English Heritage sites near West Crewkerne Parish
MUCHELNEY ABBEY
10 miles from West Crewkerne Parish
Once a wealthy Benedictine house, Muchelney’s main buildings were demolished by Henry VIII in 1538. See the richly decorated cloister walk and thatched monks’ lavatory – the only one in Britain.
SHERBORNE OLD CASTLE
15 miles from West Crewkerne Parish
Built on a grand scale in the 12th century by the Bishop of Salisbury, Sherborne was coveted by churchmen and noblemen alike giving it a long, chequered history. Picnic, shop, light refreshments.
WINTERBOURNE POOR LOT BARROWS
15 miles from West Crewkerne Parish
A 'cemetery' of 44 Bronze Age burial mounds of varying types and sizes, straddling the A35 main road.
KINGSTON RUSSELL STONE CIRCLE
16 miles from West Crewkerne Parish
A late Neolithic or early Bronze Age circle of 18 fallen stones, on a hilltop overlooking Abbotsbury and the sea.
THE NINE STONES
16 miles from West Crewkerne Parish
Now in a wooded glade, this small prehistoric circle of nine standing stones was constructed around 4,000 years ago and is surrounded by a mysterious air. Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrows are nearby.
ABBOTSBURY ABBEY REMAINS
17 miles from West Crewkerne Parish
Part of a monastic building, perhaps the abbot’s lodging, of Benedictine Abbotsbury Abbey, Henry VIII ordered its destruction during the Dissolution in 1538. St Catherine's Chapel is nearby.
Churches in West Crewkerne Parish
Church of the Good Shepherd
Watery Lane
Hewish
Crewkerne
(01460) 72638
http://www.wulfric.org/our-churches/church-of-the-good-shepard-hewish/
Our Church is a very small building known as a Chapel of Ease which was built in 1868 in Ham stone cut and squared,ashlar dressings with a plain clay tiled roof with bands of beaver-tail tiles, saw tooth ridge, and step coped end gables with cross finials. There are 4 hollow-chamfer mullioned windows, two to each flank wall, each with 3-lead lights. A simple porch on the east side of gothic revival and set above is a plain bell turret holding a single bell on a stepped coped gable. The interior is very simple, with arch-braced king post roof truss of 6 bays, simple pews and other fittings, including a C19 octagonal panelled stone font.
The Church is located on the outskirts of the tiny hamlet of Hewish near Crewkerne in the heart of farming countryside. It was in fact built originally as a school with services held at the weekends to enable the labour intensive farm workers to attend services whereas they would have had to walk 2 miles or so to the our mother Church of St Bartholomew in Crewkerne.
Pubs in West Crewkerne Parish
Blue Boy Inn
Blue Boy Inn, Clapton
Travellers Rest
Travellers Rest, Roundham