Dinder

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Dinder (which means "the house in the valley") is a small village in Somerset. The river Sheppey runs down the main street of the village.

The manor containing the village formed part of the endowment of the bishopric of Wells, which is located only 2 miles north-east of the village. By the 12th century it had been granted to William Fitzjohn, whose decsendents were known as 'Harptree' or Flemining. By 1327, the manor was owned by a Richard de Rodney, whose family retained possession until it was sold in the mid 17th century to Richard Hickes, through whose descendants it passed to the Somerville family who built Dinder House and whose most famous member, Admiral James Somerville, was in charge of the British naval force which sank the French fleet at Oran in 1940.