Dunster railway station Dunster railway station Dunster railway station is near Dunster, Somerset, England and is on the West Somerset Railway, a heritage railway. The station was opened on 16 July 1874 by the Minehead Railway. The line was operated by the Bristol and Exeter Railway which was also amalgamated into the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1876. The Minehead Railway was itself absorbed into the GWR in 1897. A small signal box stood at the end of the platform, but was demolished in 1926 when this was extended. In 1934 a "new" signal box at the opposite end of the station, brought
Henry Dunster the Dunster and Glover Families held in the Harvard University Archives. Henry Dunster Henry Dunster (November 26, 1609 (baptized) – February 27, 1658/1659) was an Anglo-American Puritan clergyman and the first president of Harvard College. Brackney says Dunster was "an important precursor" of the Baptist denomination in America, especially regarding infant baptism, soul freedom, religious liberty, congregational governance, and a radical biblicism. He was born at Bolholt, Bury, Lancashire, England to Henry Dunster (1580–1646) and Henry's first wife Isabel Kaye. Dunster studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge as a sizar, specializing in oriental languages and earning a reputation as a Hebrew