| Frome
is a town of enormous charm, with its steep, winding streets,
its wealth of beautiful old buildings and its friendly,
relaxed atmosphere. It has more listed buildings than
any other town in Somerset (357 at the last count), many
of them reminders of a rich Wessex industrial history
of cloth, agriculture and country market trading. It remains
the biggest of the five Mendip towns and is renown for
its thriving Arts & Crafts community.
Older than Bath
(13 miles north), its history dates from AD685, when
St Aldhelm founded a mission on the River Frome. The
Frome continues to meander through, passing the unique,
Grade 1 Listed Blue House. Frome has largely escaped
insensitive redevelopment, bequeathing it a legacy of
18th century cloth merchants' homes and Trinity, one
of the country's best examples of industrial housing
from the 1600s. It is an ideal touring base for the
many attractions of the area, including stunning Stourhead
and Longleat.
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