This text presents the history of the south-east corner of Somerset bordering Wiltshire and Dorset, comprising the outliers of Salisbury Plain on the east and part of a clay vale to the west and including a natural route westwards followed by the two principal London-Exeter roads and the railway.

This book is a detailed and fully-referenced academic history, based on original research, of Bruton, Milborne Port, Wincanton, and twenty-two nearby parishes.