Portal:Somerset/Did you know/3

From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:
 * ... that the 13th-century Hanging Chapel (pictured) in Langport has been a town hall, grammar school, museum and armoury before becoming a masonic hall?
 * ... that Bridgwater Bay is the location of the last mudhorse fisherman in England?
 * ... that when Farleigh Hungerford Castle was fortified from an existing manor house between 1370 and 1380, it was done without the appropriate "licence to crenellate" from the king?
 * ... that Meare Pool was an important source of fish for Glastonbury Abbey before being drained between 1500 and 1750?
 * ... that the busiest route of the Weston-super-Mare Tramways ran from an Old Pier to a Sanatorium?