69-491: Samuel Hood may refer to: Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724–1816), British admiral Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet (1762–1814), British admiral Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport (1788–1868) Samuel Hood (priest) (1782–1872), Anglican priest Samuel Hood, 6th Viscount Hood (1910–1981), Foreign Office official and diplomat Sam Hood (1872–1953), Australian photographer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
138-616: A major incident , as defined under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 . At this time, with 17,000 acres (6,900 ha) of agricultural land having been under water for over a month, the village of Thorney was abandoned and Muchelney was cut off by flood waters for almost a month. Northmoor Green , which is more commonly known as Moorland, was also severely affected. By the end of January, 17,000 acres (6,900 ha) of agricultural land, including North Moor , Curry and Hay Moors and Greylake , had been under water for over
207-694: A French ship ashore in Audierne Bay , and captured two privateers . His zeal attracted the favourable notice of the Admiralty and he was appointed to a ship of his own, Bideford . In 1759, when captain of the Vestal (32 guns), he captured the French Bellone (32 guns) after a sharp action. During the war, his services were wholly in the Channel, and he was engaged under Rodney in 1759 in
276-631: A friend of Nelson's uncle Maurice Suckling . In 1782 Hood introduced Nelson to the Duke of Clarence, the future King William IV , who was then a serving naval officer in New York. Hood was made an Irish peer as Baron Hood of Catherington in September 1782. During the peace, he entered the British Parliament as Member for Westminster in the election of 1784 where he was a supporter of
345-407: A habitat for several species of invertebrates. These include moths such as the argent and sable moth ( Rheumaptera hastata ) and narrow bordered bee hawk-moth ( Hemaris tityus ). While butterfly species include the small heath ( Coenonympha pamphilus ), pearl-bordered fritillary ( Boloria euphrosyne ) and small pearl-bordered fritillary ( Boloria selene ). Beetles found in the valley include
414-474: A link between the former Bruton Abbey , and its courthouse in the High Street. The bridge was restored after floods in 1982. The River Brue has a long history of flooding. Its lower reaches are close to sea level, and the river above Bruton drains an area of 31 square kilometres (12 sq mi) into a steep and narrow valley. In 1984 a protective dam was built 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) upstream from
483-457: A month. Bridgwater was partly flooded on 10 February 2014, when with 20,000 sandbags ready to be deployed. Over 600 houses were flooded, and both flooding and groundwater disrupted services including trains on the Bristol to Exeter line between Bridgwater and Taunton. Further preventative work under the title of the "Brue Catchment River Maintenance Pilot Project" has led to controversy about
552-527: A railway was built along the towpath. During the Second World War the Brue was incorporated into GHQ Line and many pillboxes were constructed along the river. Gants Mill at Pitcombe , near Bruton, is a watermill which is still used to mill cattle feed. A 12 kilowatts (16 hp) hydroelectric turbine was recently installed at the site. There has been a mill here since the 13th century, but
621-499: A significant contribution to reducing the adverse effects of flooding. These include the conversion of arable land, adoption of the Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) approach to controlling rainwater runoff from developed areas, dredging, raising riverbanks and improving pumping facilities. Further studies of the possible beneficial effects of woodland in reducing flooding have also been undertaken. During
690-763: Is also named after him. Two of the three ships of the Royal Navy named HMS Hood were named after him as well. One of these, the battlecruiser HMS Hood (51) , was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in 1941 during the Second World War . Hood was portrayed by David Torrence in the 1935 film Mutiny on the Bounty . Several other members of the Hood family were notable figures in British history: River Brue The River Brue originates in
759-739: Is an ecological conservation project based on the Somerset Levels and Moors and managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust . The valley includes several Sites of Special Scientific Interest including Westhay Moor , Shapwick Heath and Shapwick Moor . Much of the area has been at the centre of peat extraction on the Somerset Levels . The Brue Valley Living Landscape project commenced in January 2009 to restore and reconnect habitat that will support wildlife. The aim
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#1732771755026828-653: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (12 December 1724 – 27 January 1816) was an English admiral in the Royal Navy . As a junior officer he saw action during the War of the Austrian Succession . While in temporary command of Antelope , he drove a French ship ashore in Audierne Bay , and captured two privateers in 1757 during
