Portal:Somerset/Did you know/4

From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:
 * ... that medieval Perpendicular Gothic Somerset Towers typically feature pinnacles, lacy tracery windows and bell openings, gargoyles, arches, buttresses, merlons, and external stair turrets?
 * ... that Gants Mill is an historic watermill now generating hydroelectric power from the River Brue?
 * ... that the village of Selworthy was rebuilt by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland in 1828 as a Model village for the aged and infirm of his Holnicote Estate?
 * ... that Midford Castle was built in the shape of the ace of clubs (♣)?
 * ... that Porlock Bay in England contains a submerged forest?