Raddington, a village on the border of Devonshire, 2 m.  N. of Venn Cross Station.  The church contains a good panelled oak roof and a fine screen.  In the chancel is a mutilated piscina.

RADSTOCK, a small town 8-1/2 m.  S.W. from Bath, with two stations close together in the centre of the main street.  It possibly derives its name from its proximity to the Fosse Way.  It is now the metropolis of the Somerset coalfield.  It is a rather disconnected sort of place, lying in a deep valley surrounded by coal-pits, and throwing out long rows of workmen’s cottages up the hillsides.  The church, originally a small building (as the rood-stair on the S. wall indicates), has been restored and enlarged out of all recognition.  A curious bas-relief, with the Crucifixion on one side and the Virgin and Child on the other, has been built into the E. wall of the S. porch.  Within the church is a heavy Norm. font and a mutilated piscina.

Redlynch, a small hamlet 1-1/2 m.  S.E. from Bruton.  The church is without interest. Redlynch Park is the seat of the Earl of Ilchester.

Rimpton, a village 3/4 m.  S.E. of Marston Magna Station.  It has a pretty church, cruciform in plan, with a chancel of E.E. or Dec. origin.  There is a niche for a stoup inside the S. door, and piscinas in the chancel and S. transept.  The pulpit is Jacobean, whilst some of the carved bench-ends date from the 15th or 16th cent., and bear the Tudor rose.  Note the squint and ancient font.

Road, a village on the borders of Wiltshire, 4 m.  N.N.E. from Frome.  The church has a heavy embattled tower, from the top of which Charles II. is said to have reconnoitred the surrounding country after his hurried flight from Worcester.  The interior is disappointing.  There is an empty canopied recess in the S. aisle, and a piscina in the chancel.

Rodden, a small parish 1-1/2 m.  E. from Frome.  There is no village.  The church stands in a farmyard, and has to be reached by crossing the fields.  It is a quaint little pseudo-Perp. structure with a toy tower, built 1640.

Rowberrow, 2-1/2 m.  E. from Winscombe or Sandford Stations, is a parish which was once the centre of a mining district, but the mines are now disused.  Its little church lies under Dolbury Camp.  Above the S. porch is a stone with interlaced carving.

Ruborough Camp.  See Broomfield.

Ruishton, a village 3 m.  E. of Taunton.  Its church has a massive tower, with double belfry windows and prominent buttresses, but the absence of parapet and pinnacles gives it an unfinished appearance.  Traces of Norm. architecture remain in the S. porch, and there is some Dec. work, in the S. chapel, but the nave is Perp.  The font is richly carved.  A poor painting—­the Adoration of the Magi—­which is supposed to be Flemish, forms an altarpiece.  In the churchyard is the base of a large cross.