897-672: Is one of an increasing number of landscape scale conservation projects in the UK. The project covers an area of approximately 12,500 hectares (31,000 acres) encompassing the floodplain of the River Brue from a little east of Glastonbury to beyond the Catcott, Edington and Chilton Moors SSSI in the west. Almost a quarter of the project area is designated as Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Special Protection Area (SPA) and Ramsar site . The project area accounts for almost half of
966-526: Is suggested that it was here that Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur into the waters after King Arthur fell at the Battle of Camlann . John Leland noted in the 16th century that the bridge had four arches, while W. Phelps in an 1839 illustration as having only two arches, one pointed, probably from the 14th or 15th century, and the other round. Excavations in 1912 found the remains of a second round arch regarded as 12th century work. The current concrete arch bridge
1035-481: Is the largest factor affecting water quality followed by the water industry. Transport, industry and manufacturing also have an effect. The Brue Valley Living Landscape is a UK conservation project managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust . The project commenced in January 2009 and aims to restore habitat . It aims to help wildlife sustain itself in the face of climate change while guaranteeing farmers and other landowners can continue to use their land profitably. It
1104-404: Is to be able to sustain itself in the face of climate change while guaranteeing farmers and other landowners can continue to use their land profitably. It is one of an increasing number of landscape scale conservation projects in the UK. The River Brue originates in hills to the southwest of the catchment area, close to the border with Dorset . The same hills are the locale of the sources of
1173-567: The French Revolutionary Wars . His younger brother was Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1726–1814), and his first cousin once-removed was Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet (1762–1814). The eldest son of Samuel Hood, vicar of Butleigh in Somerset and prebendary of Wells , and Mary Hoskins, daughter of Richard Hoskins, Esquire , of Beaminster , Dorset. In 1740, Captain (later Admiral) Thomas Smith
1242-512: The National Portrait Gallery . He was also painted by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough . In 1749 he married Susannah Linzee (1726–1806) (whose monument survives at Davenport House, Greenwich (Former Hospital Cemetery)), a daughter of Edward Linzee, Master Ropemaker at Portsmouth Dockyard, and Mayor of Portsmouth. By his wife he had issue including: A biographical notice of Hood by McArthur, his secretary during
1311-624: The Pilrow cut flowing north through Mark to join the Axe near Edingworth , and the other directly west to the sea at Highbridge. During monastic times, there were several fish weirs along the lower reaches of the river. They used either nets or baskets, the fishing rights belonging to the Bishop of Bath and Wells and the Abbot of Glastonbury. Between 1774 and 1797 a series of enclosures took place in
1380-737: The Raid on Le Havre , destroying the vessels collected by the French to serve as transports in the proposed invasion of Britain . He was appointed in Commander-in-Chief, North American Station in July 1767. He returned to England in October 1770 and commissioned the building of Catherington House in the village of Catherington in Hampshire in 1771. In 1778, he accepted a command which in
1449-558: The River Axe just north of Bleadney. This route made it difficult for the officials of Glastonbury Abbey to transport produce from their outlying estates to the Abbey, and when the valley of the river Axe was in flood it backed up to flood Glastonbury itself. Sometime between 1230 and 1250 a new channel was constructed westwards into Meare Pool north of Meare , and further westwards to Mark Moor . It then divided into two channels, one
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#17327717550261518-581: The River Huntspill ) and many drainage rhynes). It is connect to the River Axe through several of these channels which are controlled by sluices . It is tidal below the sluices at New Clyce Bridge in Highbridge . Bow Bridge is a 15th-century Packhorse bridge over the River Brue in Plox, Bruton. It is a Grade I listed building , and scheduled monument . The bridge may have been built as
1587-645: The River Wylye and the Dorset Stour which flow south to the English Channel . It descends quickly in a narrow valley to a point just beyond Bruton where it is joined by the River Pitt . Here it takes a meandering route through a broad, flat-bottomed valley between Castle Cary and Alhampton . By the time it reaches Baltonsborough it is only some 10 metres (33 ft) above sea level and
1656-774: The Seven Years' War . He held senior command as Commander-in-Chief, North American Station and then as Commander-in-Chief, Leeward Islands Station , leading the British fleet to victory at Battle of the Mona Passage in April 1782 during the American Revolutionary War . He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth , then First Naval Lord and, after briefly returning to the Portsmouth command, became Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet during
