minterne

Updated: May 11, 2025

Lord Digby replied: 'Minterne, Dorset: January 7, 1883. 'My dear Henry, My grandfather killed a fox with his hounds either in Bedford or Russell Square. Old Jones, the huntsman, who died at Holkham when you were a child, was my informant. I asked my grandfather if it was correct.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone

Its diminutive church has been much restored and has little of interest, except some ancient glass that has been left in the windows. A glorious walk could be taken eastwards by lonely little Batcombe with its marvellous legends of "Conjuring Minterne," whose grave is in the churchyard. The short five miles of road from Yeovil to Sherborne passes over the curiously named Babylon Hill.

Edric Holmes - Wanderings in Wessex: An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter