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Montacute, The House 1900
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Heading north-west, the route reaches Montacute. A borough since around 1100, its name derives from St Michael's Hill to the west, in Latin 'mons acutus' or steep hill. It is a delightful Ham stone-built town, hardly larger now than a village. 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.

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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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Wartime Memories
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
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Drayton Family Of Odcombe
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
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