Dunster
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Dunster is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, within the north-eastern boundary of Exmoor National Park. It lies on the Bristol Channel southeast of Minehead and northwest of Taunton. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 817.
Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Dunster.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Dunster Yarn Market in the foreground and Dunster Castle on the skyline.
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Dunster
- UK place.population
- 817
- UK place.unitary_england
- Somerset
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Somerset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Tiverton and Minehead
- UK place.post_town
- MINEHEAD
- UK place.postcode_area
- TA
- UK place.postcode_district
- TA24
- UK place.dial_code
- 01643
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SS990436
- UK place.website
- Dunster Village website
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Encyclopedic overview
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Dunster is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, within the north-eastern boundary of Exmoor National Park. It lies on the Bristol Channel southeast of Minehead and northwest of Taunton. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 817.
There are Iron Age hillforts in the area. Saxon Dunster was a parish in the Hundred of Carhampton. In the Domesday book there are four manors within the parish: Aucome (Alcombe), Avena (Avill), Stantune (Stanton) and Torre. Torre is now the site of the village of Dunster. Torre, including the castle and two watermills, was valued at 15 shillings and Aucome 20 shillings. The village grew up around Dunster Castle which was built at Torre by the Norman warrior William I de Moyon (d. post 1090) shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066. The castle is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. From that time it was the caput of the Feudal barony of Dunster. The castle was remodelled on several occasions by the Luttrell family who were lords of the manor from the 14th to 20th centuries. The benedictine Dunster Priory was established in about 1100. The Priory Church of St George, dovecote and tithe barn are all relics from the Priory.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dunster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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