Portal:Somerset/Did you know/11

From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:

... that while playing for Lansdown Cricket Club in 1865, W. G. Grace (pictured) and two of his brothers took all of the opposition United England Eleven's twenty wickets?
... that the remains of Melanie Hall who went missing in 1996 were discovered by the M5 motorway in October 2009?
... that following the purchase of British Energy by Électricité de France, plans for a new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station have been announced?
... that the Castle Cary Cut-Off reduced the 325½ mile distance between London Paddington and Penzance railway stations by 20¼ miles?
... that Lilstock church only holds one service a year, and the last marriage held there was in 1834?