Portal:Somerset/Did you know/11

From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:
 * ... that while playing for Lansdown Cricket Club in 1865, W. G. Grace (pictured) and two of his brothers took all of the opposition United England Eleven's twenty wickets?
 * ... that the remains of Melanie Hall who went missing in 1996 were discovered by the M5 motorway in October 2009?
 * ... that following the purchase of British Energy by Électricité de France, plans for a new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station have been announced?
 * ... that the Castle Cary Cut-Off reduced the 325½ mile distance between London Paddington and Penzance railway stations by 20¼ miles?
 * ... that Lilstock church only holds one service a year, and the last marriage held there was in 1834?