Category Archives: 1700’S

Another great storm (previous one in 1607) hit the North Somerset Coast and flooded large parts of the somerset moors.

Brean Down Farm

The Champion and Hawkings families are only recorded as living at the farm for a short amount of time towards the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries up to the tragic death of Jesse Hawkings on the farm in 1917, the farm is important in the memories of… Continue reading →