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The College, TAUNTON, TA4 1PN

On the side of the Globe Inn, Fore Street, Milverton.

The Globe Inn is a late 1800s watering hole that has recently lost its resident hosts. Plans are now in hand to raise money to buy it as a community asset.

An old enamel A. A. roadsign adorns the Globe Inn, but is now starting to look its age. Note also the old-fashioned telephone line fixtures.

Milverton's central pub has had a change: the previous landlord and landlady withdrew after 17 years' service and offered it for community use in 2023. This has resulted in the formation of the Milverton Community Benefit Society - a recognised body that allows application to the Government's (originally-named) Leveling Up Fund. It has attempted to raise the £585,000 for the inn by selling shares at £100 each. So far the effort has raised some £168,000 and has indicated that there will be up to £300,000 available from grants - hence the sign on the corner. See also Image] for the enamel AA sign. The inn was built in the late eighteenth-early nineteenth century and is a Grade II listed building.

A modern exchange just off the centre of the village.

The Globe stands by the turning to Houndsmoor, on the right

Dissenting parishioners were holding meetings in the 1840s and asked for a chapel to be built. A parcel of land with a stable and workshops, part of the Irongates Estate, was cleared and by 1850 a new place of worship erected for the sum of £222. Although relations between the two main church factions were frosty, the two now hold joint services. The chapel was refurbished in 1999 and many pews were removed for a carpetted space; it now holds popular tea and cake sessions.

It's become quite common to see pillar boxes crowned with a knitted topper these days, but Milverton can lay claim to a car park entrance with one.

Access road to a housing estate