In July 1959, the weather was exceptionally dry, parching the ground and withering crops. At Pendomer, a spark from a railway engine set fire to a quarter acre of wheat, while at Font Hill, West Coker, two and a half tons of baled hay belonging to Sonny White of the Royal Oak, Hardington Moor, was destroyed by fire.[1]

References

[1] Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser, 1 August 1959, p.1.