Dunster, Somerset - Luttrell Arms Mantelpiece - Friths postcard c.1920s

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• Picture / Image:  Dunster, Somerset - Luttrell Arms Matlepiece
• Publisher:  Friths No. 20900
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The Luttrell Arms in Dunster, Somerset, England was built in the late 15th century and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.^[1]

The building was formerly a guest house for the Abbots of Cleeve Abbey.

Dunster is a village and civil parish in west Somerset, England, situated on the Bristol Channel coast 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south-southeast of Minehead and 20 miles (32.2 km) northwest of Taunton. The village has a population of 862 (2001).^[1]

The village has numerous restaurants and three pubs. West Street is the oldest street; though a quieter street than the high street it has three specialist shops: a Christmas shop, a kitchenware shop, and a gift shop. At the end of West Street is Dunster Working Watermill.

Dunster was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Torre, meaning 'The rocky hill' from the British word tor. The prefix 'Duns' may well be a reference to the Saxon Dunn, who held land in nearby Elworthy and Willet before 1066.^[2]

Dunster Beach, which includes the mouth of the River Avill, is located half a mile from the village, and used to have a significant harbour, known as Dunster Haven, which was used for the export of wool from Saxon times;^[3] however, it was last used in the 17th century and has now disappeared among the dykes, meadows and marshes near the shore.^[4] The beach site has a number of privately owned beach huts (or chalets as some owners call them) along with a small shop, a tennis court and a putting green. The chalets, measuring 18 by 14 feet (5.5 by 4.3 m), can be let out for holidays; some owners live in them all the year round.^[5]

Just southwest of Dunster are Bat's Castle and Black Ball Camp on Gallox Hill (also known as British Camp). They were Iron Age hill forts.^[6][7] There was a similar earthwork on Grabbist Hill^[8] and another at Croydon Hill.

Dunster is mentioned not only as a manor belonging to William de Moyon in the Domesday Book in 1086 but also the site of his castle.^[9]

The 15th-century Gallox Bridge was one of the main routes over the River Avill on the southern outskirts.^[10]

Dunster was part of the hundred of Carhampton.^[11]

During the English Civil War, Dunster was initially held as a garrison for the Royalists.^[12] It fell to the Parliamentarians in 1645 and orders were sent out for the castle to be demolished.^[12] However, these were not carried out, and the castle remained the garrison for Parliamentarian troops until 1650.

Dunster is regularly home to Taunton Garrison who re-enact plays, battles, and life in the civil war.

Dunster was the birthplace of the song All Things Bright and Beautiful when Cecil Alexander was staying with Mary Martin. The nearby hill, Grabbist, was originally heather-covered before tree plantation and was described as the ""Purple headed mountain"".^[13] Mary Martin was daughter of one of the owners of Martins Bank.

During the Second World War, considerable defences were built along the coast as a part of British anti-invasion preparations, though the north coast of Somerset was an unlikely invasion site.^[14] Some of the structures remain to this day. Most notable are the pillboxes on the foreshore of Dunster Beach.^[15] These are strong buildings made from pebbles taken from the beach and bonded together with concrete. From these, soldiers could have held their ground if the Germans ever invaded.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=somerset

number of items=single

period=inter-war (1918 - 1939)

postage condition=unposted