Camerton

In the 19th century interest often focused on round barrows and John Skinner, the rector of Camerton, was especially active.

Archive 2007-08-01 2007

In the 19th century interest often focused on round barrows and John Skinner, the rector of Camerton, was especially active.

Archaeology of Somerset 2007

The Rector found refuge from Camerton neither in dissipation like some of his neighbours, nor in sport like others.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

No, the only refuge from Camerton lay in Camalodunum.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

His son said that the people of Camerton laughed at him; that he treated his children like servants; that he suspected evil where none was meant.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

Then, though the country gentlemen seemed set as firmly in their seats as ever, it happened that the manor house at Camerton, with all the rights and duties pertaining to it, was in the hands of the Jarretts, whose fortune was derived from the Jamaica trade.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

Perhaps the village of Camerton in the year 1822, with its coal-mines and the disturbance they brought, was no fair sample of

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

Camerton was undoubtedly the Camalodunum of Tacitus.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

Overseer and Purnell the magistrate, the brothels, the ale-houses, the Methodists, the dropsies and bad legs of Camerton.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

By the time the diary opens in 1822 he was fixed in his opinion that the mass of men are unjust and malicious, and that the people of Camerton are more corrupt even than the mass of men.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004