Hawkridge, Somerset

Description
Hawkridge, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands on a hill adjacent to the rivulet Dun, at the boundary with Devonshire, and near the river Barle, 4 miles WNW of Dulverton station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Dulverton; money order and telegraph office, Dulverton. Acreage of the civil parish, 3395; population, 102; of the ecclesiastical, 299. Ruins of a baronial castle are adjacent to the Dun at Castle Bridge. The parish is a meet for the Dulverton harriers, and the Devon and Somerset hounds. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Withypoole, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £460. The church is Norman and good, consists of nave and chancel with square tower, and has a Norman font hewn out of a native block of stone at least half a ton in weight.