IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
West Street, STOKE-SUB-HAMDON, TA14 6PZ

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This page details the photographs taken nearby to West Street, TA14 6PZ by members of the Geograph project.

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#8 West Street, Stoke Sub Hamdon
There is an Ordnance Survey benchmark just visible on bottom right of picture. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4487152 and http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm50631 for link to benchmark database.
Image: © Becky Williamson Taken: 22 May 2015
0.01 miles
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Benchmark, #8 West Street, Stoke Sub Hamdon
Ordnance Survey benchmark, described on database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm50631.
Image: © Becky Williamson Taken: 22 May 2015
0.01 miles
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The Fleur de Lis - Stoke sub Hamdon
This 15th century pub is situated in West Street and is thought to have been an annexe to the Priory. The doors are arched and the one on the right has magnificently carved spandrels. Behind the building is an old Fives court.
Image: © Sarah Smith Taken: 24 Oct 2009
0.06 miles
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Fives Wall at the Fleur de Lis
This large wall over 30 ft high is all that remains of a once popular game. There are several others in the area where Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset adjoin. Fives was a ball game played with the hand using a small leather-covered ball. It is possible that the game was introduced by monks from the Basque country who came to build monasteries. The Fleur de Lis Inn at Stoke sub Hamdon was originally the lodgings of monks building the Priory nearby and this wall at the rear of the inn in an excellent state of preservation. The game was also played up against church towers, often causing problems. In one set of churchwardens' accounts of 1705 is the cost of 4 shillings for repairing a window at the fives place. Another of the local fives walls at Hinton St George is known as the Pelota Wall which may indicate its origins, for pelota is a game like fives, played in the Basque country. Some of the inns had temporary grandstands built near walls where crowds gathered to watch the local matches. One old record indicates that 'over £60 was taken at the gate for the fives match.' The Fives Court here at the Fleur de Lis used to have a six foot square flat stone let into the ground twenty yards from the wall. The player bounced the ball on the square, then struck it with his bare hand to hit the wall, the object being to cause the ball to rebound on the stone square. He had several goes and the referee would say where the wall was to be struck each time. The skill was in the ability of the player to put the necessary spin on the ball to make it rebound on the stone square from any part of the wall and so score a point. If the ball missed there was no score.
Image: © Nigel Mykura Taken: 24 Jan 2009
0.08 miles
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Dovecote at Rectory Farm (Priory), Stoke Sub Hamdon
The round dovecote (behind the gable) could be where Thomas Strode, "Purveyor of poultry to the King's table" raised doves for Henry VIII.
Image: © Mike Edwards Taken: 26 Mar 2006
0.09 miles
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Fleur de Lis Inn
This shows the back yard of the inn with the fives wall on the right, the skittle alley on the left and in the background Ham Hill which dominates the village and the local countryside.
Image: © Nigel Mykura Taken: 24 Jan 2009
0.09 miles
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Parsonage Farmhouse (the Priory), Stoke Sub Hamdon
Originally a chantry college established in the 14th Century and Grade-I listed: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-441493-parsonage-farmhouse-the-priory-stoke-sub#.V79L-iZTGmQ . The Ham stone comes from Ham Hill, just a kilometre away.
Image: © Bill Harrison Taken: 7 Jul 2016
0.10 miles
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Former Methodist Chapel, West Street
Former Methodist Chapel, now for sale for conversion to a dwelling.
Image: © Vieve Forward Taken: 2 May 2018
0.10 miles
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The old barn, Stoke sub Hamdon Priory
Image: © Ken Grainger Taken: 1 Jul 2009
0.10 miles
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Priory gateway - Stoke sub Hamdon
Through the massive gateway one catches a glimpse of the 14th century Priest's House.
Image: © Sarah Smith Taken: 24 Oct 2009
0.11 miles
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