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Updated: May 14, 2025
On the E. they are flanked with the Oxford clay, which reaches from Henstridge to Witham Friary, whilst a ridge of higher ground near Penselwood consists of greensand. Near Radstock coal is found.
The main route goes directly over Henstridge Down and descends the hill to the large village of Henstridge on a main cross-country road and with a station on the Somerset and Dorset Railway, making it a convenient point from which to take two interesting side excursions northwards to the hill-country beyond Wincanton and south to the upper valley of the Stour.
The old Virginia Inn at the cross roads claims to be the actual scene of the "quenching" of Sir Walter Raleigh. Henstridge church is much restored, or rather, rebuilt, but still contains the fine canopied altar tomb of William Carent and his wife.
After this long divergence a return must be made to Henstridge, where a walk of less than two miles takes one over the Dorset border to Stalbridge, a sleepy old town that is not troubled by the fact that it has a station on the Somerset and Dorset Railway and that fast expresses from the north roar down the Blackmore Vale to Bournemouth and the sea.
The "green" of the neighbouring hamlet of Falkland retains its ancient stocks. Henstridge, a large village 7 m. There is a 15th-cent. altar-tomb in the chancel under a carved and coloured canopy, with two effigies. The arms that adorn the tomb are those of Carent and Stourton.
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