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It is built round three sides of a quadrangle, the fourth being occupied by a curious gatehouse or porter's lodge. On the arch by the road Judge Jeffreys hung two adherents of Monmouth's by way of retort to Lord Stawell for remonstrating with him for his cruelty. On the S. extremity of the Quantocks is Cothelstone Beacon. a round tower, which is a conspicuous object from the valley.
The fragment of a canopy will be noticed built into a wall on the road-side. Some Roman remains have been found in the neighbourhood. Cossington, a picturesque village on the Poldens, with a station on the S. & D.J.R. Its church is beautifully situated, but retains little to interest the antiquarian, except a brass of the 16th cent. Cothelstone, a parish at the base of the Quantocks, 2 m.
N.N.W. of Bishop's Lydeard Station, has a church dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury. The one dates from the 14th, the other from the 16th cent., and both are well worth examining. Adjoining the church is Cothelstone Manor, the home of the Stawells, a Jacobean house, partially destroyed by Blake in the Civil War.
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