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, before it crashed near Shanksville in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after passengers tried to take over control of the plane from hijackers.

* W. Somerset Maugham and Beaufort County, South Carolina – Beaufort County Library

* Waterloo ( Princess Anne, Maryland ), a 1750 historic home in Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland

By the time of the grant of armorial bearings by the College of Arms to Somerset County Council in 1911, a ( red ) dragon had become the accepted heraldic emblem of the former kingdom.

Mr. Simpkins is a resident of Somerset county, and he and the Governor, also a Somerset countian, have been friends since Mr. Simpkins was a child.

Cheddar Lawn Tennis Club, was formed in 1924, and play in the North Somerset League and also has social tennis and coaching.

He also fell out publicly with other players, including fellow England opener Geoff Boycott, Somerset captain Peter Roebuck, and Australian batsman Ian Chappell, with whom he had an altercation in an Adelaide Oval car park during the 2010 – 11 Ashes series.

Lord Protector Somerset was also losing favour.

Two sets of accents are spoken in the West Country, Cornish ( primarily in South Cornwall ) and West Country ( the counties of Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Bristol, Dorset ( Not so much in east Dorset ), Wiltshire ( again, less so in eastern Wiltshire ), and also in East Cornwall ).

It is especially associated with East Anglia, but also used in chalky areas stretching through Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey and Kent to Somerset.

This situation also became increasingly uncomfortable to many of the non-Junto Whigs, led by the Duke of Somerset and the Duke of Shrewsbury, who began to intrigue with Robert Harley's Tories.

The Inquisitio Eliensis is a record of the lands of Ely Abbey ; and the Exon Domesday ( so called from the preservation of the volume at Exeter ), which covers Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire ( however only one manor of Wiltshire is included and parts of Devon, Dorset and Somerset are also wanting ) also all contain the full details supplied by the original returns.

At the vital moment, the 200 spearmen Edward had earlier posted in the woods far out on the left attacked Somerset from his own right flank and rear, as Gloucester's battle also joined in the fighting.

Jones, a gifted architect steeped in the latest European taste, also designed the Queen's House at Greenwich for Anne, one of the first true Palladian buildings in England ; and the Dutch inventor Salomon de Caus laid out her gardens at Greenwich and Somerset House.

Clare Market and part of Aldwych where the London School of Economics and Political Science is based, as well as the West Wing of Somerset House, the location for the Courtauld Institute of Art and King's College London, St Bart's Hospital, the University of London Boat Club in Chiswick and the Egham campus of Royal Holloway with its historic Founder's Building are also examples of properties which form part of the University's estate.

** The Letter ( 1940 film ), directed by William Wyler starring Bette Davis, also adapted from the Somerset Maugham play

There are two doctors ' surgeries in Shepton Mallet, a National Health Service community hospital operated by Somerset Primary Care Trust, and also an independent sector treatment centre which carries out a range of surgical procedures.

There is also a police station, and the town falls within the Somerset East policing district.

Judging by his later actions, there may also have been a more hidden motive — the destruction of Somerset, who was soon released from the Tower.

Protesting his loyalty, he aimed to be recognised as Henry VI's heir apparent ( Henry was childless after seven years of marriage ), while also trying to destroy the Earl of Somerset, who Henry may have preferred to succeed him over York, as a Beaufort descendant.

The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.

Howard had earlier co-starred with Davis in the film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's book Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ) and later in the romantic comedy It's Love I'm After ( 1937 ) ( also co-starring Olivia de Havilland ).

Somerset may also refer to:

Margaret's first cousin, also named Margaret Beaufort ( 1443 – 1509 ) was the mother of Henry VII, the latter Margaret being the daughter of 1st Duke of Somerset.

He went to Milford Junior School in Yeovil, Somerset, where his " love affair " with sport began, and played for Somerset Under-15s.

He played for Durham, Somerset and Worcestershire, as well as a season ( 1987 – 88 ) in Australia playing for the Queensland Bulls.

Only one List A game was ever played at the ground, and this was only the second match of its type: Glamorgan's Gillette Cup fixture against Somerset on 22 May 1963.

In 1998, the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball played its inaugural season, with teams in Somerset, Newark, and Atlantic City ( NJ ), Nashua ( NH ), Newburgh ( NY ), and Bridgeport ( CT ).

Joel played for Barbados in the West Indies, for South Australia in the Sheffield Shield and alongside Viv Richards and Ian Botham for Somerset in the English County Championship.

She played opposite Rex Harrison in his final acting role in a Broadway revival of W. Somerset Maugham's play The Circle in 1990.

In 1933 he played the title role in W. Somerset Maugham's final play Sheppey at Wyndham's Theatre.

She appeared in W. Somerset Maugham's Home and Beauty in 1919, repeated Dora at His Majesty's Theatre in 1920 and elsewhere thereafter, and played numerous roles at the Playhouse Theatre.

On the 5th September 1848 the first train steamed through Trowbridge as the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway was established. The Kennet and Avon canal runs to the north of Trowbridge and played an instrumental part in the town's development as it enabled coal to be transported from the Somerset Coalfield and so marked the advent of steam powered manufacturing in the woollen cloth mills.

Montagu Toller played six times for Somerset County Cricket Club, all in 1897, while Alfred Bowerman played for Somerset once in 1900, and again in 1905.

Clyde Cyril Best MBE ( born 24 February 1951 in Somerset ) is a Bermudian former football player who most notably played as a striker for West Ham United, and was one of the first black players in British football.

In 1964, she played a vulgar waitress in a remake of W. Somerset Maugham's drama Of Human Bondage opposite Laurence Harvey ; and replaced the late Marilyn Monroe as a sultry barmaid in Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid with Dean Martin and Ray Walston.

The club's most famed players are Colin Herbert Dredge, who played county cricket 209 times for Somerset from 1976 – 1988 and Mark Harmon, who played for both Somerset and Kent.

They first played in the Bristol & District League and progressed through the Bristol Combination, Bristol Premier and Somerset Senior League and won the Somerset Senior Cup in 1951 – 52 and 1957 – 58.