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Simonsbath
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thumb|200px|The River Barle at Simonsbath thumb|200px|The River Barle upstream of Simonsbath Simonsbath () is a small village high on Exmoor in the English county of Somerset. It is the principal settlement in the Exmoor civil parish, which is the largest and most sparsely populated civil parish on Exmoor, covering nearly but with a population, at the time of the 2001 census, of 203 in 78 households, reducing to 156 at the 2011 census. The River Exe rises from a valley to the north, and the River Barle runs through the village and is crossed by a triple-arched medieval bridge that was extens
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- Locality
- Simonsbath
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Simonsbath House
- Sale by the King
- Purchase by John Knight
- 19th-century expansion
- Purchase by Fortescues
- Sold by Fortescues
- Sold by Ewart
- Simonsbath sawmill
- Governance
- Geography
- Demography
- The Exmoor Forest Inn
- Notable people
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|200px|The River Barle at Simonsbath thumb|200px|The River Barle upstream of Simonsbath Simonsbath () is a small village high on Exmoor in the English county of Somerset. It is the principal settlement in the Exmoor civil parish, which is the largest and most sparsely populated civil parish on Exmoor, covering nearly but with a population, at the time of the 2001 census, of 203 in 78 households, reducing to 156 at the 2011 census. The River Exe rises from a valley to the north, and the River Barle runs through the village and is crossed by a triple-arched medieval bridge that was extensively repaired after floods in 1952.
The settlement lies on the route of the Two Moors Way and close to the Macmillan Way West.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simonsbath” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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