1725-659: The Somerset Levels and Moors Special Protection Area . The area includes land already managed for conservation by organisations including Somerset Wildlife Trust , Natural England , the Hawk and Owl Trust and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . These include Shapwick Heath national nature reserve , Westhay Moor , Catcott Lows National Nature Reserve, Ham Wall and Shapwick Moor . There are 25 scheduled monuments and 746 Historic Environment Records in
1794-735: The Viridor Credits scheme. One of the project's goals is to protect, restore and create areas of reedbed , grazing marsh , fen , raised bog , lowland meadow , purple moor grass and rush pastures and wet woodland . Species of conservation concern ( UK Biodiversity Action Plan priority species) that are likely to benefit from this project include plants such as: divided sedge ( Carex divisa ), English sticky eyebright ( Euphrasia anglica ), greater water parsnip ( Sium latifolium ), lesser butterfly orchid ( Platanthera bifolia ), marsh stitchwort ( Stellaria palustris ) and tubular water dropwort ( Oenanthe fistulosa ). The flora provides
1863-545: The West Indies , had complained of a lack of proper support from his subordinates, whom he accused of disaffection. The Admiralty, anxious to secure the services of trustworthy flag officers, promoted Hood to rear-admiral on 26 September 1780, and sent him to the West Indies to act as second in command under Rodney, who knew him personally. He joined Rodney in January 1781 in his flagship Barfleur , and remained in
1932-401: The brown hare ( Lepus europaeus ), Eurasian harvest mouse ( Micromys minutus ), European otter ( Lutra lutra ) and water vole ( Arvicola terrestris ). Anglers will find pike in excess of 20 pounds (9.1 kg), with good stocks of chub , dace , roach , bream , tench , perch , rudd , and gudgeon . There are trout in the upper reaches. There are several access points along
2001-551: The peat bog including the Honeygore, Abbotts Way, Bells, Bakers, Westhay and Nidons trackways. The Levels contain the best-preserved prehistoric village in the UK, Glastonbury Lake Village , as well as two others at Meare Lake Village . Discovered in 1892 by Arthur Bulleid , it was inhabited by about 200 people living in 14 roundhouses , and was built on a morass on an artificial foundation of timber filled with brushwood, bracken , rubble and clay. The valley
2070-662: The winter flooding of 2013–14 on the Somerset Levels the River Brue overflowed at new year, during the rain and storms from Storm Dirk , with many residents asking for the Environment Agency to resume river dredging. On 24 January 2014, in light of the continued flooded extent of the Somerset Moors and forecast new rainfall as part of the winter storms of 2013–14 in the United Kingdom , both Somerset County Council and Sedgemoor District Council declared
2139-515: The Admiralty in London, moved swiftly to take command of the port. Hood occupied Toulon on the invitation of the French royalists , and in co-operation with the Spaniards and Sardinians . In December of the same year, the allies, who did not work harmoniously together, were driven out, mainly by the generalship of Napoleon . Hood ordered the French fleet burned to prevent it falling back into
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2208-645: The Brue Valley, engagement with local government, farmers, the conservation sector and other interest community members, to produce a shared local vision. It is hoped to create larger and better connected patches of important habitats, in a way which also benefits the local economy and rural society. The project has received funding from the European Regional Development Fund (via the WAVE project), Natural England's Wetland Vision and
2277-686: The Brue valley between the Poldens and Wedmore. In 1794 the annual floods filled the whole of the Brue valley. Work by the Commissioners of Sewers led to the Somerset Drainage Act 1801 ( 41 Geo. 3. (U.K.) c. lxxii) which enabled sections at Highbridge and Cripp's Bridge to be straightened, and new feeder channels such as the North and South Drains to be constructed. In 1803 the clyse at Highbridge, which had been built before 1485,
2346-771: The French Admiral, the Comte de Grasse , at the Battle of the Chesapeake . When he returned to the West Indies, he was for a time in independent command, as commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands Station , owing to Rodney's absence in England. De Grasse attacked the British islands of St Kitts and Nevis with a force much superior to Hood's squadron. Hood made an unsuccessful attempt in January 1782 to save them from capture, with 22 ships to 29, and
2415-753: The Mediterranean command, appeared in the Naval Chronicle , vol. ii. His correspondence during his command in America was published by the Navy Records Society . In 1792, Lieutenant William Broughton , sailing with the expedition of George Vancouver to the Northwest Coast of North America , named Mount Hood in present-day Oregon , and Hood's Canal in present-day Washington , after Hood. Port Hood, Nova Scotia ,
