Portal:Somerset/Did you know/19

From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:
 * ... that Brent Knoll Camp (pictured) on the Somerset Levels was used for military purposes in the Iron Age and again in World War II?
 * ... that Burnham-on-Sea's lifeboat used to be pulled by horses along a railway line from its lifeboat station to the beach where it could be launched?
 * ... that the Old Priory Barn, which now houses the Somerset Cricket Museum, is the only surviving building of the Augustinian Taunton Priory?
 * ... that Burnett, a village in Somerset, had a civil parish of 608 acres until it was merged into the neighbouring village of Compton Dando?
 * ... that Stokeleigh Camp is one of three Iron Age fortifications overlooking the Avon Gorge near Bristol?