The Ham Hill Villages Benefice is a thriving, welcoming, loving Christian family, living and telling Jesus’ story of love and forgiveness in our communities.  We have seven beautiful, ancient churches which are the spiritual centres of the villages of Chiselborough, Middle Chinnock, Montacute, Norton sub Hamdon, Odcombe, Stoke sub Hamdon and West Chinnock surrounding the iconic Ham Hill in South Somerset.  

We give a warm welcome to everyone, Christian or not, sharing Jesus’ teaching from the Bible. We have a strong focus on serving our communities, particularly with children and youth work in our four wonderful primary schools and Stanchester Academy.

We offer a wide range of worship with most of our churches having a traditional 9.30am or 11am Communion or Morning Prayer service most Sundays.   For those who enjoy contemporary worship we have a very relaxed 4pm Café Church on the 2^nd Sunday of the month starting with refreshments and a time of fellowship before worship, sharing Jesus teaching, song and prayer.   Equally popular is our very informal, fun Family T@4 for young families at 4pm on the 4^th Sunday of the month.   All our churches are popular places for Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals.  

Finally, as part of the Church of England, our churches are open every day for anyone to visit to sit and pray or just enjoy their beauty and spiritual peace. Whatever your spirituality, do come and join us and find the love and peace of God which passes all understanding!

Although the Ham Hill Villages Benefice is currently in Vacancy (Meaning we are in the process of finding a new Rector), we have a strong Ministry Team (see Who’s Who) who continue to lead services and carry on the work of the church with the support of the churchwardens, PCCs and other volunteers.

Please check the Vacancy Page for more information

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HHV Services for May

Have you tried using the Diocese Prayer Calendar? It is available here to download as a PDF:

Prayer Calendar for May

Week of Prayer for Children and Young People July 6th – 10th

During the first week of July the Diocese is inviting churches and schools, families and individuals to pray for children and young people, as part of the 2026 Year of Prayer.

A Prayer Guide produced by the Go Team offers 5 daily themes encouraging us to pray for the children and young people in our churches, schools, wider communities and homes. The final day will be focused on those who lead, teach and support children and young people across our diocese. There are suggestions for prayer alongside Bible passage and a written prayer to use each day.

Find out more and download the prayer guide

Access resources for activities to use with children and young people here.

Especial Focus on Prayer

Bishop Michael invites us all to join in the Diocese of Bath and Wells Year of Prayer in 2026.

“Across our diocese of Bath and Wells I would like to make 2026 a year of especial focus on prayer. To be clear, this is not because I think we’re not praying. We are. But could we learn to pray better and pray more? I think we could. Might we do better if we sought to learn from each other? Almost definitely. Might focusing more on prayer shape us to become the people God has created us to be? Certainly. Could we become the answer to our prayers? In God’s good grace I hope so.”

Click here to find the Focus on Prayer Study Packs

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See more photographs in the Gallery

For all enquiries about Weddings, Baptisms and Funerals please contact gary.edmunds@hotmail.com – 07485789968

This benefice is a group of seven parishes, located around the famous Ham Hill, just south-west of Yeovil in South Somerset.

The  churches include some 120 regular worshippers who are committed to serve God and their communities.

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We are part of The Church of England
within the Diocese of Bath and Wells

‘I have come that they may have life in all its fullness’  (John 10 )