Roadside memorials are a form of folk ritual. We leave offerings and messages for the dead wherever we feel closest to them, and the gifts and imagery we leave in these places are both deeply personal and strangely universal; plastic flowers on an A-road; memorial plaques on the fringes of nowhere. Join me and rambling artist Man in the Woods on a gentle stroll through a diverse landscape of ancient battlegrounds, a public swimming pool, a boyband music video and the eerie expanse of Sedgemoor.

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Links to work by Man in the Woods:

https://www.maninthewoods.co.uk/about

https://www.instagram.com/man.in.the.woods/?hl=en

Articles about Somerset memorials for Princess Diana and Liam Payne:

https://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/14335229.celebrity-look-back-princess-diana-opens-sedgemoor-splash-in-bridgwater/ 

https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/15506691.how-somerset-was-united-by-grief-following-the-tragic-death-of-princess-diana-20-years-on/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5yxw6el05o 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c99yyjd7jddo

Account of the Battle of Sedgemoor/Monmouth Rebellion:

https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/listing/battlefields/sedgemoor/ 

Swan Mussels:

https://mussel-project.uwsp.edu/motm/2004/04-12.html

Weird Somerset:

https://www.instagram.com/weird_somerset/ 

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