Haselbury Plucknett, a village 2-1/2 m.  N.E. of Crewkerne.  It has a Perp. church with an E.E.  N. chapel, which is associated with the memory of St Wulfric, who, born at Compton Martin, resided here, and died in 1154.  The body of the Church has an old font.  A priory of Austin canons, dating from the 12th cent., once existed here.

Hatch Beauchamp, 6 m.  S.E. from Taunton, is a village (with station) situated in very picturesque surroundings.  The church (best reached through the deer park) has a good tower, crowned with numerous pinnacles.  Note (1) the foliaged bands round the pillars of the arcade; (2) the excellent bench-ends; (3) the fragments of old glass in the windows of the N. aisle; (4) the large picture, a “Descent from the Cross,” by Perriss; (5) the window in the chancel to the memory of Colonel J.R.M.  Chard, of Rorke’s Drift fame, with a wreath preserved beneath it sent by Queen Victoria.  The obelisk near the S. door is said to have once been the churchyard cross.

Hatch, West, a village 1-1/2 m.  W. of Hatch Beauchamp.  The church has been entirely rebuilt (1861).

Hawkridge, a parish 5 m.  N.W. of Dulverton Station, consisting merely of a cluster of cottages and a tiny church.  It is perched on the top of a ridge of high ground separating the Barle from its tributary stream the Danes Brook.  The valleys on either side are beautifully wooded, and exhibit some of the most romantic scenery in Somerset.  The church has a plain Norm. doorway.

Heathfield, a parish 2-1/2 m.  E. of Milverton.  Its church is small, and the only objects of interest which it contains are (1) a mural monument on the N. of the chancel, with kneeling figures, of the 16th cent.; (2) a carved oak pulpit (said to be reconstructed from ancient materials).  There is the shaft of an ancient cross in the graveyard, with a mutilated figure.

Hemington, a village lying at the end of a wide vale, 3 m.  E.S.E. from Radstock.  The church has a few features in common with the neighbouring church of Buckland Denham, viz., (1) peculiar arrangement of windows in tower, (2) clerestory to nave, though the building possesses only one aisle.  The interior shows (a) some good Dec. work in windows, some of which have foliated rear arches, with detached shaft; (b) plain Norm. chancel arch.  Observe also (1) piscina on the respond of the chancel arcade, (2) the central pier of the arcade (it is surrounded by four detached shafts).  On the hill above the village, standing by the side of the Trowbridge road, is a square tower of as much beauty as utility, locally known as “Turner’s Folly.”  The “green” of the neighbouring hamlet of Falkland retains its ancient stocks.