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Dunster, town (parish), West Somerset district, administrative and historic county of Somerset, southwestern England. It lies at the edge of Exmoor National Park and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Dunster Beach on the Bristol Channel. Dunster is dominated by its hilltop castle, and the remains of a prehistoric Iron Age settlement have been discovered in the deer park. After the Norman Conquest (1066), the castle became the caput (administrative centre) of an honour (feudal administrative division) that included lands in the counties of Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and Wiltshire. The town was incorporated in the 12th century. A 16th-century octagonal building, ...(100 of 124 words)

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