Burnett Lives in a World of Its Very Own ; the Walk Nigel Vile Walks to Where the Cotswolds Meet the Mendips

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In its 22 years of existence running through to 1996, the county of Avon was a much-maligned creation.

The disparate range of towns and villages it brought together were never easy bedfellows - Bath and Bristol being the prime examples - while the uprooting of many a settlement from its centuries old county base - such as Bath being removed from Somerset - proved deeply unpopular. Edmund and Dorrien Mason catalogued this political creation in their book Avon Villages, an almost compulsory read for students of local geography and history.

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Burnett Lives in a World of Its Very Own ; the Walk Nigel Vile Walks to Where the Cotswolds Meet the Mendips

In this book, the village of Burnett is placed in the region described as 'south and south-west of Bath'. The Masons describe this ...

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