Henstridge
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Henstridge is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated five miles east of Sherborne in the South Somerset district, near the border with Dorset. The village has a population of 1,651. The village is situated at the junction of the A30 and A357 roads and on the former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.
Just east of the village centre is Henstridge Airfield (ICAO code - EGHS). It was built during World War II as a training base for the Fleet Air Arm who commissioned it as HMS Dipper. Today visitors can still see the concrete outline of an aircraft carrier deck embedded into its one surviving runway. The MODsold the airfield in 1957 and today it is mainly used as a base for General aviation and is an active training centre for Autogyros (Gyrocopters).
Henstridge is mentioned rather unflatteringly in the 1983 book The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, which gives alternative meanings to village names in the UK. The village is listed as:
"HENSTRIDGE (n.) The dried yellow substance found between the prongs of forks in restaurants."
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- ^ Somerset County Council, 2002. Population estimates.
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