Stoke sub Hamdon, Somerset

Description
Stoke-under-Hamdon (popularly, Stoke-under-Ham), a parish, with East Stoke and West Stoke villages, in Somerset, 1 1/2 mile from Montacute station on the G.W.R., and 5 1/2 miles WNW of Yeovil. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 1380; population, 1726. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belongs to the Duchy of Cornwall. Hamdon Hill, on the boundary, is separately noticed. Glove-making is carried on. Remains exist of Roman entrenchments. The Roman Fosse Way skirts the N of the parish. There is an old house in the village which formerly was a college of Chantry priests. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £130 with residence. The church is in mixed architecture and cruciform, with an embattled tower. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels, and a working men's institute.