The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (informally known as the National Trust) owns or manages a range of properties in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England.
These range from sites of Iron and Bronze Age occupations including Brean Down, Cadbury Camp[1] and Cheddar Gorge to Elizabethan and Victorian era mansions, which include examples such as Montacute House and Tyntesfield.
[2] Some of the smaller properties include Coleridge Cottage and Stembridge Mill, the last remaining thatched windmill in England.
A scheduled monument is a "nationally important" archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.
Scheduled Monuments are specified in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, which defines a monument as: Any building, structure or work above or below the surface of the land, any cave or excavation; any site comprising the remains of any such building, structure or work or any cave or excavation; and any site comprising or comprising the remains of any vehicle, vessel or aircraft or other movable structure or part thereof ... Download coordinates as: Media related to National Trust properties in Somerset at Wikimedia Commons