HAWKRIDGE, a parish in the hundred of WILLITON-and-FREEMANNERS,
county of SOMERSET, 4 miles
(W. N. W.) from Dulverton, containing 50 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Taunton,
and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's
books at £ 13. 8. 4. Miss Wood was patroness in 1801.
The church is dedicated to St. Giles. Castle bridge, so
named from its vicinity to an ancient fortress cajled
Monceaux castle, crosses a stream which separates this
parish from Dulverton: near it is an old encampment
called riawkridge Castle.