Image: painting of Montacute Borough by local artist Rebecca Stidson.
Hamstone: Montacute's older houses and Montacute House are made of hamstone quarried locally from Ham Hill. The golden glow of the stone is especially stunning in the early morning sun. It is still quarried for building materials and the stonemasons also make gorgeous decorative pieces.
R.W. Dunning edited the multi-volume amazing Victoria County History publication 'A History of the County of Somerset', and has written and edited other great books about the history of Somerset including Christianity in Somerset (1975), Some Somerset Country Houses (1991), Somerset Castles (1995), Fifty Somerset Churches (1996), A Somerset Miscellany (2005), Victorian & Edwardian Somerset (2008), and Arthur: The King in the West (2010)
The Waltham Chronicle: An Account of the Discovery of Our Holy Cross at Montacute and Its Conveyance to Waltham (Oxford Medieval Texts) by Leslie Watkiss and Marjorie Chibnall 1994
One from the Plough by Brendon Owen (2001), The Gazebo Press
BY LOCAL AUTHORS:
Memories and a Short History of Montacute by Alfred Gordon Geard 2004
Under the Shadow of the Hill; Montacute, 1939-1945 by Clarence Bradley 2015
A Peewit in Wartime: A Child's War in Somerset by Gordon Rendell 2022
