It is of particular importance to geologists because of the assemblages of fossils which it contains, the sedimentary features which it displays and the way it relates to other rocks of equivalent age in the close vicinity.

[6] The village is the site of the 14th-century Stoke sub Hamdon Priory which is a former priests' house of the chantry chapel of St Nicholas, which was destroyed after the dissolution of the monasteries.

The priory has been owned by the National Trust since 1946,[7] and designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.

Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

[10] It is also part of the Glastonbury and Somerton county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It shows various medieval carvings including abstract corbels, an astrological tympanum, and St Michael slaying the dragon.