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In 1950, a group called the Timberscombe Village Hall Committee of Management was formed with the intent of establishing a village hall. An agreement was reached with the National Council of Social Services and by the 24th June 1950, 416 square yards…

For a village that has an Iron Age Hill Fort on it's outskirts (1), which existed at the time of the Norman Conquest, recorded then as having a population of "15 persons, 3 villeins and 2 bondsmen" (2) and a medieval church, founded by the 6th…

On the 15th of February 1765, a petition was sent to Parliament from the people of Minehead, declaring that their road, running from Watchet and Minehead to Bampton, and passing through Dulverton, Brushford Green and Exebridge, was "very narrow,…

A photograph, used as a postcard, one of the few depictions of the Timberscombe Reading Room. It is the low white building, with two windows and a doorway facing the camera. It was situated just past the end of the St. Petrock's churchyard path,…

A photograph of a group of the Timberscombe Bellringers and their driver, on what has been identified as a 1924 outing to Cheddar (1). They are in a charabanc, a large open-topped motorized vehicle equipped with rows of crosswise benches facing…