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 south-west as Bampton as cheaply as possible. With the exception of the limekilns and fragments of the stores, the buildings do not survive. [2]