West country property sales - information about locations in the south west, including cornwall, devon, somerset and dorset
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Helston, Cornwall
£335,000
This fantastic property is a 3 bedroomed detached house, with one en-suite. All bedrooms are doubles.
There is a utility room which leads into the kitchen.
The garden has room for 2 cars to be parked and is small and can be easily maintained.
To the rear of the property there is a wood store which also consists of a two storey wooded shed.
The property was recently built by the owners and is only 18 months old.
There is a lovely local pub down the road, opposite a handy shop with post office.
A beautiful country setting, next to Helford Creek.
Information about Somerton
Somerton is a town in the English county of Somerset, on the River Cary, near Yeovil and Street, 5 miles northeast of Langport in the South Somerset district. It has a wide market square surrounded by old stone houses and an octagonal, roofed Market Cross as a focal point at the centre. Somerton was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Sumertone, meaning 'The sea-lake enclosure' from the Old English sae, mere and tun. An alternative suggested origin is from the Anglo-Saxon Sumer-tūn, meaning summer farmstead. It was reputedly the capital of the Kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 901 AD, although this is not supported by modern research. Glove making was a major industry in the town which also produced ropes and twine. There was also a brewery in the town.
The village's most noted feature is its roofed market cross (the Butter Cross) in the Square which was rebuilt in 1673. It belonged to the Earl of Ilchester until they found they could not afford to repair it during World War I, when it was given to the town. The Square has many buildings of interest, including the so-called ‘Town Hall’ or ‘Market Hall’, next to the Butter Cross, although the building has never fulfilled the function. Also on the square are the church and the Lady Smith Memorial Hall, also known as the ‘Parish Rooms’, which was built in 1902, and 17th century Market House, which is now a restaurant, The Red Lion was opened by the Earl of Ilchester in 1768 as a model coaching inn. It closed in 1995 and, after a period of neglect, it has been redeveloped as town houses.
Somerton court is another famous landmark and has 12th century origins. It has had various owners including Edward IV's brother, the Duke of Clarence. Later Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, sold the estate in 1530 and was in 1597 by James Fisher. His son rebuilt it, and it remianed in the family until 1808 when it was sold, renamed ‘Somerton Court’, and updated with Gothic battlements and turrets in place of the former gabled dormers. It was enlarged in the 19th century by the Hall-Stephenson family and was sold in 1927 and 1970. The house is set in 55 acres of parkland and gardens.
Somerton has almost doubled in size during the last 25 years but it has not lost its community spirit and still retains a village atmosphere. Somerton has two schools - the County Infants' school on Etsome Terrace and the Monteclefe CEVA Junior school on Kirkham street.
Photographs of Somerton
