Properties in Radstock

 

The next-closest town to Barons Property Centre and a great place to buy a house.

 

Radstock was the terminus for the southern branch of the Somerset Coal Canal, which was turned into a tramway. It then became a central point for railway development with large coal depots, warehouses, workshops and a gas works. As part of the development of the Wiltshire, Somerset and Weymouth Railway an 8 miles (13 km) line from Radstock to Frome was built to carry coal.

Since the coal mines closed in the early 1970s, the towns have become commuter towns with residents working in Bristol or Bath.

The Waldegrave family had been Lords of the Manor of Radstock since the English Civil War. William Waldegrave was made Baron Radstock in 1800. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baron in 1953.

Radstock is home to the Radstock Museum, housed in its former market hall. It is also home to an important ecological site Radstock Railway Sidings and an important geological site.