NOT KNOWN FACTS ABOUT ALFRED'S MOATED STRONG HOLD NEAR TO THE SOMERSET VILLAGE OF ILTON

In north Somerset, mining during the Somerset coalfield was an essential market, and in an effort to decrease the cost of transporting the coal the Somerset Coal Canal was constructed; Section of it had been later converted right into a railway.Limestone and sandstone are quarried during the upland areas of the county, and elsewhere sand and gravel