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    Hamstone is a honey-coloured building stone from Ham Hill, Somerset, England. It is a well-cemented medium to coarse grained limestone characterised by...
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  • Hamstone House is a large detached house on the St George's Hill estate in the English county of Surrey. The house stands in 8 acres of grounds that are...
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    England, "Hamstone House (1030101)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 16 March 2019 Historic England, "Lodges and garage to Hamstone House (1286843)"...
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    Somerset, England. The hill has given its name to the distinctive quarried hamstone and also to two nearby villages: Stoke-sub-Hamdon and Norton Sub Hamdon...
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    often as a cladding rather than a structural material. Further south, Hamstone is the colloquial name given to stone from Ham Hill, which is also widely...
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    hotel. In the medieval period the River Parrett was used to transport Hamstone from the quarry at Ham Hill. Bridgwater was part of the Port of Bristol...
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    Manor House, West Coker (category Hamstone buildings)
    around 1308, was destroyed by fire in the 1457, and rebuilt with local Hamstone between 1473 and 1500. The fire was started by an "armed mob" led by the...
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    This stands in the village of Barwick, just to the south of the town. The hamstone Abbey Farm House was built about 1420 by John Stourton II, known as Jenkyn...
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    commemorated in the churchyard by one of two 18th-century chest tombs made from hamstone. Mounted on the north nave wall is a fragment of the altar cloth used in...
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    Bridge". Lind used elm wood from the old bridge for the dining room floor of Hamstone House, his house that he commissioned and built in 1938 at St George's...
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