A mile from the village on the Stowey road (take path to left) is another manor house, Blackmoor Farm.  It has a good porch, and retains its chapel (note piscina and niches), over the W. end of which some of the chambers on the first floor project.

Carhampton, a village on the Dunster and Williton road, 2 m.  S.E. of Dunster.  The church has been restored and in parts rebuilt.  It still contains a fine and richly coloured screen, evidently copied from the one at Dunster (cp.  Timberscombe), but there are no indications of a stairway.  Note (1) piscinas in S. aisle and chancel, (2) carved wall-plate in S. aisle.  There is the base of a cross in the churchyard.  On the road to Blue Anchor there is an ancient manor-house, called Marshwood Farm, which has in its porch some curious plaster figures.

CASTLE CARY, a small market town at S.E. corner of the county, with a station (1 m.) at the junction of the G.W.R.  Weymouth line with the Langport loop.  Its population in 1901 was 1904.  The town has a pleasant air of old-fashionedness about it.  The castle which gave it its name long since disappeared from history, and until recently from knowledge.  It was only in 1890 that its site was revealed.  Some excavations in a field at the bottom of Lodge Hill brought to light the foundations of a large square Norm. keep.  Its outlines are now marked by pillars.  It seems to have acquired notoriety chiefly in the disorderly days of Stephen.  The Church possesses a good spire, and is conspicuously situated.  But though outwardly picturesque, it has little of interest within.  Note, however, (1) piscina in chancel, (2) oak screen, (3) carved pulpit, (4) panel and canopied effigy over S. porch.  There is also a shallow font (temp. Henry VI.) on a pedestal of curious design.

Castle Neroche, locally known as Castle Ratch, a remarkable earthwork of problematical origin, 7 m.  S. of Taunton.  It crowns the edge of a precipitous hillside, over which runs the main road to Chard.  The camp is of quite exceptional strength, and occupies a position of great strategic importance.  Recent excavations have proved it to have been occupied and strengthened, if not originally made, by the Normans.  On the accessible side looking towards Chard the station is defended by a triple row of ramparts and ditches, but the side overlooking the vale of Taunton is so precipitous that the only protection provided appears to have been a kind of citadel surmounted probably by a keep.  The centre of this once formidable military position is now incongruously occupied by a farm-house.  The view from the citadel or beacon across Taunton Dean is far-reaching and exhilarating.  The outlook on the other side is circumscribed by the high ground beyond.