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Merton

This village is home to Barometer World and Museum, a remarkable collection that was begun by Edwin Banfield, a retired bank manager in the early 1970s. Along with housing the largest collection of English barometers on public display in the world, the museum is home to an exhibition that charts the development of domestic barometers from the 1680s to the present day as well as other unusual items that have been used, over the years, to predict the weather. Perhaps most extraordinary of all these bizarre devices is the Tempest Prognosticator that was designed by Dr George Merryweather and exhibited by him at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Styled on an Indian temple, the ‘machine’ uses live leeches to determine whether a storm is on its way!

Available Guidebooks for this region:

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The Hidden Places of Devon

This guidebook offers the reader places to stay, eat and drink as well as interesting places to visit and many main heritage sites. You can read more here.

The Hidden Places of England

This national guidebook covers every county in England offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to visit. You can read more here.

The Country Living Guide to the West Country

This guidebook covers Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to shop. You can read more here.

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