Description
Aisholt or Asholt, a parish in Somerset, 8 miles from Bridgewater station on the Bristol and Exeter section of the G.W.R. It has a post office under Bridgewater; money order and telegraph office, Nether Stowey. Acreage, 875; population of the civil parish, 82; of the ecclesiastical, 127. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £223. The church is good. It contains two new stained glass windows, and a new organ was erected in 1893. Detached parts of this parish were amalgamated with Spaxton in 1885.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
