Treasurer's House
opposite the Parish Church, dates from the 13th and 14th centuries and is the oldest inhabited building in the county. It was renovated by the National Trust in 2003.

Admission   to the hall and kitchen only costs £1.50 with no reduction for children   (tel: +44 1935 843600).

Market House
In the centre of the village, Market House once housed the village's fire engine and the fire bell still remains to be seen on the roof of the building.

The tall column in front of Market House is known as the Pinnacle.

The large and elaborate 15th Century church, dedicated to All Saints, while the second largest in the county, is more widely reknowned for the marvellous carved tie-beam roof of its nave which is reckoned to be the finest example of its kind in the country.

The churchyard is one of many in Somerset which was used to play the long-forgotten game of fives - a buttress on the north wall still bears the foot-holds cut into it for the recovery of lost balls.

Martock is mentioned in the Conqueror's Domesday Book of 1087 as "Mertoch", "Mertoch" from the Old English "meretorht" meaning 'rising bright from the shining sea'.

Before the Norman conquest of 1066, the manor was in the possession of Queen Edith or Eagdith, wife of the powerful Earl Godwin of Wessex and the mother of Earl Harold, elected as Harold II by the witan on the death of the Confessor in 1066 to be the last Saxon King of England.

MARTOCK, a parish and small post town in the hundred of the same name, county Somerset, 3 miles E. of South Petherton, and 4 W. by S. of Ilchester, its post town. It is a station on the Yeovil branch of the Bristol and Exeter line of railway. The name of this place is said to be derived from "mart" and "oak," a market having been formerly held under an oak tree near the centre of the town, where now stands a fluted column designed in imitation of the pillar of Trojan at Rome. The market has long been discontinued, but the town is still considerable, consisting principally of one street about a mile and a half in length. It, is situated on a small stream, tributary to the river Parret. The parish includes the tythings of Long Load, Ash, Bower Hinton, Coat, Milton, Stapleton, and Witcombe. A portion of the inhabitants are employed in glove-making, and others in weaving sailcloth. A court-leet is held in October by the lord of the manor, anciently presented by James I. to Lord Konteagle, for his services in detecting the Gunpowder Plot. The surface is pleasingly varied, and the soil chiefly clay.

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THOMAS BUDD (1617-1617)
Resident of Martock, the Somersetshire parish rector who became a Quaker in 1657 and, refusing to take the oath of obedience to the Church of England in 1661, was arrested and died at Ilchester jail in 1670 after nine years of imprisonment.

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