SOMERSET AND DORSET RAILWAY: ‘Slow and Dirty – Swift and Delightful’ Highbridge came into being in the form we recognise today following a suggestion put forward at a meeting at […]

THE CHURCH SCHOOL Today it is accepted that everyone goes to school, this was not always the case. The Church provided forms of teaching to children and their parents; one […]

CELEBRATIONS The townspeople of Highbridge has always been ready to celebrate special occasions and the reports that we have unearthed, together with a few photographs, show that everyone has been […]

BAPTIST CHURCH “Organised” religion as such came to Highbridge a little late. Until the early 1800’s meetings were held in the homes of the people who felt religion had a […]

Highbridge is a market town astride the A38, 7 miles north of Bridgwater and 2 miles from the Bristol Channel coast.  It is a town that has experienced many changes […]