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The medieval village of Montacute is predominantly built of Hamstone - the mellow golden stone quarried on the nearby quarry at Ham Hill. the impressive Elizabethan mansion, Montacute House, now owned by the National Trust, was built by Sir Edward Phelips who helped prosecute Guy Fawkes in 1605. It has been used as a setting for several films including "Sense and Sensibility".
The village square, known as "The Borough", is surrounded by picturesque houses and nearby St. Catherines Church is worth a visit.
From the cottage there are wonderful walks directly over fields to neighbouring villages. Much land is owned by the National Trust and provids superb access to the local countryside, to Ham Hill or to St. Michaels Hill, the site of a Norman castle but now the site of the Phelips Folly, a tower with magnificent views over the Somerset Levels, the Quantocks and Mendip Hills.
The village has two pubs which provide excellent food, a small post office/saddlery which stocks some food and a garage which also sells foodstuffs and newspapers.A larger supermarket can be found in the neighbouring village of East Stoke, about half a mile away and Yeovil, a far larger shopping centre, is about three miles away.
The Montacute Radio and TV museum in the village has a small tea room.
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