MEM15330 - Brendon Hill Yard (Monument)

Trading post built by the Watchet trading Company to provide coal and agicultural items as far southwest as Bampton. It contained railway sidings, a goods shed, a builders merchants yard, a row of wooden dwellings, a shop and two lime kilns.

Brendon Hill Village was first supplied by the Watchet Trading Company, which established a warehouse by the railway yard in 1857. Supplies including 'coal, steel, salt, lime, North Wales slate, bricks, draining pipes etc' were sold from a building fronting onto Bampton Road which also provided stabling for 20 horses. A general store was established before 1861. [1] A trading post was first proposed in 1841 by the company secretary, CE Rowcliffe, to serve the country as far to the southwest as Bampton as cheaply as possible. With the exception of the limekilns and fragments of the stores, the buildings do not survive. [2] The depot is mentioned in a publication on the industrial archaeology of Somerset. [5]