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Dist:0.2km<br/>This bridge was a structure of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway before it closed in the 1970's.
It carries a footpath and (very rough) cycleway to Twinhoe.

©Maurice Pullin

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©Rog Frost

Dist:0.2km<br/>A view looking to the southeast along Ford Road towards the viaduct at Wellow. This structure once carried the track of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR). There has been some clearance of the surrounding trees since the first Geograph by Rog Frost.

©Phil Williams

Dist:0.3km<br/>This track follows the line of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway, opened 1870, closed 100 years later.
The path is on private land, please obtain permission from the nearby Trekking Centre if you wish to enter.
http://www.wellowtrekking.com/trekking.html

©Maurice Pullin

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©Dave Lowther

Dist:0.3km<br/>Wellow is only one of seven churches in England dedicated to the patron of all wayfarers. He is better supported in Europe and the Middle East, with stained glass at both Chartres and Rouen Cathedrals, but is mentioned in the Prologue of Chaucer�s Canterbury Tales.

There are two versions of his story, agreeing in general apart from the reason for his acts of charity � only being penitence for murder, the other (with his equally devoted wife) the result of a vision on his marriage night.

Dedicated in the 9th century, the story was first quoted by St Antonine in circa 387AD. However, many later writings claim the former to be �entirely mythical�, since he has no fixed date, no country of origin, nor tomb or record of burial, while the latter is usually a joint dedication with that of his wife, Bassilissa.

It seems that in England, the former is taken as correct, since no mention is made of Bassilissa, and at Wellow he is depicted in both stained glass and stone. His legend is roughly as follows:

Julian was said to have been a nobleman, young and wealthy, possibly Egyptian by birth, living towards the end of the Roman Empire. Whilst hunting one day, the stag he was stalking warned him that if he killed the stag, he would also kill his parents. He duly killed the stag and later, due to a case of mistaken identity, killed both his parents. Having travelled to Rome with his wife for absolution, he undertook to devote his life to the suffering and poor. They turned his parent house into a hospital, to care for pilgrims as they passed, with Julian also acting as ferryman to those crossing the river on whose banks the house stood. Here they continued until his wife�s death.

During the reign of Diocletian, Julian was denounced as a Christian, and after a brief term of imprisonment somewhere in Egypt, was cruelly put to death.

Here at Wellow, a statue in the niche of the porch shows St Julian holding an oar and blessing those who enter. Also, he is depicted in the east window, holding an oar in one hand and the church in the other. Other references are the hunting scenes and the running stag seen in the tie beam roof to the Nave.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.3km<br/>The oak door dates from circa 1372 and is typical of the day.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.3km<br/>The Parish Church of St Julian the Hospitaller. Founded prior to the 12th century. It is suggested but without evidence that the present church was built circa 1372 by Sir Thomas Hungerford.

©Trish Steel

Dist:0.4km<br/>"A proud, little altered ... masculine rather than refined" church (Pevsner: "North Somerset & Bristol", 1958, in lyrical mode). The west tower is a "strong, robust piece ... set-back buttresses continued above into diagonally set pinnacles which appear as an unusual motif above the battlements - joining hands round the corner, as it were". Seen from the village High Street.

©Derek Harper

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©Tudor Williams

Dist:0.4km<br/>Despite the house opposite called Windmill Cottage, this is a dovecote.
http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=32343&mode=quick

©Rick Crowley

Dist:0.5km<br/>A plaque reads "Wellow National Schools 1852". This is now St Julians CE Primary School and there are newer buildings at the rear.

©Derek Harper

Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking north-north-west on the lane from Baggeridge Hill, at the foot of Wellow Village. The ford provides a crossing of the Wellow Brook by the old packhorse bridge

©Martin Bodman

Dist:0.6km<br/>The house stands near the Wellow Brook which is immediately in front of the camera (hope they don't get trouble with flooding).
Up the hill beyond the house a line across the field shows the track of the Somerset Coal Canal, Southern Arm, which was built as a tramway between 1805 and 1815 to serve collieries around Radstock.
Above that a field hedge conceals the trackbed of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway which replaced it in 1870 and closed in 1970.

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.6km<br/>The Fox and Badger lies partly in ST7358 and partly in ST7458, only the front wall is in ST7358 http://www.pubutopia.com/pubs/B/Bath/Wellow/Fox & Badger/index.html

©Maurice Pullin

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