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.

In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".

Born in Bath, Somerset, Widdecombe is the daughter of a Ministry of Defence civil servant James Murray Widdecombe and Rita N Plummer.

Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset.

It is partly owned by the National Trust who acquired it in 1910 and partly managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust.

He is an admirer of the work of W. Somerset Maugham, especially the Ashenden stories.

Originating in the English village of Cheddar in Somerset, it is now produced in several countries around the world.

The ideal quality of the original Somerset Cheddar was described by Joseph Harding in 1864 as " close and firm in texture, yet mellow in character or quality ; it is rich with a tendency to melt in the mouth, the flavour full and fine, approaching to that of a hazelnut ".

The name " Cheddar " is not protected by the European Union, though the name " West Country Farmhouse Cheddar " has an EU Protected Designation of Origin, and may only be produced in Somerset, Devon, Dorset, and Cornwall, using milk sourced from those counties.

But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.

The Sweet Track in the Somerset Levels is the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe and among the oldest roads in the world, dated by dendrochronology to the winter of 3807-3806 BCE ; it too is thought to have been a primarily religious structure.

Somerset, disliked by the Regency Council for his autocratic methods, was removed from power by John Dudley, who is known as Lord President Northumberland.

What they do have in common is that they use scenery based on the same location, including repeated uses of dells, rocks, ferns, and a waterfall found in the Somerset region.

The earliest longbow known from England, found at Ashcott Heath, Somerset, is dated to 2665 BC, but no longbows survive from the period when the longbow was dominant ( c. 1250 – 1450 AD ), probably because bows became weaker, broke and were replaced, rather than being handed down through generations.

It is actually a living tree ( from the Cornish glas "( ever ) green ", and tann, " sacred tree "), and from these words the name of Glastonbury, in Somerset, England is sometimes derived.

Some Newfoundland English differs from General Canadian English in vowel pronunciation ( e. g., in much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair are homophones ), in morphology and syntax ( e. g., in Newfoundland the word bes is sometimes used in place of the normally conjugated forms of to be to describe continual actions or states of being, as in that rock usually bes under water instead of that rock is usually under water, but normal conjugation of to be is used in all other cases ; bes is likely a carryover of British Somerset usage with Irish grammar ) or Cornish, and in preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers ( e. g., in Newfoundland that play was right boring and that play was some boring both mean " that play was very boring ").

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.

W. Somerset Maugham, who wrote over a hundred short stories, was one of the most popular authors of his time.

His earliest American ancestor was John Rockwell ( 1588 – 1662 ), from Somerset, England, who immigrated to America probably in 1635 aboard the ship Hopewell and became one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut.

The late historian Paul Murray Kendall, on the other hand, maintained that Margaret's allies Somerset and William de la Pole, then Earl of Suffolk, had no difficulty in persuading her that York, until then one of Henry VI's most trusted advisors, was responsible for her unpopularity and already too powerful to be trusted.

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.

Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, was a prominent Lancastrian and one of Margaret's trusted men.

Cecil accompanied Somerset on his Pinkie campaign of 1547 ( part of the " Rough Wooing "), being one of the two Judges of the Marshalsea.

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.

The track is one of a network of tracks that once crossed the Somerset Levels.

The Somerset Patriots were one of the founding members of the Atlantic League in 1998.

The town elects one councillor to Somerset County Council ; at the last election in 2008, a conservative was elected.

To meet this standard the cheese must be made in the traditional manner using local ingredients in one of the four designated counties of South West England: Somerset, Devon, Dorset, or Cornwall.

However, the king once again came under the control of a dominant figure, this time one harder to replace than Suffolk or Somerset: for the rest of his reign, it would be the queen, Margaret of Anjou, who would control the king.

Somerset County is one of the far southern counties of Pennsylvania, along its straight

Somerset County is one of America's oldest counties, and is named after the English county of Somerset.

Somerset County has been known as one of New Jersey's more conservative counties.

* Raritan Valley Community College is the two-year community college for both Hunterdon and Somerset County, one of a network of 19 county colleges state-wide.

Smith worked at one of the estate's older mines, the Mearns Pit at High Littleton, part of the Somerset coalfield and the Somerset Coal Canal.

Most of the prison was demolished in the mid-1990s and the site now contains two high-rise buildings, one of them the 25-story Somerset Grand Hanoi serviced apartment building.

For a number of years Wimbledon Park was leased to the Duke of Somerset, who briefly in the 1820s employed a young Joseph Paxton as one of his gardeners, but, in the 1840s, the Spencer family sold the park as building land.

In 1992 Somerset County was one of three counties in the state ( the others being Knox and Piscataquis ) where Ross Perot received over 38 % of the vote and won.