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Doniford

hamlet in Williton, Somerset, England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ141188516 ↗
Source-derived summary

Doniford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Williton, in Somerset, England. It is located along the Helwell Bay between Watchet and Williton.

Doniford House has late medieval origins and was enlarged circa 1600.

Transport

The village is served by Doniford Halt on the heritage West Somerset Railway. Bus services stop at Doniford Farm Park.

Beach

Doniford Beach is a fossil beach known for rock pools and the collapsing cliffs between Doniford and St Audries. Beside the beach is an early 19th-century lime kiln which is thought to have been in operation until the 1930s.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Doniford” as hamlet in Williton, Somerset, England. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Doniford, hamlet and Williton.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1600—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Doniford, hamlet and Williton providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Doniford”, the useful work is to connect “hamlet in Williton, Somerset, England” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q141188516. Authority coordinates are 51.178, -3.305. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1600.

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This entry incorporates text from “Doniford” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.