You’ll have a long wait for a train at Burtle if fancy a day trip to Highbridge or Glastonbury. The station at Edington Road (later Edington Burtle) closed in 1966 under the Beeching cuts which saw hundreds of miles of branch lines cut.

However there are still echoes of the lost line when the Railway Hotel was renamed after the last station master Tom Mogg who earned affection in the village.

Now the Tom Mogg is set to reopen. When, we are not sure but builders are busy sprucing up what once was the place to drink – and it’s not often a pub opens in such a remote location – so the best of luck to the hostelry. Beginning with the letter T the pub falls into the list of inns that the writer Jane Penfold is seeking information for in her quest to chart the pubs of the area.

She is after news of the Thatcher’s Arms in Moorland and The 37 Club at Puriton which is still open and very popular and has possibly the world’s largest pub car park. The social club for ROF37 once served the hundreds of workers for the munitions factory and could soon be the focal point of the new Enterprise Zone to be built there.

Jane is also after news of The Tom Mogg – mentioned previously – and The Red Lion in Cannington and the Red Tile in Cossington. There’s also the Three Crowns and the Tudor Hotel in St Mary Street in Bridgwater that needs some info along with the Travellers Rest in Merridge (covered in our Look Back section before now) and the Watergate in West Quay.

She is also on the trail of the White Willow in ‘Pethy’, the Three Swans in Bridgwater, the Three Tuns in Penel Orlieu, the Tile Makers arms in Albert Street, Trumps in Eastover, and finally the Tynre Arms at Enmore.

All photographs, details of landlords, notes on the dates the pubs were open and any funny (and unprintable) stories please send to the Mercury so we can forward them to Jane. If you’d like you memories to be included in a letter to the newspaper we’d be delighted to include them. Email harry.mottram@nqsw.co.uk