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Marquee Hire Somerset
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Covering Taunton, Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Yeovil, Bridgwater, Wells, Glastonbury, Burnham-on-Sea, Chard, Cheddar, Frome, Highbridge, Minehead, South Petherton, Street, Templecombe, Wedmore, Winscombe and all areas of Somerset
Somerset is a county in southern England, The county town is Taunton but Somerset’s most famous settlement is probably Bath – which is in the north of the county. One of Somerset’s most famous exports is cider, which often has fairly strong alcohol content. Another well known export is Cheddar cheese.
Cheddar cheese, the most popular type of cheese in the UK, was given its name by the village of Cheddar in Somerset.
Somerset has 40 miles of coastline in the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary and has two cities. As well as Bath, Wells also has city status.
Bath has a population of around 80,000 and is situated 99 miles from London. Bath is a world heritage site and has just under 4 million day visitors each year.
Weston-super-Mare is a seaside resort on the Somerset coast that is about 18 miles south of Bristol. The town is home of Somerset’s most well known helicopter museum, which is simply called “The Helicopter Museum”. The museum was official opened in 1989 by Prince Andrew.
Somerset’s county town, Taunton is home to Somerset County Cricket Club’s ground which is overlooked by the St James Church. Taunton is also the venue for a weekly market that has been going for many, many years. Marquee Hire Somerset may be implemented at a market in the county.
Somerset is also home to 71% of Exmoor national park which used to be a Royal Forest. The national park is also home to the largest cliff on mainland Great Britain – The Great Hangman.
Clevedon in north Somerset has a population of 22,000 and sits amongst a group of hills next to the river Severn estuary.
Yeovil, in south Somerset, was at the centre of the glove making industry in the mid-1800’s. In 2006, Yeovil became the first town in the UK to introduce a biometric fingerprints scanning system into its nightclubs. In the system, anyone who wants to go into a Yeovil nightclub has to fill in their details for a central database, and then each time they enter a nightclub, they have to “sign in” using their fingerprint.
Bridgwater is a market town in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset and lends its name to the Bridgwater and Taunton canal.
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