Shirwell, Village c.1965
Photo ref: S357024
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There was once a Shirwell Hundred - that ancient administrative division of English counties that was supposed to contain a hundred families or freemen. On the outlying slopes of Exmoor, the village today is charming and, superficially at least, little changed from this photograph.

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