Halstock
Coordinates: 50°52′08″N 2°39′25″W / 50.869°N 2.657°W
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 Halstock
Halstock shown within Dorset |
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| Population | 470 |
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| District | West Dorset |
| Shire county | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| List of places: UK • England • Dorset | |
Halstock is a village in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies within the West Dorset administrative district of the county, about five miles south of the town of Yeovil in Somerset. It lies on the route of the ancient Harrow Way.[1] The village has a population of 470 (2001), down from a peak of over 600 in the mid-nineteenth century.
Halstock formerly constituted a liberty, containing only the parish itself. It was the site of the martyrdom of Saint Juthwara (Juthware),[2] and a Romano-British Villa, excavated between 1967-1985.[3][4]
The village formerly had two inns, both now closed - "The New Inn" (New Inn Farm), which closed in the late 1950s,[5] and the unusually named "The Quiet Woman" (usually taken as a reference to St Juthware), which closed in the mid 1990s.
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- Lemmey, Pam, A History of Halstock, P.R. Lemmey, Liberty Farm, Halstock, ISBN 0 951 2063 0 3
- Lucas, R.N. (1993), The Romano-British villa at Halstock, Dorset Excavations 1967-1985 (Monograph Series:No.13), Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, ISBN 0 900341 37 8
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Coordinates: 50°52′08″N 2°39′25″W / 50.869°N 2.657°W
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