The Somerset Monument

After work I had to drive my Nan off to a holiday cottage in Hawesbury Upton, so that she can enjoy a week with her sisters and other family memebers.

Seeing her with her two sisters, reminds me how important family is!

From the holiday cottage I could see this monument in the distance and got curious as to what it was...well its:

The Somerset Monument, near Hawkesbury Upton, South Gloucs.

The Somerset Monument was built by Lewis Vulliamy in 1846 in memory of Robert Edward Henry Somerset. He was a general at the Battle of Waterloo of 1815, and died in 1842. He was a nephew of the Sixth Duke of Beaufort. The tower is approximately 100 feet tall.