2484-655: The Moors is known to have taken place during Roman times, and has been carried out since the Levels were first drained. Peat extraction on the Somerset Moors continues today, although much reduced. The area is known to have been occupied since the Neolithic when people exploited the reedswamps for their natural resources and started to construct wooden trackways such as the Sweet and Post Tracks . The Sweet Track, named after
2553-689: The North American station, Hood was promoted post captain, and assigned command of the sloop Lively , which was then under construction in England; however as Hood remained in North America he was unable to assume command of Lively. Still in North America, Hood became flag captain to Commodore Holmes in the Grafton . At the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in 1756, the navy was rapidly expanded which benefited Hood. In 1757, while in temporary command of Antelope (50 guns), he drove
2622-607: The South Drain to Ashcott Corner. The Glastonbury Canal ran for just over 14 miles (23 km) through two locks from Glastonbury to Highbridge , where it entered the River Parrett and from there the Bristol Channel . The canal was authorised by Parliament in 1827 and opened in 1834. It was operated by The Glastonbury Navigation & Canal Company. Most of it was abandoned as a navigation in 1854, when
2691-414: The West Indies or on the coast of North America until the close of the American Revolutionary War . The expectation that he would work harmoniously with Rodney was not entirely justified. Their correspondence shows that they were not on friendly terms; but Hood always did his duty, and he was so able that no question of removing him from the station ever arose. The unfortunate turn for the British taken by
2760-414: The campaign of 1781 was largely due to Rodney's neglect of Hood's advice. When Rodney decided to return to Britain for the sake of his health in the autumn of 1781, Hood was ordered to take the bulk of the fleet to the North American coast during the hurricane months. Hood joined Admiral Thomas Graves in the unsuccessful effort to relieve the army at Yorktown , when the British fleet was driven off by
2829-575: The court-martial of some of surviving instigators of the mutiny on the Bounty , beginning on 12 September 1792. Among those on trial were crew members who were loyal to Bounty ' s commanding officer, William Bligh , but were forced to remain on the ship after Bligh was cast away in an open boat. Of the ten defendants, four were acquitted and the remaining six were found guilty of mutiny and sentenced to death. Three were recommended for mercy and were pardoned. The other men found guilty were hanged from
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2898-915: The current building was built in 1810. Following summer floods of 1997 and the prolonged flooding of 1999–2000 the Parrett Catchment Project was formed, partly funded by the European Union Regional Development Fund , by 30 organisations, including British Waterways , Campaign to Protect Rural England , Countryside Agency , Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs , Environment Agency, Kings Sedgemoor and Cary Vale Internal Drainage Board (now part of Parrett Internal Drainage Board), Levels and Moors Partnership, National Farmers Union , Sedgemoor, Somerset County Council , South Somerset District Council , Taunton Deane and Wessex Water. They aim to tackle twelve areas, which, when combined, will make
2967-400: The fleet and the co-operation of Paoli. While the occupation of Corsica was being effected, the French at Toulon had so far recovered that they were able to send a fleet to sea. Nelson was recorded as saying that Hood was "the best Officer, take him altogether, that England has to boast of". In October, he was recalled to England in consequence of some misunderstanding with the admiralty or
3036-464: The government of William Pitt the Younger . He became Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth in 1786, after being promoted to vice-admiral on 24 September 1787, retired from the Portsmouth Command in 1789. He was appointed to the Board of Admiralty under John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham , brother of the Prime Minister, in July 1788 and became First Naval Lord in August 1789. He became Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth again in June 1792. Hood presided at
3105-414: The hands of the revolutionary government in Paris. Hood then turned to the occupation of Corsica , which he had been invited to take in the name of the King of Britain by Pasquale Paoli , who had been leader of the Corsican Republic before it was subjugated by the French a quarter of a century previously. The island was for a short time added to the dominions of George III , chiefly by the exertions of
