Saturday, April 06, 2024

Kilmersdon

Near here. From Somerset Villages in Colour. Kilmersdon is part of the Ammerdown estate. It lays claim to being the home of the story of Jack and Jill nursery rhyme - check out the wiki ''There is also a belief in Somerset that the rhyme records events in the village of Kilmersdon when a local girl became pregnant; the putative father is said to have died from a rockfall and the woman afterwards died in childbirth. The local surname of Gilson is therefore taken to derive from Gill's son.[33]''