Description
Binegar, a parish in Somersetshire, at the eastern end of the Mendip Hills, with a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint railway, 132 miles from London, and 5 NW of Wells. Post town, Bath; money order and telegraph office, Oakhill railway station. Acreage, 1197; population of the civil parish, 321; of the ecclesiastical, 316. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £267 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church was rebuilt in 1859. A horse fair is held on the Wednesday in Whitsun Week. Gurney Slade is a hamlet and a small village 1/2 a mile to the east.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