3174-1328: The lesser silver water beetle ( Hydrochara caraboides ) and one-grooved diving beetle ( Bidessus unistriatus ). There are also shining ram's-horn snails ( Segmentina nitida ) and shrill carder bees ( Bombus sylvarum ). The River Brue and its tributaries support a population of European eels ( Anguilla anguilla ). Reptiles found include the European adder ( Vipera berus ) and grass snake ( Natrix natrix ). Multiple bird species include Bewick's swan ( Cygnus columbianus bewickii ), Eurasian bittern ( Botaurus stellaris ), Eurasian bullfinch ( Pyrrhula pyrrhula ), * Eurasian wigeon ( Anas penelope ), European starling ( Sturnus vulgaris ), gadwall ( Anas strepera ), grasshopper warbler ( Locustella naevia ), hen harrier ( Circus cyaneus ), house sparrow ( Passer domesticus ), linnet ( Carduelis cannabina ), marsh harrier ( Circus aeruginosus ), marsh tit ( Poecile palustris ), merlin ( Falco columbarius ), northern lapwing ( Vanellus vanellus ), peregrine ( Falco peregrinus ), reed bunting ( Emberiza schoeniclus ), short-eared owl ( Asio flammeus ), skylark ( Alauda arvensis ), song thrush ( Turdus philomelos ), teal ( Anas cracca ), willow tit ( Poecile montanus ) and yellowhammer ( Emberiza citrinella ). Mammalian species of interest include
3243-443: The local River Brue as a boy. Samuel entered the Royal Navy in 1741. He served part of his time as midshipman with George Brydges Rodney in the Ludlow and became a lieutenant in 1746. He had opportunities to see service in the North Sea during the War of the Austrian Succession . In 1754, he was made commander of the sloop Jamaica and served in her at the North American station . In July 1756, while still on
3312-419: The ministry, which has never been explained. Richard Freeman, in his book, The Great Edwardian Naval Feud , explains his relief from command in a quote from Lord Esher's journal. According to this journal, "... [Hood] wrote 'a very temperate letter' to the Admiralty in which he complained that he did not have enough ships to defend the Mediterranean." As a result, Hood was then recalled from the Mediterranean. He
3381-490: The need for dredging and maintenance of the river. At Bruton Dam, the nearest measuring station to the source of the river, the normal level of the river is between 0.6 metres (2 ft 0 in) and 2.08 metres (6 ft 10 in) with the highest level ever recorded being 10.7 metres (35 ft) in 2007. Within the town of Bruton at Bruton Surgery the normal level is between 0.17 metres (6.7 in) and 0.69 metres (2 ft 3 in). Further downstream at Lovington
3450-517: The normal level is between 0.08 metres (3.1 in) and 0.56 metres (1 ft 10 in). The furthest downstream monitoring station at Clyse Hole near Street records a normal range of 0.15 metres (5.9 in) and 0.49 metres (1 ft 7 in). For the purposes of monitoring of water quality the Brue and Axe are considered together. In 2013 19 water bodies within the area were considered to have moderate water quality with two being poor and four good quality. Agriculture and rural land management
3519-447: The ordinary course would have terminated his active career, becoming Commissioner of the dockyard at Portsmouth and governor of the Naval Academy . In 1778, on the occasion of the King's visit to Portsmouth, Hood was made a baronet . The war was deeply unpopular with much of the British public and navy. Many admirals had declined to serve under Lord Sandwich , the First Lord of the Admiralty . Admiral Rodney, who then commanded in
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#17327717550263588-506: The parish of Brewham in Somerset , England, and reaches the sea some 50 kilometres (31 mi) west at Burnham-on-Sea . It originally took a different route from Glastonbury to the sea, but this was changed by Glastonbury Abbey in the twelfth century. The river provides an important drainage route for water from a low-lying area which is prone to flooding which man has tried to manage through rhynes , canals, artificial rivers and sluices for centuries. The Brue Valley Living Landscape
3657-418: The peat digger who discovered it in 1970 and dating from the 3800s BC, is the world's oldest timber trackway , once thought to be the world's oldest engineered roadway. The track was built between what was in the early 4th millennium BC an island at Westhay and a ridge of high ground at Shapwick , close to the River Brue. The remains of similar tracks have been uncovered nearby, connecting settlements on
3726-483: The project area including internationally important sites such at the Glastonbury Lake Village and Sweet Track . Research on the Somerset Levels and Moors has been crucial to the understanding of the natural and human history of wetlands. The project is based solely on the peat-based soils of the Somerset Moors. It does not extend on to the marine clay soils of the more westerly Levels. The project has set out their major objectives. These include mapping and research on
3795-434: The river suitable for canoeing , and the river has been paddled as far up as Bruton, but above West Lydford only after recent rain. There are public footpaths alongside many stretches of the river. There are also areas of the river that serve as desirable spots for wild swimming . Highbridge and Burnham railway station provides access. There is further 2 miles (3.2 km) walk or cycle westwards mainly alongside
3864-404: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Hood&oldid=770938964 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
3933-448: The series of bold movements by which he first turned the French out of their anchorage at Basseterre of St Kitts and then beat off their attacks, were one of the best accomplishments of any British admiral during the war. On 12 April 1782 Hood took part in a British fleet under Rodney, which defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet that was planning an invasion of Jamaica . The French commander De Grasse, who had been responsible for
