Portal:Somerset/Did you know/4

From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:

... that medieval Perpendicular Gothic Somerset Towers typically feature pinnacles, lacy tracery windows and bell openings, gargoyles, arches, buttresses, merlons, and external stair turrets?
... that Gants Mill is an historic watermill now generating hydroelectric power from the River Brue?
... that the village of Selworthy was rebuilt by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland in 1828 as a Model village for the aged and infirm of his Holnicote Estate?
... that Midford Castle was built in the shape of the ace of clubs (♣)?
... that Porlock Bay in England contains a submerged forest?