Pill Br

A detached house standing on its own close to Knole Hill. It is named after the close by abandoned mediaeval village Bineham. Name varies on maps. Some maps call this Bineham City Cottage. The adjacent farm is Bineham City Farm.

This farm track runs north from the main farm access track to Bearley Farm towards the Bearley Brook. The land is very flat here being on the southern edge of the Somerset Levels.

Taken from bridge on B3151 near Northover.

Photograph taken from B3151 bridge outside Northover.

The A303 from the bridge on Pillbridge Lane

Gas works on Pillbridge Lane, Ilchester

The river Yeo or Ivel looking upstream from Pill Bridge.

Pill bridge on Pillbridge Lane, only wide enough to walk single file.

Ilchester was a major town where the Fosse way crosses the River Yeo over this bridge. Now a bypassed backwater - though it still gets the sound of the traffic plus the aircraft from Yeovilton .

Looking south from the hostelry, along the main street in Ilchester

Viewed looking downstream from Ilchester Bridge, the River Yeo is also known by its Old English name of the River Ivel. The name Ilchester is derived from the Old English 'Givelcestre' meaning 'The fort on the River Ivel'.

Although the Fosse Way crossed the River Yeo at this point, the bridge itself dates from the late 12th or early 13th century. However it was extensively remodelled in 1797. These are the northern three of the bridge's seven arches on the downstream side. To the right of the right-hand arch is the central island which was the location of a gaol and a chapel in the 16th century.

This column was built in 1795 at the north end of the town green on the site of an earlier market cross. Somerset County Council's Historic Environment Record describes it thus: "Ham stone. Circular base with two chamfered offsets, set on circular step; square stepped plinth carrying simple Doric column with entablature moulding over, then square-plan block with sundials having sheet metal gnomons, and a ball finial with wrought-iron wind vane." It is a Grade II listed structure and English Heritage Listed Building Number 263445. The top portion was blown over in a storm on 25 January 1991 and rebuilt the following year.

This church is now disused and in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust. Although no longer needed for regular worship churches like these remain as consecrated buildings.

View from lay-by on Bondip Hill facing east across fields

View from lay-by facing NW along road

This drove has been surfaced with gravel and sand for half its length