| 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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