Henstridge is a village and parish situated on the river Stour and intersected by the high road from London to Exeter, on the Dorset border of the county, with a station on the Somerset and Dorset Railway, 7 miles south from Wincanton, 114 from London, in the eastern division of the county, Charlton Horethorne hundred, Wincanton petty sessional division, union and county court district, Milborne Port district of the rural deanery of Merston, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St Nicholas was rebuilt in 1873 using local local forest marble with doulting stone dressings. The church now consists of chancel, with north aisle, organ chamber on the south side, serving also as a vestry, nave of five bays, aisles, south porch and a western tower, with stair turret, containing a clock and 5 bells ............... The Registers date from 1653. There are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels here and a Wesleyan chapel at Yenston.

The soil is loamy and subsoil is limestone. The land is chiefly used for dairying purposes. the area is 3,073 acres and the population in 1881 was 1,299.

1889 Kelly's Directory