Somerville, two miles (3 km) west of the remote southwest corner of Marine Corps Base Quantico, can be said to lie at the center of a 225-square-mile (580 km2) diamond-shaped area of mostly countryside bordered by routes US 15, 17, I-95, and SR 234.
[1] (These meet at Manassas to the north, Dumfries to the east, Fredericksburg to the south, and Warrenton to the west.)
No other occupied dwellings are in sight, and it is over six miles (10 km) to the nearest main road, US 17 at Morrisville.
Wikipedia says elsewhere that "Sir Gualtier de Somerville was one of William the Conqueror's knights... in 1066.
"[4] Almost eight centuries of this noble family's history were documented in a book edited by Sir Walter Scott in 1815.