HENSTRIDGE, a parish in the hundred of HORETHORNE,
county of SOMERSET, 6 miles (S. by E.) from.
Wincanton, containing 911 inhabitants. The living is
a vicarage, rated in the king's books at £13. 0. 2.,
and in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the
Prebendary of Henstridge in the Cathedral Church of
Wells. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. Here
was an Alien priory, a cell to the Benedictine monastery
of St. Sever, in Normandy, founded in the eleventh
century, by Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester.