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.

While she was attempting to raise further support for the Lancastrian cause in Scotland, her principal commander, Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, gained a major victory for her at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460 by defeating the combined armies of the Duke of York and the Earl of Salisbury.

Somerset cider brandy gained European protected geographical indication ( PGI ) status in 2011.

Villiers gained support from those opposed to the current favourite, Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, and under the King's patronage he prospered greatly.

During the 1970s, Route 92 gained momentum, running from Princeton ( at Interstate 95's proposed Somerset Freeway ) all the way to Route 33 at Hightstown.

Born in Taunton, Somerset, Robinson made his England debut against Australia on 12 June 1988, and gained eight caps, playing his last match on 18 November 1995 against South Africa.

He was born at Sharpham Park, Glastonbury, Somerset, son of Davidge Gould, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1732, aged 17 ; he gained his B. A.

The New Zealand riflemen soon gained a footing on Mount Royston, aided by accurate and rapid shooting from the Somerset Royal Horse Artillery Battery.

He was a builder with experience gained from working on The Old School Baltonsborough, Bedwyn Broil and Somerset House.

He was born in Bath, Somerset on 5 January 1948 and educated at the City of Bath Boys ' School ( 1958 – 65 ) and at Clare College, Cambridge ( 1965 – 71 ) where he gained a BA ( Hons ) Music degree in 1968 and an MA in 1972.

The term gained wide currency outside China after the publication of Somerset Maugham's 1922 short story " The Taipan " and James Clavell's 1966 novel Tai-Pan.

In July 2002, Somerset County again made worldwide news when nine coal miners were rescued from several hundred feet underground from the Quecreek mine after an intense multi-day struggle.

Now a division of Somerset Entertainment, owned by Fluid Music, Puretracks has U. S. and Canadian licensing agreements with all major labels and hundreds of independent labels worldwide — enabling them to offer well over three million top music tracks across every genre.

* Powers Hapgood, a Harvard-educated miner, labor leader and organizer for the United Mine Workers Union of America, helped lead the Somerset County Coal Strike of 1922-23, a bitter sixteen-month effort which draw significant national press and political attention.

The Admiralty, on December 1, wrote to Russell that Milne “ should give his particular attention to the measures that may be necessary for the protection of the valuable trade between America, the West Indies, and England .” However Somerset issued provisional orders to British naval units around the world to be prepared to attack American shipping wherever it might be found.

The Manchester Guardian, reporting on the Somerset match in 1901, noted that many umpires had apparently viewed Mold's action as fair earlier in the season, even after the instruction from the MCC to pay careful attention to him.

His performances on the cricket field drew the attention of the county club, and late during the 1886 season, Woods made his first appearance for Somerset County Cricket Club.

The South West Coast Path starts from the western side of Minehead, in Somerset, at a marker erected in 2001 and partly paid for by the South West Coast Path Association.

In 2001 the area was used by the Somerset and Dorset Locomotive Company as a depot for its fleet of hire locomotives, although this use has now ceased.

* Barry Owen Somerset Maxwell, 12th Baron Farnham ( 1931 – 2001 )

Writing in The Times in 2001, Lord Rees-Mogg, who has a house in Somerset, described himself as " a country person who spends most of his time in London ", and attempted to define the characteristics of a " country person ".

His son, Jacob Rees-Mogg, stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the 1997 and 2001 general elections ( in Central Fife and The Wrekin respectively ), but in 2010 was elected Conservative MP for the new constituency of North East Somerset.

Akhtar has played for three English county cricket clubs, including Somerset in 2001, Durham in 2003 and 2004 and Worcestershire in 2005.

It is within the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset and had a population of 5, 275 according to the 2001 Census.

In 2001 a local practice of landscape architects, New Leaf Studio were commissioned by Bath & North East Somerset Council to develop proposals for the land.

The Party's six candidates in the region included Chris Thomas-Everard, whose family became famous during the 2001 foot and mouth crisis for refusing to allow his cows to be culled, Diana Scott the joint master of the Devon and Somerset hunt and prominent pro-hunting campaigner and Ranulph Fiennes, the explorer.

Somerset versus Hitler ( Countryside Books, 2001 ) ISBN 1-85306-590-0

It is situated in the Unitary authority of North Somerset, and in 2001 had a population of 3, 400.

The total population of the Blackdown Hills AONB in 2001 was 13, 300 ; of which 10, 500 live in Devon and 2, 800 within Somerset.

* Warren, D. W. ( 2001 ) James Gillingham: surgical mechanist & manufacturer of artificial limbs Somerset Industrial Archaeology Society, Taunton, England, ISBN 0-9533539-5-8

Somerset have never won the County Championship, in which they have competed since 1891, the county's highest finish being second, which was achieved in 2001, 2010 and 2012.

He was elected in 2001, and reelected in 2003, 2005 and 2007, to represent the new 21st District consisting of municipalities in Union, Morris, Essex and Somerset Counties.

Its official launch at Somerset House in London was abandoned on the day — it was September 11, 2001 when terrible things unfolded in the United States.

It is within the District of North Somerset and in 2001 the population was 4, 719.

He is most well known for bowling a 14 ball over in the 2001 C & G Trophy final against Somerset at Lord's, whilst playing for Leicestershire.

He moved to Somerset in 2001, and made his Test debut two years later.