Montacute, House 1900
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Photo of Montacute, House 1900

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The name of the delightful Ham stone village of Montacute derives from St Michael's Hill to the west, in Latin 'mons acutus', or 'steep hill'. Montacute House lies to the north-east; it is a superb E-plan country house of the 1590s, of three storeys. Its top-storey long gallery contains the Tudor collections of the National Portrait Gallery. Now in the care of the National Trust, the house and gardens were featured in the film 'Sense and Sensibility'.

A Selection of Memories from Montacute

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Montacute

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I have some very fond memories of Montacute when my sister and I were sent to stay with some very distant relatives during the war. We were living in Kent at the time and my mother was very worried for our safety when the blitz of London started and we were sent down to Montacute and stayed with 'Aunt Em' and 'Uncle Will', no other details known but their house overlooked a farm which I seem to remember being ...see more
My family the Draytons lived in Montacute for most of the 1800's. The lived quite a lot of their life in Bishopstone St. If anyone has any more information about what Montacute was like in those times, or about Townsend Poor House Cottages, I'd love to hear from you. Elissa