IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
CREWKERNE, TA18 7TQ

– view W across the centre of the square from near Barn Lane.

Somewhat unexpected; a pair of ropes have been stretched across the lane to ensure cattle head from one field to another rather than along the lane. They're fairly tight, so I was worried about snapping them, but they were at a perfect level for a normal saloon car to creep very gently beneath. The trees in the background are along Ford's Croft Goil. See http://www.yeovilhistory.info/lydegurl.htm : "'Gurl', also found as goyle, goil, goyal and guile, is a Somerset dialect word meaning a ravine, gully or steep-sided narrow valley usually with a stream running down". See also Image

Looking up the lane shown in Image], with one of the ropes crossing the lane, which is climbing towards the junction shown in Image The rope remains intact after my car's passage beneath it.

So anxious was I to get a proper photo of this signpost that I stopped the car in the middle of the road and failed to notice that the first vehicle I'd seen for a long while had stopped behind me. Yes, I know, I should be travelling on foot. Very polite, they didn't hoot. See also Image]

The traditional Somerset signpost on the right, but this junction goes unnamed on maps. Image shows it from the lane on the left.

The former Shutteroaks Toll House is also shown in Image It sits beside Shutteroaks Bridge, over a tributary of the Parrett. Why haunted? Well, there is this: "the people who lived there ... used to have their weaving press moved" apparently by a poltergeist https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=buBPZnky-TQC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=hinton+crewkerne+%22haunted+house%22&source=bl&ots=b--bA_7aDW&sig=ACfU3U2NXuBbjJCf9eEA8DkGmvz8Otl3lw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiA9KzE2ITiAhVxsHEKHaAXCC8Q6AEwBHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=hinton%20crewkerne%20%22haunted%20house%22&f=false .