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5 unusual facts about Camerton


2009 Workington floods

The cemetery at Camerton, historically the burial ground for the community of Seaton, was badly damaged with many gravestones being damaged or upturned.

A road bridge over a disused railway line in the village of Camerton collapsed due to floodwaters on the railway line.

Camerton, Cumbria

St Peter's church is located south-east of the village on a meander of the River Derwent.

Camerton, Somerset

The village stands beside the route of the Fosse Way, and the Roman settlement was south-west of the current village.

Mid-Suffolk Light Railway

The Middy was short-listed as the location for the 1952 Ealing Studios film The Titfield Thunderbolt, but the Camerton and Limpley Stoke line south of Bath was used instead.


Limpley Stoke

It was the junction station for the former branch line to Camerton, Somerset, on which The Titfield Thunderbolt was filmed.

Midford

For about four years from 1911 to 1915, Midford had a second railway station: Midford Halt railway station on the Limpley Stoke to Camerton railway that followed the former Somerset Coal Canal.

Radstock Museum

Religious life in the area is represented with exhibits related to John Wesley who founded Methodism and John Skinner who, as well as being rector of Camerton was also an archaeologist and antiquarian.

Wellow Hundred

The Hundred of Wellow consisted of the ancient parishes of: Camerton, Charterhouse Hinton, Combe Hay, Corston, Dunkerton, Englishcombe, Farleigh Hungerford, Foxcote, Newton St Loe, Norton St Philip, Tellisford, Twerton and Wellow.


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