South Horrington is a relatively new village created in the late 1990s from the defunct Mendip Hospital that was closed in 1991.

The principal architect was George Gilbert Scott, who is better known for his designs of St Pancras Station and the Albert Memorial in London.

Newer houses have been built on the original kitchen gardens and orchards although the front grounds remain largely unaltered.

The nearby Maesbury Railway Cutting of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway exposes approximately 135 metres of strata[1] representing the middle and upper Lower Limestone Shales and the basal Black Rock Limestone.

He had a book of his poems called "Morning Musings" published which was about the local Mendip Hills and his family.