4002-451: The surrounding countryside is drained into it by way of numerous rhynes . It passes Glastonbury , where it acts as a natural boundary with nearby village of Street , before flowing in a largely artificial channel across the Somerset Levels and into the River Parrett at Burnham-on-Sea . It is joined by the North Drain , White's River (which takes the water of the River Sheppey , Cripps River (an artificial channel that connects it to
4071-410: The town, and as a result in 1984 a protective dam was built 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) upstream from the town. The mouth of the River Brue had an extensive harbour in Roman and Saxon times, before silting up in the medieval period. It was used again as a small harbour in the 17th and 18th centuries, and in 1833 the port of Highbridge was formally opened on the river. A new wharf, known as Clyce Wharf,
4140-419: The town. The valley includes several Sites of Special Scientific Interest including Westhay Moor , Shapwick Heath and Shapwick Moor . Much of the area has been at the centre of peat extraction on the Somerset Levels . Large areas of peat were laid down on the Somerset Levels, particularly in the River Brue Valley, during the Quaternary period after the ice sheets melted. The extraction of peat from
4209-406: The victory at Chesapeake , was captured and taken back to Britain as a prisoner. Eventually Hood was ordered to chase, and with his division of 12 ships he captured 4 ships at the Mona Passage on 19 April 1782, thus completing the defeat. While serving in the Caribbean , Hood became acquainted with, and later became a mentor to, Horatio Nelson , who was a young frigate captain. Hood had been
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#17327717550264278-416: The yardarm of HMS Brunswick on 29 October 1794. Following the outbreak of the French Revolutionary War , Hood became Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet in February 1793. In August 1793 French royalists and other opponents of the revolution took over the city of Toulon and invited Hood, whose fleet was blockading offshore, to occupy the town. Hood, without time to request instructions from
4347-411: Was Member for Reigate between 1789 and 1790. He died in Greenwich on 27 January 1816 and is buried in Greenwich Hospital Cemetery. A peerage of Great Britain was conferred on his wife, Susannah, as Baroness Hood of Catherington in 1795. Samuel Hood's titles descended to his youngest son, Henry (1753–1836). There are several portraits of Lord Hood by Lemuel Francis Abbott in the Guildhall and in
4416-416: Was built in 1911 and extended in 1972. It carries the A39 road over the Brue. Before the 13th century the direct route to the sea at Highbridge was blocked by gravel banks and peat near Westhay. The course of the river partially encircled Glastonbury from the south, around the western side (through Beckery ), and then north through the Panborough - Bleadney gap in the Wedmore - Wookey Hills, to join
4485-410: Was built on the Huntspill side of the river mouth by 1904, and was used for the import of coal and the export of bricks and tiles and agricultural products. The port closed in 1949. Both Galton's Canal and Brown's Canal , which were built in the early 19th century, were connected to the river. The Glastonbury Canal used the course of the River Brue from Highbridge to Cripp's Bridge, and part of
4554-427: Was promoted to full admiral on 12 April 1794. Samuel Hood was created Viscount Hood of Whitley, Warwickshire in 1796 with a pension of £2000 per year for life (about £250,000 a year in 2023 terms). In 1796, he was also appointed Governour of the Greenwich Hospital , a position which he held until his death in 1816. He served as Tory Member of Parliament for Westminster from 1784 to 1788 and from 1790 to 1796, and
4623-429: Was replaced and moved further downstream. The area around Bruton has suffered over the centuries. The earliest recorded damage was in 1768 when a stone bridge was destroyed after the river rose very rapidly. On 28 June 1917, 242.8 millimetres (9.56 in) of rain fell in 24 hours at Bruton, leaving a water mark on one pub 20 feet (6.1 m) above the normal level of the river. In 1982 extensive flooding occurred in
4692-567: Was stranded in Butleigh when his carriage broke down on the way to Plymouth. The Rev Samuel Hood rescued him and gave him hospitality for the night. Samuel and his younger brother Alexander were inspired by his stories of the sea and he offered to help them in the Navy. While granting permission for Samuel and Alexander to join the Navy, the Rev Samuel Hood and his wife decided to prohibit similar service by his other sons as "they might be drowned". Their third son Arthur William became Vicar of Butleigh but died of fever in his 30s. Another son drowned in
4761-401: Was used during Romano-British period when it was the site of salt extraction. At that time, the Brue formed a lake just south of the hilly ground on which Glastonbury stands. According to legend this lake is one of the locations suggested by Arthurian legend as the home of the Lady of the Lake . Pomparles Bridge stood at the western end of this lake, guarding Glastonbury from the south, and it
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